Factors Affecting Rural Households’ Resilience to Food Insecurity in Niger

Niger faces many natural and human constraints explaining the erratic evolution of its agricultural production over time. Unfortunately, this is likely to cause a decline in the food supply. This study attempts to identify factors affecting rural households' resilience to food insecurity in Nig...

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Published in:Sustainability 2016-03, Vol.8 (3), p.181-181
Main Authors: Gambo Boukary, Aboubakr, Diaw, Adama, Wünscher, Tobias
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural production
Climate change
Emergency communications systems
Food security
Food supply
Households
International organizations
Population growth
Principal components analysis
Rural areas
Structural equation modeling
Sustainability
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Summary:Niger faces many natural and human constraints explaining the erratic evolution of its agricultural production over time. Unfortunately, this is likely to cause a decline in the food supply. This study attempts to identify factors affecting rural households' resilience to food insecurity in Niger. For this, we first create a resilience index by using principal component analysis and later apply structural equation modeling to identify its determinants. Data from the 2010 National Survey on Households' Vulnerability to Food Insecurity done by the National Institute of Statistics is used. The study shows that asset and social safety net indicators are significant and have a positive impact on households' resilience. Climate change approximated by long-term mean rainfall has a negative and significant effect on households' resilience. Therefore, to strengthen households' resilience to food insecurity, there is a need to increase assistance to households through social safety nets and to help them gather more resources in order to acquire more assets. Furthermore, early warning of climatic events could alert households, especially farmers, to be prepared and avoid important losses that they experience anytime an uneven climatic event occurs.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su8030181