2.3: Definition And Concept Of Household Coping Strategies
2.3. Definition and Concept of Household Coping Strategies
Households adopt and develop various coping strategies and sequential responses through which people used at times of decline in food availability. The term is used for individual actions aiming at survival in the face of disaster-induced food crisis or famine. Coping strategies are the bundle of poor people’s responses to declining food availability and entitlement in abnormal seasons or years (Davies, 1993). Degnew (1993) defined copping strategies as “a mechanisms by which households or community members meet their relief and recovery needs, and adjust to future disaster-related risks by themselves without outside support”. Similarly, Ellis (2000) defines coping strategy as ‘the …show more content…
In drought periods, for example, households may shift their labor resources from crop production to non-farm wage employment or sell-off small assets to ensure continued income. They may also adjust their consumption patterns, reducing their dietary intake to conserve food and relying more on loans or transfers and less on current crop production and market purchases to meet their immediate food needs. Over time, as crisis deepens, household responses become increasingly costly, leading to the loss of productive assets which can ultimately undermine future livelihoods and, again, their long-term food security status (Riely et al., …show more content…
Some of them are likely to be implemented only after the possibilities of certain other options have been pursued (Cutler and Stephenson, 1984). However, this depends on and varies with the level of households’ entitlement and vulnerability to crisis. Households adopt and develop diversified coping strategies and sequential responses through which people used at times of decline in food availability (Mulugeta, 2002).
Study done by Eshetu (2000) further revealed that the most common copping practice that are sequentially used during food crisis consisted of reducing number and size of meals, sale of small ruminants and draft oxen, consuming wild food, and borrowing of cash and/or food from better-off neighbors and/or relatives. Another less frequently used strategies were: postponing wedding and other ceremonies, sale of fire wood, with drawing children from school and eating toxic taboo
Households adopt and develop various coping strategies and sequential responses through which people used at times of decline in food availability. The term is used for individual actions aiming at survival in the face of disaster-induced food crisis or famine. Coping strategies are the bundle of poor people’s responses to declining food availability and entitlement in abnormal seasons or years (Davies, 1993). Degnew (1993) defined copping strategies as “a mechanisms by which households or community members meet their relief and recovery needs, and adjust to future disaster-related risks by themselves without outside support”. Similarly, Ellis (2000) defines coping strategy as ‘the …show more content…
In drought periods, for example, households may shift their labor resources from crop production to non-farm wage employment or sell-off small assets to ensure continued income. They may also adjust their consumption patterns, reducing their dietary intake to conserve food and relying more on loans or transfers and less on current crop production and market purchases to meet their immediate food needs. Over time, as crisis deepens, household responses become increasingly costly, leading to the loss of productive assets which can ultimately undermine future livelihoods and, again, their long-term food security status (Riely et al., …show more content…
Some of them are likely to be implemented only after the possibilities of certain other options have been pursued (Cutler and Stephenson, 1984). However, this depends on and varies with the level of households’ entitlement and vulnerability to crisis. Households adopt and develop diversified coping strategies and sequential responses through which people used at times of decline in food availability (Mulugeta, 2002).
Study done by Eshetu (2000) further revealed that the most common copping practice that are sequentially used during food crisis consisted of reducing number and size of meals, sale of small ruminants and draft oxen, consuming wild food, and borrowing of cash and/or food from better-off neighbors and/or relatives. Another less frequently used strategies were: postponing wedding and other ceremonies, sale of fire wood, with drawing children from school and eating toxic taboo