Abstract Development and humanitarian agencies have rapidly embraced the concept of
resilience since the 2008 global financial and food price crises. We report the results of a …

Livestock contribute to the welfare of rural poor households in many ways. Livestock
products can be consumed, utilized, or sold for income. If consumed, livestock facilitate …

As development and humanitarian agencies increasingly advance the objective of 'building
resilience', three resilience measurement methods have come into especially widespread …

Agricultural producers in develo** economies are particularly vulnerable to exogenous
shocks due to limited access to the formal risk management mechanisms that are readily …

Improving household resilience is becoming one of the key focus and target of social
protection programs in Africa. However, there is surprisingly little direct evidence of the …

Policy makers search for strategies to promote resilience and mitigate the effects of future
climatic shocks. In this paper, we assess whether small regular cash transfers strengthen …

This paper examines how resilience capacity mediates or moderates the relationship
between weather shocks and household food security based on two waves of farm …

Productive asset grants have become an important tool in efforts to push the very poor out of
poverty, but they require labor to convert the asset into income. Using a clustered …

The adverse impacts of climate change have emerged as one of the primary threats to
human development; however, the climate change economic impact evaluation literature …

Develo**-country households are facing an increasingly challenging set of shocks—
including climate, economic, political, and health shocks—that in combination present a …