Using natural areas and empowering women to buffer food security and nutrition from climate shocks: Evidence from Ghana, Zambia, and Bangladesh

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dc.creatorCooper, Matthew
dc.date2018-03-29
dc.date2024-06-21T09:05:43Z
dc.date2024-06-21T09:05:43Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:43:38Z
dc.descriptionAs climate change makes precipitation shocks more common, policymakers are becoming increasingly interested in protecting food systems and nutrition outcomes from the damaging effects of droughts and floods (Wheeler and von Braun, 2013). Increasing the resilience of nutrition and food security outcomes is especially critical throughout agrarian parts of the developing world, where human subsistence and well-being are directly affected by local rainfall. In this study, we use data from Feed the Future datasets from Ghana, Zambia, and Bangladesh to examine the impact of precipitation extremes on food security as well as the role of natural land cover and women’s empowerment in creating resilience. We first model the effects of extreme rainfall on indicators of nutrition and food security, and then examine whether women’s empowerment and environmental land cover types can dampen the effects of rainfall shocks on these food security and nutrition outcomes. Our results find that there is a strong association between extreme precipitation and household hunger. Further, they suggest that in certain contexts land cover types providing ecosystem services can reduce household hunger scores, that empowering women can mitigate the effects of precipitation shocks, and that there may be an interactive effect between ecosystem service availability and women’s empowerment.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/146058
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/112912
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/146480
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceCooper, Matthew. 2018. Using natural areas and empowering women to buffer food security and nutrition from climate shocks: Evidence from Ghana, Zambia, and Bangladesh. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1717. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146058
dc.subjectrain
dc.subjectweather hazards
dc.subjectgender
dc.subjectflooding
dc.subjectclimate
dc.subjecthouseholds
dc.subjectland resources
dc.subjectstunting
dc.subjecthousehold food security
dc.subjecthunger
dc.subjectempowerment
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectforest land
dc.subjectdrought
dc.subjectnatural grasslands
dc.subjectscrublands
dc.subjectresilience
dc.subjectecosystem services
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectwomen
dc.titleUsing natural areas and empowering women to buffer food security and nutrition from climate shocks: Evidence from Ghana, Zambia, and Bangladesh
dc.typeWorking Paper

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