Household Food Security Risks |
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Source of entittlement |
Types of risk |
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Natural |
State |
Market |
Community |
Other |
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Fixed proactive capital (land, machinary, tools, animals, farm buildings, trees, wells) |
Drought contamination, land degradation, fire, flooding |
Land and other asset, redistribution/ Confiscation |
Changes in costs of maintenance |
Appropriation and loss of access to common property resources |
Loss of land as a result of conflict |
Fixed non productive capital (dwelling,s granaries, cash saving, jewellery) |
Pests Animal disease |
Compulsory procurement, villageisation, welath tax |
Price shocks (ofr example, fails in value of jewellery and livestock. Rapid inflation |
Breakdown of sharing mechanisms (for example communal granaries) |
Loss of assets as a result of war. Theft |
Human capital (labour power, education, health) |
Epidemies, morbidity, mortality, disability |
Health expenditures, uses charges, restriction on labour migration |
Unemployment, falling real wages |
Breakdown of labour reciprocity |
Forced labour. Conscription. Mobility restrictions. Destruction of shools and clinics during war |
Income (crops, livestock, non-farm and non-agricultural activity) |
Pests, drought and other climatic events |
Cessation of extension services, subsidies on inputs or price support schemes. Tax increases |
Commodity price falls. Food price shocks |
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Marketing channels disrupted by war. Embargoes |
Claims (loans, gifts, social contracts, social security) |
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Reductions in nutrition programmes |
Rises in interest rates. Changes in borrowing capacity |
Loan recall. Breakdown of reciprocity |
Communities disrupted/displaced by war. |
Source: nfm |