Does Resilience Capacity Reduce the Negative Impact of Shocks on Household Food Security? Evidence from the 2014 Floods in Northern Bangladesh

By Lisa C. Smith, T. Frankenberger. 2018

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Using data collected before and after the catastrophic flooding that took place in northern Bangladesh in 2014, this paper contributes to the growing evidence on the factors enhancing households’ resilience to shocks, or their “resilience capacities”. The analysis takes into account all three dimensions of resilience capacity—absorptive, adaptive, and transformative—as well as a broad range of specific capacities supporting them. In addition to disaster preparedness and mitigation, it finds suggestive evidence that the following capacities reduced the negative impact of the flooding on household food security: social capital, human capital, exposure to information, asset holdings, livelihood diversity, safety nets, access to markets and services, women’s empowerment, governance, and psycho-social capabilities such as aspirations and confidence to adapt. The paper highlights the importance of taking a comprehensive approach to understanding the determinants of resilience in future research, one that accounts for the full range of potential capacities. It also points to the value of taking a cross-sectoral, multi-intervention approach to on-the-ground resilience programing in Bangladesh and other developing-country areas that are increasingly vulnerable to climate shocks.

Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Safety Research, Soil Science

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A scoping review of the development resilience literature: Theory, methods and evidence (2021, methodology): “Figure 4 offers a deeper look at the geographical distribution of these empirical studies.16 Flood-prone Bangladesh and drought-prone Kenya have received extensive attention, 29 and 25 studies, respectively.”
The effects of violent conflict on household resilience and food security: Evidence from the 2014 Gaza conflict (2019, background): “Examples of resilience structures can be found in Béné et al. (2012), Béné et al. (2015), Ellis (2000), Dercon (2002), DFID (2011), Barrett & Constas (2014), and Smith & Frankenberger (2018).”
Resilience of local food systems and links to food security – A review of some important concepts in the context of COVID-19 and other shocks (2020, background): “In several cases, the difficulty of measuring resilience per se is avoided by considering the next stage along the pathway, and measuring the outcome of resilience, using food security or nutrition indicators (e.g. d'Errico and Pietrelli 2017; Smith and Frankenberger 2018).”