INTRODUCTION Wildlife is an important source of protein for many people in developing countries. Yet wildlife depletion due to overexploitation is common throughout the humid tropics and its effect on protein security, especially for vulnerable households, is poorly understood. This is problematic for both sustainable rural development and conservation management. METHODS This study investiga...

Vulnerability is an important aspect of households’ experience of poverty. Many households, while not currently “in poverty” recognize that they are vulnerable to events that could easily push them into poverty — a bad harvest, a lost job, an unexpected expense, an illness, an economic downturn. Most operational measures define poverty as some function of the shortfall of current income or cons...

this study focused on the income generating capacity of farm family’s own resources and examined the vulnerability to financial risk among the remote and peri-urban farming systems of imo state. primary data was collected using the farming and rural systems approach to randomly select and interview 120 households. descriptive statistics and mann whitney test were used in assessing between group...

Using a 5-year household panel data from Korea, this paper identifies the vulnerable households and their coping strategies during 1994-1998. We find that (i) larger households tend to be more protected from shortfalls in consumption; (ii) households with young children tend to decrease consumption of other items to achieve higher spending on children’s education; (iii) female-headed households...

Most climate related hazards in Bangladesh are linked to water. The climate vulnerable poor—the poorest and most marginalized communities living in remote villages along Bangladesh’s coastal zone that are vulnerable to climate change impacts and who possess low adaptive capacity are most affected by lack of access to safe water sources. Many climate vulnerable poor households depend on small is...

Background: Knowledge regarding distribution and determinants of household food insecurity focusing on vulnerable groups is utmost important for ensuring food security, which is every nation prime agenda. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence and determinants of household food insecurity among the tribal population of Purulia, West Bengal. Methods: A cross-sectional study was car...

This paper quantitatively investigates vulnerability to risk as a characteristic of dynamic poverty in low income countries. A household is defined as vulnerable to consumption risk if it has to drastically reduce its consumption level when hit by a negative income shock. To empirically operationalize the definition, descriptive analyses based on transition matrix are combined with regression m...

This study focused on the income generating capacity of farm family’s own resources and examined the vulnerability to financial risk among the remote and peri-urban farming systems of Imo state. Primary data was collected using the farming and rural systems approach to randomly select and interview 120 households. Descriptive statistics and Mann whitney test were used in assessing between group...