Coping and Resilience during the Food, Fuel, and Financial Crises

This article aggregates qualitative field research from sites in 17 developing countries to describe crisis impacts and analyse how people coped with the food, fuel, and financial crises during 2008–2011. The research uncovered significant hardships behind the apparent resilience, with widespread re...

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Main Authors:	Heltberg, Rasmus, Hossain, Naomi, Reva, Anna, Turk, Carolyn
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2013
Subjects:	food fuel
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13386

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spelling	okr-10986-133862021-04-23T14:03:08Z Coping and Resilience during the Food, Fuel, and Financial Crises Heltberg, Rasmus Hossain, Naomi Reva, Anna Turk, Carolyn food fuel This article aggregates qualitative field research from sites in 17 developing countries to describe crisis impacts and analyse how people coped with the food, fuel, and financial crises during 2008–2011. The research uncovered significant hardships behind the apparent resilience, with widespread reports of food insecurity, debt, asset loss, stress, and worsening crime and community cohesion. There were important gender and age differences in the distribution of impacts and coping responses, with women often acting as shock absorbers. The more common sources of assistance were family, friends, community-based and religious organisations with formal social protection and finance less important. The traditional informal safety nets of the poor became depleted as the crisis deepened, pointing to the need for better formal systems for coping with future shocks. 2013-05-13T15:34:04Z 2013-05-13T15:34:04Z 2012-12-20 Journal Article Journal of Development Studies 0022-0388 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13386 en_US Journal of Development Studies; CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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description	This article aggregates qualitative field research from sites in 17 developing countries to describe crisis impacts and analyse how people coped with the food, fuel, and financial crises during 2008–2011. The research uncovered significant hardships behind the apparent resilience, with widespread reports of food insecurity, debt, asset loss, stress, and worsening crime and community cohesion. There were important gender and age differences in the distribution of impacts and coping responses, with women often acting as shock absorbers. The more common sources of assistance were family, friends, community-based and religious organisations with formal social protection and finance less important. The traditional informal safety nets of the poor became depleted as the crisis deepened, pointing to the need for better formal systems for coping with future shocks.
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author	Heltberg, Rasmus Hossain, Naomi Reva, Anna Turk, Carolyn
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title	Coping and Resilience during the Food, Fuel, and Financial Crises
title_short	Coping and Resilience during the Food, Fuel, and Financial Crises
title_full	Coping and Resilience during the Food, Fuel, and Financial Crises
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Coping and Resilience during the Food, Fuel, and Financial Crises

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