Resilienceeffects for household food expenditure and dietary diversity in rural westernChina
2024
Xiao Han | Kaiyu Lyu | Fengying Nie | Yuquan Chen
Amore resilient livelihood is increasingly recognized as an efficient way toimprove vulnerable households’ food security and optimize their dietarydecisions. This study quantifies ruralhousehold resilience in western China, identifies the three pillars (absorptivecapacity, adaptive capacity, and transformative capacity) contribution toresilience, and then establishes the estimated Resilience Capacity Index (RCI)linked with food security and dietary diversity supported by the multipleindicator multiple cause (MIMIC) model. Results show that, despite geographical heterogeneity, the RCIconsistently increased from 2015 to 2021. Households with a higher RCI inheriting better capacity to deal withrisk and shocks are significantly and positively correlated with increasingfood expenditure and diversifying food choices. It can be because resilient households will allocate more money to foodexpenditure instead of saving for livelihood uncertainty. Thus, policymakers can provide moreincentives for rural households to adopt more dynamic and effective riskmanagement strategies. This, in turn,could yield positive spillover effects by preventing human capital lossassociated with dietary-related chronic diseases and mortality.
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