Recovery without resilience? A novel way to measure nutritional resilience in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Uganda

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dc.contributor.authorBashaasha, Bernard
dc.contributor.authorZaharia, Sonia
dc.contributor.authorMasters, William A.
dc.contributor.authorGhosh, Shibani
dc.contributor.authorShively, Gerald E.
dc.contributor.authorGurung, Sabi
dc.contributor.authorManohar, Swetha
dc.contributor.authorThorne-Lyman, Andrew L.
dc.contributor.authorKabunga, Nassul
dc.contributor.authorWebb, Patrick
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-08T09:07:37Z
dc.date.available2022-10-08T09:07:37Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractPeople in fragile environments face various shocks that negatively affect their nutrition. Many governments put policy mechanisms in place to promote recovery of households after adverse shocks; however, resilience is difficult to measure because some apparent recovery could be the result of statistical randomness and reversion to trends. This paper demonstrates a new approach to measuring nutritional resilience in a population. As our starting point, we use the common definition of resilience as ‘recovery after decline’, but also require that the degree of recovery should exceed stochastic expectations. Using maternal and child nutrition data from Nepal, Bangladesh, and Uganda, we find that observed recovery is not always statistically significant and does not always satisfy this definition of resilience. We identify household and community factors that are correlated with measurable nutritional resilience, and recommend points of entry for policies designed to enhance resilience in resource-constrained settings.en_US
dc.identifier.citationZaharia, S., Masters, WA, Ghosh, S., Shively, GE, Gurung, S., Manohar, S., ... & Webb, P. (2021). Recovery without resilience? A novel way to measure nutritional resilience in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Uganda. Global Food Security , 31 , 100573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100573en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2021.100573
dc.identifier.urihttps://nru.uncst.go.ug/handle/123456789/4892
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherGlobal Food Securityen_US
dc.subjectResilienceen_US
dc.subjectNutritionen_US
dc.subjectDietsen_US
dc.subjectResource-constrained settingsen_US
dc.titleRecovery without resilience? A novel way to measure nutritional resilience in Nepal, Bangladesh, and Ugandaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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