Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique

Konferenzbeitrag

This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a portfolio model of activity choices in war-affected rural Sub-Saharan Africa. A case study using farm household survey data estimates the determinants of agricultural coping strategies in post-war Mozambique. Post-war coping strategies are expected to differ from pre- and mid-crisis coping strategies. War-affected households are forced to adopt very risky coping strategies that re-enforce their vulnerability. Households choose between market and non-market forms of exchange and even exit markets entirely. Post-war reconstruction policy should focus on re-capitalizing households and providing public goods.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Proceedings of the German Development Economics Conference, Kiel 2005 ; No. 7

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: agriculture ; households ; rural development ; war ; Mozambique ; Africa

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Brück, Tilman
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für Entwicklungsländer
• (where): Hannover
• (when): 2005

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19800
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET