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    Modelling resilience to food insecurity Malawi case study
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-03) Fincham, Ashleigh; Thiart, Jeanette; Nieuwoudt, Isabelle; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences. Dept. of Business Management.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Defining \resilience to food insecurity" as a reference metric, allow governments and development partners to profile and rank a population in terms of their capacity to recover from shocks, and ultimately to evaluate programme impact. Quantifying a metric that captures multiple aspects of ones' livelihoods, is still largely under discussion, due to the complex nature of the term and contextual differences across a range of countries. Resilience is quantified following a mathematical approach that systematically describes recovery in terms of partial descriptors, called resilience metrics. Resilience to food insecurity metrics are derived from the trend of a composite food security indicator, the Food Consumption Score, which is simulated using mobile food security survey data collected in Malawi. The model results from the Malawi case study correspond to previous food security analyses, where the resilience metrics describing a populations' recovery capacity, supplement resilience to food insecurity analysis and may be used to inform food aid intervention. The resilience to food insecurity model, which may be applied in any context, is used to rank the regions in Malawi, according to the populations' quantified resilience to food insecurity metrics.