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Rural poverty, vulnerability and food insecurity : the case of Bolivia

Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in Latin America. This study analyzes whether rural poverty increases the incidence of food insecurity and whether food insecurity perpetuates the condition of poverty among the rural poor in Bolivia. In order to achieve this aim, the risks that households face and the capacity of households to implement coping strategies in order to mitigate vulnerability shocks are identified. We suggest that efforts by households to become food secure may be difficult in rural areas because of poverty and the vulnerability associated with a lack of physical assets, low levels of human capital, poor infrastructure, and poor health; as well as the precarious regional environment aggravating the severity of vulnerability to food insecurity.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:Potsdam/oai:kobv.de-opus-ubp:7126
Date January 2014
CreatorsTreiber, Victor Oviedo
PublisherUniversität Potsdam, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät. Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Source SetsPotsdam University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText.Thesis.Bachelor
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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