Weather shocks and resilience to food insecurity: Exploring the role of gender and kinship norms
研究了马拉维农村地区性别化土地管理、亲属规范与干旱对农户粮食不安全韧性的交互影响，发现母系母居村庄的女性土地管理户在干旱时韧性更低，源于非农活动参与减少和牲畜损失更大。
Social and cultural institutions interact with environmental and individual factors, shaping resilience to external shocks. This study examines the interplay between gender-differentiated land management , kinship norms, and the effects of droughts on agricultural households’ resilience to food insecurity in rural Malawi. Female land-managed households in Matrilineal-Matrilocal villages show higher resilience with respect to other communities. However, in times of drought, these households turn out to be less resilient to food insecurity than their counterparts in other areas. In support of this result, we find evidence that, when faced with drought, female land-managed households in Matrilineal-Matrilocal communities exhibit lesser involvement in more lucrative non-farm activities and a larger decrease in livestock . The study highlights the need to consider socioeconomic, cultural, and environmental factors interactions when assessing resilience and advocates for intersectional policies enhancing women’s resilience.