Sara Lazzaroni|Natascha Wagner
Misfortunes never come singly: Structural change, multiple shocks and child malnutrition in rural Senegal
University of Bologna|International Institute of Social History|Erasmus University Rotterdam
study considers two pronounced shocks senegalese subsistence farmers struggle namely increasing purchase prices droughts assess relationship selfreported shocks child health multishock approach account concomitance adverse events natural biological economic health sphere employ unique farming household panel dataset containing information children living poor rural households eight regions senegal 2009 2011 account structural changes occurring survey periods due large scale national nutrition enhancement program zooming micro level demonstrate senegal sahelian country mainly reliant subsistence agriculture vulnerable climate variability international price developments according conservative estimates occurrence drought explains 25 pooled weightforage standard deviation income losses 31 multishock analysis reveals shocks perceived severe 2011 droughts explaining 44 standard deviation child health increased prices 21 yet concomitance droughts increased prices structural change ie nutrition enhancement program indicates health children experiencing shocks 2011 improved argue results driven increase rural household income theoretically outlined agricultural household model thus adequate policy responses shocks depend nature also concomitance hazardous events