Vulnerability to stunting in the West African Sahel
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Vulnerability to stunting in the West African Sahel. / Alfani, Federica; Dabalen, Andrew; Fisker, Peter; Molini, Vasco.
I: Food Policy, Bind 83, 2019, s. 39-47.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Vulnerability to stunting in the West African Sahel
AU - Alfani, Federica
AU - Dabalen, Andrew
AU - Fisker, Peter
AU - Molini, Vasco
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This paper presents a simple simulation framework for understanding and analyzing vulnerability to stunting. We utilize Demographic and Health Surveys merged with satellite data on climatic shocks. Children aged 0–5 years are grouped into three categories: consistently stunted, vulnerable, and non-vulnerable. The first group constitutes those who are stunted and will also be stunted in any hypothetical period. Non-vulnerable are those whose likelihood to be stunted is zero. The vulnerable face a probability between 0 and 1 of being stunted. The probability is calculated as the share of years in which the child would be stunted, given the village level distribution of weather shocks over the period 2000–2013. We provide estimates of vulnerability to stunting in Burkina Faso, Northern Ghana, Mali, Northern Nigeria, and Senegal by aggregating over villages, districts and countries.
AB - This paper presents a simple simulation framework for understanding and analyzing vulnerability to stunting. We utilize Demographic and Health Surveys merged with satellite data on climatic shocks. Children aged 0–5 years are grouped into three categories: consistently stunted, vulnerable, and non-vulnerable. The first group constitutes those who are stunted and will also be stunted in any hypothetical period. Non-vulnerable are those whose likelihood to be stunted is zero. The vulnerable face a probability between 0 and 1 of being stunted. The probability is calculated as the share of years in which the child would be stunted, given the village level distribution of weather shocks over the period 2000–2013. We provide estimates of vulnerability to stunting in Burkina Faso, Northern Ghana, Mali, Northern Nigeria, and Senegal by aggregating over villages, districts and countries.
KW - Climatic shocks
KW - Sahel
KW - Stunting
KW - Vulnerability
U2 - 10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.11.002
DO - 10.1016/j.foodpol.2018.11.002
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85056620824
VL - 83
SP - 39
EP - 47
JO - Food Policy
JF - Food Policy
SN - 0306-9192
ER -
ID: 214132911