COPING STRATEGIES AND RESILIENCE TO FOOD INSECURITY IN URBAN-RURAL CONTINUUM OF MOROGORO AND IRINGA, TANZANIA
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This study assessed whether food access insecurity strategies employed by households are similar along the urban-rural continuum. Equally, the study determined whether the above-mentioned strategies contribute to building households’ resilience to food access insecurity. A cross-sectional research design was employed whereby a sample of 279 households was drawn using a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based simple random. Data were collected using a structured questionnaire and were analysed mainly descriptively. Results show that the surveyed households use a number of coping strategies most of which vary significantly from one spatial entity to another. Also, findings revealed that these strategies do not improve households’ resilience to food access insecurity because they erode household’s own resilience.
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