TY  - THES
A1  - Treiber, Victor Oviedo
T1  - Rural poverty, vulnerability and food insecurity
BT  - the case of Bolivia
N2  - 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.
T3  - Potsdam Economic Papers - 3 
KW  - Wirtschaft Boliviens
KW  - ländliche Armut
KW  - Nahrungsmittelunsicherheit
KW  - Armutsbekämpfungsprogramme
KW  - Bolivian economy
KW  - rural poverty
KW  - food insecurity
KW  - poverty alleviation policies
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-71263
SN  - 978-3-86956-302-2
SN  - 2197-8069
SN  - 2197-8077
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -