Environmental resources as ‘last resort’ coping strategies following harvest failures in Zimbabwe

• Published in: World development Vol. 127; p. 104741
• Main Authors: Pritchard, Rose, Grundy, Isla M., van der Horst, Dan, Dzobo, Nyaradzo, Ryan, Casey M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2020; Pergamon Press Inc
• Subjects: Africa; Climate change; Comorbidity; Coping; Coping strategies; Dependence; Drought; Environmental dependence; Environmental factors; Environmental restoration; Exposure; Harvest; Hazard assessment; Hazards; Households; Hyperinflation; Incapacitation; Landscape; Natural disasters; Nets; Resilience; Respondents; Restoration; Rural areas; Rural communities; Rural environments; Safety; Seasonal variations; Southern Hemisphere; Transformation; Vulnerability; Zimbabwe; Zimbabwe; Coping strategies; Environmental dependence; Zimbabwe; Hazards; Vulnerability; Africa

•We compare coping strategies used by Zimbabwean households in 2002 (harvest failure only) and 2008 (harvest failure and hyperinflation).•Dependence on environmental coping strategies was more common in 2008 than 2002.•Environmental coping strategies were the ‘last resort’ in 2008 because interactin...