Figure 2
The horizontal bar chart is divided into two vertical sections, the top section labeled Urban Coping Strategies and the bottom section labeled Rural Coping Strategies. The Urban Coping Strategies section is further divided into three main subsections labeled from top to bottom as Emergency-Level Strategies, Crisis-Level Strategies, and Stress-Level Strategies. Each subsection contains a horizontal bar with a percentage value displayed to its right. The horizontal axis is labeled “Percentage” and ranges from 0 percent to 60 percent in intervals of 20 percent. The data for the Emergency-Level Strategies bars are as follows: Migration of any member of the household to other area: 43 percent. Engaging in begging to get food or money: 23 percent. Soliciting monetary or food assistance: 11 percent. Renting or mortgaging farmland: 22 percent. The data for the Crisis-Level Strategies bars are as follows: Withdrawing children from school to seek food and work: 56 percent. Eating reserve seed for the next season: 49 percent. Curtailing non-food expenditures on healthcare: 48 percent. Selling productive assets: 31 percent. The data for the Stress-Level Strategies bars are as follows: Foraging for wild food sources: 24 percent. Engaging in off-farm and pity trading: 34 percent. Utilising savings: 18 percent. Obtaining loans for food purchases: 31 percent. Consuming less nutritious and economical food options: 56 percent. Reducing meal size and eating less preferred and cheap foods: 45 percent. Selling household assets: 9 percent. The Rural Coping Strategies section is also divided into three main subsections labeled from top to bottom as Emergency-Level Strategies, Crisis-Level Strategies, and Stress-Level Strategies. Each subsection contains a horizontal bar with a percentage value displayed to its right. The data for the Emergency-Level Strategies bars are as follows: Migration of member of the household to other area: 13 percent. Involving in exploitative, dangerous, or life-threatening employment: 11 percent. Begging others (strangers) for money or food: 8 percent. Selling or mortgaging your house: 12 percent. The data for the Crisis-Level Strategies bars are as follows: Engaging in withdrawing one or more children from school: 16 percent. Reducing non-food expenses on health: 17 percent. Selling productive assets: 22 percent. The data for the Stress-Level Strategies bars are as follows: Gathering and consuming wild foods: 4 percent. Sending member of the household to eat elsewhere: 6 percent. Involving in petty trading: 11 percent. Moving children to less expensive school: 12 percent. Daily labourer: 21 percent. Spending savings: 23 percent. Borrowing money to cover food needs: 27 percent. Reducing meal size and eating less preferred and cheap foods: 35 percent. Selling non-productive household assets: 41 percent.The proportion of households who adopted coping strategies. Source: Authors’ computation, 2024