Can restoration of the commons foster resilience? A quasi-experimental comparison of COVID-19 coping strategies among rural households in three Indian states

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystems
cg.contributor.donorFoundation for Ecological Securityen
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.creator.identifierRuth Meinzen-Dick: 0000-0003-4782-3074
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134742en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number2056en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorHughes, Karlen
dc.contributor.authorPriyadarshini, Pratitien
dc.contributor.authorSharma, Himanien
dc.contributor.authorLissah, Sanoopen
dc.contributor.authorChorran, Tenzinen
dc.contributor.authorMeinzen-Dick, Ruth S.en
dc.contributor.authorDogra, Atulen
dc.contributor.authorCook, Nathanen
dc.contributor.authorAndersson, Kristeren
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-22T12:14:25Zen
dc.date.available2024-05-22T12:14:25Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143479
dc.titleCan restoration of the commons foster resilience? A quasi-experimental comparison of COVID-19 coping strategies among rural households in three Indian statesen
dcterms.abstractIndia has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the context of a larger quasi-experimental impact assessment, we assess the pandemic’s effects on coping behavior in 80 villages spread across four districts and three states (n=772). Half of these villages were targeted by a largescale common land restoration program spearheaded by an NGO, the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES). The other half are yet to be targeted but are statistically similar vis-à-vis FES’s village targeting criteria. Analyzing the results of a phone survey conducting eight to ten months into the pandemic and its associated lockdowns, we find that the livelihood activities of households in both sets of villages were adversely impacted by COVID-19. Consequently, most households had to resort to various coping strategies, e.g., distressed asset sales and reduced farm input expenditure. From the same mobile survey data, we further construct a Livelihoods Coping Strategies Index (LCSI) and find that households in villages targeted by FES’s common land restoration initiative score 11.3% lower on this index on average. While modest, this statistically significant effect estimate (p<0.05) is consistent across the four districts and robust to alterative model and outcome specifications. We find no empirical support that our observed effect was due to improved access to common pool resources or government social programs. Instead, we speculate that this effect may be driven by institutional factors, rather than economic, a proposition we will test in future work.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationHughes, Karl; Priyadarshini, Pratiti; Sharma, Himani; Lissah, Sanoop; Chorran, Tenzin; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Dogra, Atul; Cook, Nathan; and Andersson, Krister. 2021. Can restoration of the commons foster resilience? A quasi-experimental comparison of COVID-19 coping strategies among rural households in three Indian states. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2056. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134742.en
dcterms.extent37 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2021-11-11
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/134742en
dcterms.subjectmodelsen
dcterms.subjectandhra pradeshen
dcterms.subjectkarnatakaen
dcterms.subjectcovid-19en
dcterms.subjectinstitutionsen
dcterms.subjectexperimental designen
dcterms.subjectresilienceen
dcterms.subjectrestorationen
dcterms.subjectrajasthanen
dcterms.subjectimpact assessmenten
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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