Vulnérabilité des ménages à l’insécurité alimentaire et facteurs de résistance : Le cas du district de Farafangana à Madagascar

Abstract

Food security is a major issue in southern Madagascar. Using data from the Rural Observatories Network (ROR), this article examines the factors that contribute to ensuring household food security in the district of Farafangana, located in south-east of Madagascar. Our results underline the existence of factors of potentialities, beyond conjunctural effects. Among the factors of potentialities, the household savings and the endowments in rice growing area play a positive role. Child labour also contributes to the household food security, but more as a response to shock than as a structural logic. Finally, our study highlights the very distinction between resistance and resilience.