Ginny Morrow will be presenting at the conference on Child Poverty in Time of Crisis at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg on 25 and 26 August 2016.
The aim of the conference is: (1) to discuss how different crises (like the recent economic downturn, political instability, natural disasters or war) affect child poverty; (2) to reveal the consequences such crises have on children living in poverty and their families as well as to show how they respond; and, finally, (3) to provide suggestions for international, national and local policy designs for the reaction to such crises. The conference will bring together empirical and theoretical papers and in discussing the normative and ethical issues related to child poverty and policymaking.
Food and Hunger in Children’s Everyday Lives in Rural Ethiopia: Evidence from Young Lives
This paper explores how a combination of different crises – economic downturn, increased food prices, and drought - affected children’s life-course trajectories in rural Ethiopia, drawing on four rounds of longitudinal qualitative research with 50 children collected from 2007 to 2014 as part of Young Lives. The paper will explore the following:
- how food and hunger affects children over time, influencing decision-making about time-use and work, and movement of children between households, including early marriage;
- children’s descriptions of the quantity and quality of meals and the linkages to economic ‘shocks’ such as illness, death, loss of employment, drought and inflation;
- implications for children’s diets of social protection schemes aimed at alleviating poverty, such as the Productive Safety Net Programme (which provides cash or food grain for work).
Qualitative analysis will be contextualised within descriptive statistics illustrating access to public programmes and dietary diversity from the 2013 Young Lives survey. Theoretically, the paper conceptualises childhood poverty holistically/multi-dimensionally, emphasising the interrelatedness of domains of children’s lives, and children’s and young people’s constrained agency in resource-poor settings.
Ginny Morrow will be presenting at the conference on Child Poverty in Time of Crisis at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg on 25 and 26 August 2016.
The aim of the conference is: (1) to discuss how different crises (like the recent economic downturn, political instability, natural disasters or war) affect child poverty; (2) to reveal the consequences such crises have on children living in poverty and their families as well as to show how they respond; and, finally, (3) to provide suggestions for international, national and local policy designs for the reaction to such crises. The conference will bring together empirical and theoretical papers and in discussing the normative and ethical issues related to child poverty and policymaking.
Food and Hunger in Children’s Everyday Lives in Rural Ethiopia: Evidence from Young Lives
This paper explores how a combination of different crises – economic downturn, increased food prices, and drought - affected children’s life-course trajectories in rural Ethiopia, drawing on four rounds of longitudinal qualitative research with 50 children collected from 2007 to 2014 as part of Young Lives. The paper will explore the following:
- how food and hunger affects children over time, influencing decision-making about time-use and work, and movement of children between households, including early marriage;
- children’s descriptions of the quantity and quality of meals and the linkages to economic ‘shocks’ such as illness, death, loss of employment, drought and inflation;
- implications for children’s diets of social protection schemes aimed at alleviating poverty, such as the Productive Safety Net Programme (which provides cash or food grain for work).
Qualitative analysis will be contextualised within descriptive statistics illustrating access to public programmes and dietary diversity from the 2013 Young Lives survey. Theoretically, the paper conceptualises childhood poverty holistically/multi-dimensionally, emphasising the interrelatedness of domains of children’s lives, and children’s and young people’s constrained agency in resource-poor settings.