Crop and livestock adjustments

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Figure 1 Coping Strategies Over Time
Crop and livestock adjustments
Diet change
Famine food use
Grain loan from kin
High
Low
Labor sales (migration)
Small animal sales
Cash/Cereal loan from merchants
Commitment of domestic resources
Reversibility
Productive asset sales
Farmland pledging
Farmland sale
Outmigration
Low
High
Time
Vulnerability (to food shortage)
Stage 3
Stage 4
Stage 1
Stage 2