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Baseline
The quantified analysis of sources of food and income and of expenditure for households in each wealth group over a defined reference period.
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A spreadsheet that enables field teams to enter, check and analyse individual interview data in the field, and to analyze and summarize field data during the interim and final data analysis sessions.
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Baseline year
A type of reference year. Usually a normal year; neither especially good nor especially badSee Reference year.
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Coping strategies
Activities to which people resort in order to obtain food, income and/or services when their normal means of livelihood have been disrupted or other shocks/hazards decrease their access to basic needs.
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An analysis of how access to food and cash for each wealth group will be affected by a defined hazard, and of the extent to which other food or cash sources can be added or expanded, or non-essential expenditure reduced, to make up the initial shortages.
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Reference period
A defined period (typically 12 months) to which the baseline information refers, needed in order to analyze how changes in the future (in production, for example) can be defined in relation to the baseline. Typically chosen to reflect average or normal conditions.
See Reference year.
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Reference year
Also, Baseline year
A defined recent consumption year to which the livelihood baseline information refers. A reference year is needed in order to analyze how changes in the future (in production, for example) can be defined in relation to the baseline. A reference year is usually a 12-month consumption year that begins with the start of the consumption year(i.e., start of main harvest in cropping areas and main rains in pastoral areas). Ideally, a reference year represents a "typical" year, neither especially bad nor especially good. There may be acute food insecurity in a typical year.
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Seasonal calendar
A graphical presentation of the months in which food and cash crop production and key food and income acquisition strategies take place, also showing key seasonal periods such as the rains, periods of peak illness and the hunger season.
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Utilization
Physical utilization of food at the household level.
Biological utilization of food at the individual level.
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Vulnerability
People are vulnerable to particular hazards if they are expected to be unable to cope with a defined hazard; for example, they are vulnerable to crop failure if such a hazard is likely to reduce their access to food or cash below a defined threshold.
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Wealth breakdown
The process by which people within a livelihood zone are grouped together using local definitions of wealth and the quantification of their assets. The level of division depends on how the community view their society, and the purpose of the analysis.
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Wealth group
A group of households within the same community who share similar capacities to exploit the different food and income options within a particular livelihood zone.