Harnessing Social Capital for Resilience to Livelihood Shocks: Ethnographic Evidence of Indigenous Mutual Support Practices among Rural Households in Eastern Ethiopia

Table 2

Community ranking of mostly frequently occurring shocks, field survey, 2015.

Most commonly reported shocks at community level (covariate shocks)	Ranking based on frequency of occurrence
Conflict shock (territorial conflict/tribal conflict shock) (political/social shock)	1
Drought and hunger (climatic shocks)	2
Pest and disease that affected animals (cattle skin disease, cattle TB, goat brain worm) (climatic shocks)	3
Pest and diseases that affected crops	4
Illness of household head, spouse, or another person (health shocks)	5
Death of household head, spouses, or another person (health shocks)	6
Difficulty in obtaining inputs or high input price fluctuation	7
Wedding expenses	8
Theft (crime shock)	9
Shortage of forage (climatic shock)	10
Policy shocks (land grab, mobility, and migration ban)	11