This dataset corresponds to the baseline survey for the ProActing project (Global Network for Food Crisis Prevention) in the Grand Sud of Madagascar. The objective is to find out the situation of households before the project in terms of various indicators of food consumption, sources of income, access to basic services, ownership of assets (productive and non-productive), agricultural and fisheries production, adoption of innovative techniques, social safety nets, exposure to shocks and survival strategies. The questionnaire is based on the Short RIMA questionnaire, which collects the minimum amount of information necessary to calculate the resilience capacity index using the RIMA methodology.