Food security in South Africa
by ALTMAN, M, HART, T & JACOBS P, 2009Research Report. Centre for Poverty Employment and Growth, Human Sciences Research Council
The Human Sciences Research Council project on household food security in South Africa focused on measuring food security, the role of smallholder production, and the impact of gender and HIV and AIDS on food security. Some the key findings include:·There has been a dramatic fall in the experience of hunger since 2002, but under-nutrition remains…
read more >>Women in Urban and Peri urban-Agriculture: Sustaining Livelihoods in the Cape Metropolitan Area
by JACOBS, P and XABA, T, 2008Agenda, 22:78, 186-197
Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) has emerged as one of the responses to multiple livelihood challenges that poorer city dwellers face. Urban women engage in UPA to produce food for their households and increasingly also to earn an income from the sale of surplus output. This article uses evidence from a sample of farming projects…
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