Food Security Definitions, Measurements and Recent Initiatives in South Africa and Southern Africa
by HART, T, 2009Research Report. Centre for Poverty Employment and Growth, Human Sciences Research Council
The international debate on food security has changed during the past thirty years, culminating in a more robust but nuanced understanding. No longer is the availability of food at national level sufficient; all people must be able to access enough nutritious food at all times, no matter how marginal the areas in which they reside….
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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…
read more >>Determinants of Income Mobility and Household Poverty Dynamics in South Africa
by WOOLARD, I. & KLAASEN, S. , 2004Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) Discussion paper series, No. 1030
Woolard and Klaasen analyse household income mobility dynamics among Africans in South Africa’s most populous province, Kwazulu-Natal, between 1993 and 1998. Compared to industrialized and most developing countries, mobility has been quite high, as might have been expected after the transition in South Africa. This finding is robust when measurement error is controlled for. When…
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