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Total Pages : 464 pages
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Download or read book Agriculture, Food and Nutrition for Africa written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ahmed, Akhter
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
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Download or read book Changes in food insecurity in rural Bangladesh during COVID-19 written by Ahmed, Akhter and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: representative sample of rural Bangladeshi households. • With the onset of the pandemic, combined with the lockdown restrictions imposed from March through May 2020, moderate and severe food insecurity tripled to 45 percent. This was likely driven by income losses and difficulties accessing food because of shop closures. • By January 2021, the proportion of moderately or severely food insecure households had largely returned to pre-pandemic levels. The September-October 2021 survey showed no meaningful further change in the prevalence of moderate or severe food insecurity despite the strict national lockdown imposed in July-August 2021. • A different picture emerges when we include the prevalence of mild food insecurity. The proportion of households reporting any food insecurity (mild, moderate or severe) increased from the pre-pandemic average of 45.7 percent to 87.8 percent in June 2020, before declining to 70.9 percent in January 2021 and 68 percent in September-October 2021. Dimensions of food insecurity that include consuming less diverse diets, being unable to eat healthy/nutritious food, and above all, being worried about not having enough food increased dramatically at the start of the pandemic and have remained elevated. • Pre-pandemic, the majority of rural households in our sample were fully food secure; 18 months after the onset of the pandemic only 32 percent report no forms of food insecurity. • In the immediate months after the outbreak (June 2020), many rural households coped by reducing expenditures on non-food goods, electricity and other utilities, and health-related items. The use of these forms of coping mechanisms has subsequently declined. However, the proportion of rural households that purchased food on credit (69 percent in June 2020) has barely changed and in all surveys fielded since the start of the pandemic, more than half of surveyed households have borrowed money to buy food. The continued use of savings and the ongoing use of credit to purchase food is consistent with the elevated levels of worry about not having enough food. • A substantial share of rural households reported receiving cash or in-kind safety net support during the pandemic, mostly from government sources. • Continued and expanded support from safety nets may be important, as many rural households face ongoing food insecurity and are using unsustainable coping strategies.
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9251305722
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)
Download or read book The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2018 written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2018-09-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New evidence this year corroborates the rise in world hunger observed in this report last year, sending a warning that more action is needed if we aspire to end world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. Updated estimates show the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to prevailing levels from almost a decade ago. Although progress continues to be made in reducing child stunting, over 22 percent of children under five years of age are still affected. Other forms of malnutrition are also growing: adult obesity continues to increase in countries irrespective of their income levels, and many countries are coping with multiple forms of malnutrition at the same time – overweight and obesity, as well as anaemia in women, and child stunting and wasting.
Author : Headey, Derek D.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages : 13 pages
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Download or read book Poverty and food insecurity during COVID-19: Evidence from the COVID-19 Rural and Urban Food Security Survey (RUFSS) - June and July 2020 round written by Headey, Derek D. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a global economic crisis from which very few countries will be spared. As a result of few COVID-19 cases, a relatively short-lived lockdown, and economic momentum prior to COVID-19, Myanmar is one of the few developing countries that the World Bank (2020) forecasts will not go into recession in 2020 – a very modest expansion of just 0.87 percent is forecast. A Social Accounting Matrix multiplier analysis by IFPRI projected a 0.50 percent expansion under a fast economic recovery scenario, but a 2.00 percent contraction under a slow economic recovery scenario (Diao et al., 2020). The IFPRI study projects massive declines in GDP across a range of sectors during lockdown periods, including large increases in unemployment (5 million during the lockdown period) and declines in household income of 20 to 30 percent for April to June, albeit with fast recovery thereafter.
Author : Amare, Mulubrhan
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 43 pages
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Download or read book Impacts of COVID-19 on food security: Panel data evidence from Nigeria written by Amare, Mulubrhan and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper combines pre-pandemic face-to-face survey data with follow up phone surveys collected in April-May 2020 to quantify the overall and differential impacts of COVID-19 on household food security, labor market participation and local food prices in Nigeria. We exploit spatial variation in exposure to COVID-19 related infections and lockdown measures along with temporal differences in our outcomes of interest using a difference-in-difference approach. We find that those households exposed to higher COVID-19 cases or mobility lockdowns experience a significant increase in measures of food insecurity. Examining possible transmission channels for this effect, we find that COVID-19 significantly reduces labor market participation and increases food prices. We find that impacts differ by economic activities and households. For instance, lockdown measures increased households' experience of food insecurity by 12 percentage points and reduced the probability of participation in non-farm business activities by 13 percentage points. These lockdown measures have smaller impacts on wage-related activities and farming activities. In terms of food security, households relying on non-farm businesses, poorer households, those with school-aged children, and those living in remote and conflicted-affected zones have experienced relatively larger deteriorations in food insecurity. These findings can help inform immediate and medium-term policy responses, including social protection policies aiming at ameliorating the impacts of the pandemic, as well as guide targeting strategies of governments and international donor agencies by identifying the most impacted sub-populations.
Author : Tilksew Getahun Bimerew
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783848400522
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Food Insecurity and Its Determinants Among Rural Households written by Tilksew Getahun Bimerew and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achievement of food security in its totality continues as a challenge not only for developing countries but also for developed countries. The main objectives of the study were to examine the severity of household food insecurity and identify the determinants of household food insecurity in the district.Descriptive statistics, Binary Logit model, and Foster-Greer-Thorbecke index were used as methods of data analysis.Based on the result of descriptive statistics and Foster-Greer-Thorbecke index; 57 percent of the households were found unable to meet the minimum requirement.Similarly, the index identified the food insecurity gap and severity of to be 20 and 6 percent respectively.A binary logit model identified five out of ten variables included in the model as significant. Size of cultivated land, educational status of the household head, annual farm income, use of improved variety, and insect and pest infestation problem were found significant determinants of household food insecurity in the district. The results of econometric analysis made it clear that these determinants were the major determinant of household food insecurity in the district.
Author : Manfred Zeller
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896295036
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Rural Finance for Food Security for the Poor written by Manfred Zeller and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broader role for rural finance for food security. The saving and borrowing behavior of the food-insecure poor. Innovative rural finance for the poor: a food security perspective. Conclusions for research and policy.
Author : Michelle Johnson
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Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (611 download)
Download or read book Measurement of Household Food Security in Rural Ecuador written by Michelle Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Food insecurity is defined as "access by all people, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life." In a study with 54 rural households in rural Ecuador the relationship between household food security and household food stores was examined. In four communities participating in PLAN (Community Planning for Sustainable Livestock-based Forested Ecosystems) in the province of Quijos, a survey including an adapted US Food Security Survey Module and a household food shelf-inventory questionnaire was administered. A significant inverse correlation was found between the household food insecurity score and total number of food items present in the household at the time of the survey. As food insecurity increased the amount of household food supply decreased, affecting especially some food groups. Multiple regression analysis identified a significant relationship between the total number of foods, oils, vegetables, and processed products with food insecurity status. Mothers' educational level also correlated negatively with food insecurity level. As the number of years of school attendance increased the severity of food insecurity decreased. Community location was also associated with severity of food insecurity. Rasch modeling showed that the US Food Security Survey Module (FSSM) used in this study reflect the actual conceptual framework of food insecurity as a managed process where children are spared the effects of hunger even when it is already affecting adults. My findings show that the proposed adapted US Food Security Survey Module might be useful to monitor and evaluate interventions aiming an improvement in the quantity and the variety of food items. Funded by: USAID Global Livestock CRSP and Gifford Center.
Author : Misgina Asmelash
Publisher : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783846544532
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (445 download)
Download or read book Rural Household Food Security Status and Its Determinants written by Misgina Asmelash and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study was carried out to assess rural household food security status and its determinants in Laelaymychew Woreda Central Zone of Tigirai and was conducted in three rural kebeles selected through two-step random sampling. The required data was collected from 125 randomly selected rural households. Based on the survey data result, an effort was made to categorized the sample households in to food insecure and food secure groups whether there exists a mean difference between the two groups with respect to the different demographic and socio-economic aspects. Accordingly, the result of the study showed that 39(31.2%) and 86(68.8%) of sample households were found to be food secure and food insecure, respectively. In addition, the model results revealed that total cultivated land holding size, total livestock holding, total annual income per AE and use of chemical fertilizer were found positively related and statistically significant to food security status in the study area. Similarly, family size of the households was also found negatively related and statistically significant to food security status of the rural households.
Author : Kirui, Oliver K.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Food security and social assistance in Sudan during armed conflict: Evidence from the first round of the Sudan Rural Household Survey (November 2023–January 2024) written by Kirui, Oliver K. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2024-07-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conflict in Sudan has severely impacted the food security landscape in rural areas, with profound implications for household diets, coping strategies, and overall food insecurity levels. Data from a national rural household phone survey conducted between October 2023 and January 2024 highlights the dire food consumption patterns, the prevalence of food insecurity, and the reliance on reduced coping strategies among the rural population of Sudan. As of the end of 2023, nearly 40 percent of rural households were consuming inadequate diets, with West Kordofan, South Kordofan, North Darfur, East Darfur, and Sennar states experiencing the highest prevalence of poor food consumption (34, 33, 29 and 24 percent, respectively). The primary components of diets were cereals and oils, with nutrient-rich foods, such as meats and fruits, consumed less frequently, highlighting a critical gap in nutritional adequacy. The situation has resulted in households across Sudan resorting to a range of coping strategies to try to meet their food needs, such as buying less preferred or less expensive food (on average 4 days out of 7), limiting portion sizes, or reducing the number of daily meals. The five coping mechanisms that were examined in the analysis were found to be implemented with approximately similar frequencies across rural Sudan. However, the situation was particularly dire in West Darfur, South Kordofan, and Khartoum, the states recording the highest prevalence of consumption of inadequate diets and the highest reduced Coping Strategy Index (rCSI) scores.
Author : K. Uma Maheswari
Publisher : Discovery Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788171415199
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Poverty, Household Food Security, and Nutrition in Rural Areas written by K. Uma Maheswari and published by Discovery Publishing House. This book was released on 2000 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing food security in a predominantly rural economy such as India, requires an understanding not only of how agricultural policies of food supply and incomes but also how households acquire food and cope with insecurity of food. Many economists regard income as the main indicator of welfare, but other planners maintain that food consumption, health and nutrition of household members are also important in defining a household s standard of living. The main concerned of this study is to trace the pathways from economic and social policies to food security and ultimately to nutrition. Contents: Introduction, Review of Literature, Materials and Methods, Results and Discussion, Summary and Conclusions.
Author : Headey, Derek D.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Poverty and food insecurity during COVID-19: Telephone survey evidence from mothers in rural and urban Myanmar written by Headey, Derek D. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myanmar had one of the lowest confirmed COVID-19 caseloads in the world in mid-2020 and was one of the few developing countries not projected to go into economic recession. However, macroeconomic projections are likely to be a poor guide to individual and household welfare in a fast-moving crisis that has involved disruption to an unusually wide range of sectors and livelihoods. To explore the impacts of COVID-19 disruptions on household poverty and coping strategies, as well as maternal food insecurity experiences, this study used a telephone survey conducted in June and July 2020 covering 2,017 mothers of nutritionally vulnerable young children in urban Yangon and rural villages of Myanmar’s Dry Zone. Stratifying results by location, livelihoods, and asset-levels, and using retrospective questions on pre-COVID-19 incomes and various COVID-19 impacts, we find that the vast majority of households have been adversely affected from loss of income and employment. Over three-quarters cite income/job losses as the main impact of COVID-19 – median incomes declined by one third and $1.90/day income-based poverty rose by around 27 percentage points between January and June 2020. Falling into poverty was most strongly associated with loss of employment (including migrant employment), but also with recent childbirth. The poor commonly coped with income losses through taking loans/credit, while better-off households drew down on savings and reduced non-food expenditures. Self-reported food insecurity experiences were much more common in the urban sample than in the rural sample, even though income-based and asset-based poverty were more prevalent in rural areas. In urban areas, around one quarter of respondents were worried about food quantities and quality, and around 10 percent stated that there were times when they had run out of food or gone hungry. Respondents who stated that their household had lost income or experienced food supply problems due to COVID-19 were more likely to report a variety of different food insecurity experiences. These results raise the concern that the welfare impacts of the COVID-19 crisis are much more serious and widespread than macroeconomic projections would suggest. Loss of employment and casual labor are major drivers of increasing poverty. Consequently, economic recovery strategies must emphasize job creation to revitalize damaged livelihoods. However, a strengthened social protection strategy should also be a critical component of economic recovery to prevent adversely affected households from falling into poverty traps and to avert the worst forms of food insecurity and malnutrition, particularly among households with pregnant women and young children. The recent second wave of COVID-19 infections in Myanmar from mid-August onwards makes the expansion of social protection even more imperative.
Author : Sergio Gomez y Paloma
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030421481
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security written by Sergio Gomez y Paloma and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book discusses the current role of smallholders in connection with food security and poverty reduction in developing countries. It addresses the opportunities they enjoy, and the constraints they face, by analysing the availability, access to and utilization of production factors. Due to the relevance of smallholder farms, enhancing their production capacities and economic and social resilience could produce positive impacts on food security and nutrition at a number of levels. In addition to the role of small farmers as food suppliers, the book considers their role as consumers and their level of nutrition security. It investigates the link between agriculture and nutrition in order to better understand how agriculture affects human health and dietary patterns. Given the importance of smallholdings, strategies to increase their productivity are essential to improving food and nutrition security, as well as food diversity.
Author : Lorenzo Cotula
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1780323123
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Great African Land Grab? written by Lorenzo Cotula and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past few years, large-scale land acquisitions in Africa have stoked controversy, making headlines in media reports across the world. Land that only a short time ago seemed of little outside interest is now being sought by international investors to the tune of hundreds of thousands of hectares. Private-sector expectations of higher world food and commodity prices and government concerns about longer-term national food and energy security have both made land a more attractive asset. Dubbed ‘land grabs’ in the media, large-scale land acquisitions have become one of the most talked about and contentious topics amongst those studying, working in or writing about Africa. Some commentators have welcomed this trend as a bearer of new livelihood opportunities. Others have countered by pointing to negative social impacts, including loss of local land rights, threats to local food security and the risk that large-scale investments may marginalize family farming. Lorenzo Cotula, a leading expert in the field, casts a critical eye over the most reliable evidence on this hotly contested topic, examining the implications of land deals in Africa both for its people and for world agriculture and food security.
Author : Mesay Kebede Duguma
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643906080
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Households' Food Insecurity and Coping Strategies in the Face of Vulnerability written by Mesay Kebede Duguma and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws attention to the livelihood and food security situation of women farmers, a topic largely neglected by academic studies. It elucidates in a detailed empirical examination, the impact of informal social institutions on food security and coping strategies of these households in the Meskan district of southern Ethiopia. The area is environmentally and socially challenged. The results develop an understanding of the gender dimension of food (in)security and present important implications for public policy. (Series: Spectrum. Berlin Series on Society, Economy and Politics in Developing Countries / Spektrum. Berliner Reihe zu Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik in Entwicklungslandern - Vol. 110) [Subject: Sociology, African Studies, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Agricultural Studies]
Author : Heidhues, Franz
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896296512
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Development Strategies and Food and Nutrition Security in Africa written by Heidhues, Franz and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2004 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliography p. 41-48.
Author : Libuse Valesova
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Download or read book The Nexus Between Food Insecurity and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Rural Households in Western Indonesia Identified with Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance's Approach by USAID. written by Libuse Valesova and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigated correlation and regression analyses designed to asses the respective relationships between the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale/Prevalence (HFIAS/HFIAP) as a measure of food access, the Household Dietary Diversity Score, the Months of Adequate Household Food Provisioning (MAHFP) as a measure of food stability and (i) gender, (ii) education level, (iii) household income and (iv) agricultural strategies of households in North Sumatra province. Cross-sectional survey was conducted in Tobasa and Samosir Regency and its purpose was (1) to assess the food security status of rural households (N = 192), (2) to identify the influence of selected factors on their food security condition and (3) to deliver outcomes which might play an important role in establishing appropriate policies and intervention strategy to prevent and reduce food insecurity. Due to the proven applicability in many studies, Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance's method was implemented for the comprehensive household food security analysis. The findings showed that 51.6% (n = 99) households were considered as moderately or severely food insecure, 18.8% of the sample as mildly food insecure (n = 36) and less than a third (n = 57) of households was food secure. Further analysis investigated the correlation between household food security status and selected variables. The results highlighted the role of rural education, agriculture extension services, creation of employment opportunities and improved dietary diversity in reducing household food insecurity.
