Poverty and Food Insecurity in Ghana The Link between Poverty and the Environment Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) Farming What are NTFPs? NTFPs and Poverty Reduction The Need for NTFPs Farming Case Study of Sefwi Wiawso District in the Western Region of Ghana The Study Location Impacts...
Food insecurity is associated with inadequate nutrition and increased rates of chronic disease. The primary aim of this study was to assess self-reported food insecurity and the perceived impact of COVID-19 on food security, in two regional districts of
We examined the prevalence, socioeconomic correlates, and moderation effect of gender on youth food insecurity. Our study used a cross-sectional design with data collected from 1,383 and 4,165 youth (aged 15 to 24 years) in South Africa and Ghana, respectively. We performed multiple imputation...
Food insecurity, on the other hand, "occurs when food systems are stressed so that food is not accessible, available, and of sufficient quality" (Beaumier and Ford, 2006: 196). In Ghana, the highest incidence of food insecurity is found in dry savannah areas, comprising the Upper East, ...
Time matters: a survival analysis of timing to seasonal food insecurity in semi-arid Ghana Article 14 March 2022 What Do We Know About Drought, Household Consumption and Seasonality: Evidence Review from Sub-Saharan Africa Article 14 September 2023 COVID-19, food insecurity and panic buying...
Food insecurity indicates the difficulty of constantly obtaining adequate food because of limited economic resources. Food insecurity challenges the desired health outcomes. Although extensive literature has examined the associations between food securit
4. Recommendations to improve consideration of food security outcomes in agricultural systems models 5. Concluding comments Declaration of Competing Interest Acknowledgements Appendix A. Household- and individual-level indicators of food insecurity with a focus on access Appendix B. Summary of the literatur...
Food safety is integral to food security and is increasingly becoming a significant concern in the urban areas of Africa, which are rapidly growing in population. In the case of Ghana, many urban households depend on traditional open-air markets for most of their food needs. However, these urb...
Even in high-income countries like Israel, children have been particularly vulnerable to the surge in food insecurity driven by quarantines, unemployment, and economic hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic. Under normal circumstances, School Feeding Program
food insecurity has persisted and is increasing. This is largely a legacy of the export-oriented colonial agricultural production systems, which procured scarce fertile land, water and labour to meet the needs of industries and consumers in the Global North. Colonialism also undermined the social con...