Social structure A study of food insecurity and rural development in the Gambia| The impact of rural weekly markets (Lumos) KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Gerad Middendorf PatrickSarjo SannehFood insecurity poses an enormous challenge and is a matter of extreme urgency for The Gambia, where more than ...
Insights gained from the study into the factors driving illiterate, ultra-poor farmer knowledge of available strategies are of use for multiple stakeholders helping to channel their efforts to reduce food insecurity in the studied region, The Gambia, other regions, which share similar socioeconomic ...
However, lack of food is one of the factors which affect health outcomes. Concerning this, the Food Research and Action Center noted that the social deter- minants of health, such as poverty and food insecurity, are associated with some of the most severe and costly health problems in a ...
Reports about food insecurity in SSA commonly discuss the complex and interrelated contributory factors, such as low production and yields, primitive tools, lack of credit and investment in infrastructure, government policies, and corruption. This neglects how the colonial system instituted economic depen...
In 2012, food insecurity is still a major global concern as 1 billion people are suffering from starvation, under-, and malnutrition, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has concluded that we are still far from reaching millennium development goal (MDG) number...
Applied at scale, it has the potential to transform productivity in countries like Ethiopia, hit by food insecurity.Read the interview with the 2019 Prize Winners The 2017 Prize went to Durum wheat breeder Dr Filippo Bassi of ICARDA for his development of a strain of heat-tolerant wheat,...
Small-scale producers contribute substantially to the food supply1,2,3, yet many experience food insecurity4. They are also highly vulnerable to climate change and environmental degradation5 with particular severity in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South and East Asia6. Farmer organizations (FOs) ...
(Minten and Barrett2008; Dethier and Effenberger2012; Larsen and Lilleør2014). Hence, the growth and development of the agriculture sector is considered to be the main pathway out of poverty and food insecurity and to have a pro-poor economic development in those areas (Diao et al.2010;...
(Trade and Markets Division, 2011). The typical rules of supply and demand are muddied by extreme global phenomenon and reliance on food made half a world away, and now the international market can contribute to severe food insecurity in many places in the world. Food self-sufficiency is ...
Food insecurity adversely affects human health, which means food security and nutrition are crucial to improving people’s health outcomes. Both food insecurity and health outcomes are the policy and agenda of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs