In this respect, it builds upon other recent studies of food consumption in Zambia. For example, the Urban Consumption Survey found that wheat had overtaken maize as the most important staple among urban consumers (except among the urban poor) and that urban diets were becoming more diverse. ...
Utilizing a food access indicator, such as per capita food expenditure, the household food insecurity access scale (HFIAS), household dietary diversity score (HDDS) and household food consumption score (HFCS), the decline in food security during the lean season (preharvest) has been detected [14...
Zambia’s nutrition-related policy agenda for a long time focused on addressing the historically dominant problem of food insecurity, hunger and micronutrient deficiencies [21, 22]. More recently, political priority has increased for multisectoral policy intervention to reduce stunting, demonstrating the ...
John's University in New York. As a nutritional anthropologist he has conducted fieldwork in Peru, Ecuador, Kenya, Zambia, South Africa, and in Native American communities across the U.S. His research interests include the paradox of childhood hunger and obesity, HIV/AIDS and ...
Food insecurity in vulnerable populations: coping with food price shocks in Afghanistan. Am. J. Agric. Econ. 96, 790–812 (2014). Article Google Scholar Asfaw, S., Carraro, A., Davis, B., Handa, S. & Seidenfeld, D. Cash Transfer Programmes for Managing Climate Risk: Evidence from ...
in alleviating poverty and food insecurity is undermined by endogeneity: those households that have livestock likely differ systematically from those that do not. We use unique panel data from the rollout of a Heifer International livestock program in Zambia to identify the causal effect of livestock...
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...
Approximately 1.3 million people in Kenya are currently facing crisis or worse levels of acute food insecurity. In Africa, the level of concern over the coronavirus outbreak is high in all countries studied, with 72 percent overall reporting that they are ‘very concern...
LUANDA, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- More than 500,000 people in Angola face food insecurity due to a severe drought hitting several provinces, a government official said here Tuesday. In a statement released to the press, Ermelinda Kaliengue, the head of the food security office of the Angolan Min...
The above international, regional, and national legal frameworks adopted to guarantee the right to food have not achieved their overarching aim of ensuring universal availability, affordability, accessibility, and sustainability of food in Africa as made evident by the prevalent food insecurity in the ...