People are considered food secure when safe, nutritious food is available and accessible to them at all times. However, many communities around the world don’t have this access. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), a leading humanitarian organization, works with these communitie...
and that people and communities are healthy, empowered, and connected to local ecosystems through their food (Feenstra, 1997;Kloppenburg et al., 1996;Sundkvist et al., 2005). At the global scale, a food systems approach to food security is a holistic one, in that it invites the recognition...
Climate shocks threaten communities that rely on a single rainy season to grow crops and raise livestock. We exploit repeat surveys collected by the World Food Programme to quantitatively assess the year-to-year dynamics of household food security. Our methodology singles out the impact of climate ...
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Promoting secure access to nutritious foods is intrinsically linked to numerous facets of development, including aid quality, effective spending, innovative technology transfer, and the sharing of knowledge. Different aspects of development can contribute to enhancing food security through the following ways...
I do think all players in the value chain have to come together where there's some elements of economic gain so that they can continue to play their role. Secondly, the food system has to generate enough to feed the population, including the most marginalised communities. And third, the fo...
with secured storage. Emergency food reserves for 10-15 days are available in large and medium-sized cities and areas prone to price fluctuation. A network of emergency reserves, processing and distribution is in place, with ou...
However, not all households in formal areas are food secure and not all households in informal areas are food insecure. To probe in greater depth why there is such a range within the poor areas of Windhoek, this section uses the HFIAP measure of food insecurity to investigate the ...
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