GOVERNMENT has claimed that the country is food secure despite humanitarian organisations insisting that Zimbabwe is among nations in the global hunger zones. According to World Food Programme (WFP)’s food security and markets monitoring report released recently, at least 4,1 million people are in ...
from the Amazon found that communities having undergone expansion of market-oriented agriculture and deforestation had lower average household dietary diversity, greater reliance on purchased food and less wild food consumption (Blundo-Canto et al.,2020). Another study from Guatemala compared one communi...
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 ...
应急储备、加工和配送体系基本形成,应急供应网点遍布城乡街道社区,在应对地震、雨雪冰冻、台风等重大自然灾害和公共突发事件等方面发挥了重要作用。 - Grain reserves and emergency response systems are improving. The government has sufficient an...
Why are older seniors more food secure than the younger seniors? • What was the effect of the Great Recession on food insecurity? Gregory and Smith (2019)point out how the extent of food insecurity may be mismeasured in the United States. The errors arise because of the “salience effect...
President Joko Widodoannouncedthe expansion of the “food estate programme” on Sept. 23 as part of measures to secure domestic food supplies end Indonesia’s reliance on imported food crops. Among the regions expected to become agricultural centers are the provinces of North Sumatra ...
(Aliber & Hall,2012; Greenberg,2017; Greenberg,2010). South Africa has a high per capita income for a developing country and is food secure at the national level (Drimie & Ruysenaar,2010; McLaren et al.,2015). However, the country faces a higher burden of malnutrition than countries of...
As noted above, food security is a multi-dimensional concept and in principle all dimensions matter for determining if a population is food secure. The use of availabily as a proxy for the other dimensions is more appropriate when there is a high degree of correlation between availability and ...
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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 ...