Food insecuritySocial grantsWild foodsAgro-ecological gradientFood accessDietary diversityAs the world continues to face widespread food insecurity, achieving food security for all at all times is increasingly complicated. In South Africa, social grants and the use of wild foods have been reported as ...
The objective of this study was to evaluate some biological indicators of the soil quality of a dystrophic Yellow Latosol (Oxisol) under different land use systems in Areia, Para铆ba, Brazil. Soil samples were taken form the plow layer (0-20 cm) at six sites: native vegetation (moist ...
Food insecurity and environmental degradation pose significant threats to health outcomes in South Asia, necessitating effective policy interventions. Therefore, this study aims to examine the impact of food insecurity and environmental degradation on health outcome indicators amidst global inflationary shocks ...
access to foodnutrition insecuritypolicies and strategiesThis paper highlights food security situation and reflects on the challenges of food security in two sub-Saharan African countries: Nigeria and South Africa. Over the years, Nigeria and South Africa ha ve made several attempts to address the ...
reported food anxiety and insufficient food quality and quantity decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite a background of increased unemployment [58,59] and food insecurity in South Africa overall [28,5860]. Though surprising, data collected by the South African government during the pre- ...
food injustice in South Africa. Yet from the research with urban farmers it's clear that people do not know of the right to food, and don't see unequal access to nutritious food as an injustice. (2) AWhile there are frequent protests around access to jobs, education, housing, water ...
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Food insecurity is a major developmental problem in southern Africa and has been the focus of many NGO and state development initiatives. The seriousness of this problem is evidenced by the eradica...
However, we also find food insecurity to be associated with more frequent consumption of fruits and vegetables. In South Africa, diets with healthier substitutions for typical less healthy choices generally cost 10% to 60% more (Temple et al., Citation2011; Temple & Steyn, Citation2009). One ...
Such a variable is also likely to be highly correlated with food security (van der Berg et al., 2022). Second, while the social grant system is a critical poverty-reduction mechanism in South Africa, they do not exclude the need for other services, such as waste removal, health care and...