This paper presents data from the African Food Security Urban Network's 2008 baseline survey of Cape Town. This survey found that 80% of the sampled households could be classified as moderately or severely food insecure. In urban areas the main driver of food insecurity is not availability but...
Descriptive and inferential statistics were employed to analyze the collected data. The multi-index approach was used to assess the level of food insecurity among households. The results showed that nearly 89% had varying levels of food insecurity. The study also revealed that the majority of ...
Analysis of Food Insecurity Status of Urban Food Crop Farming Households in Cross River State, Nigeria: A USDA Approach 来自 钛学术 喜欢 0 阅读量: 25 作者:Ibok, Otu W.,Idiong, Idiong C.,Brown, Itoro N.,Okon, Iniobong E.,Okon, Uwemedimo E....
Urban agriculture may have a role to play in addressing urban food insecurity problems, which are bound to become increasingly important with the secular trend towards the urbanization of poverty and of population in developing regions. Our understanding of the importance, nature and food security imp...
Food overconsumption is being addressed increasingly in the policy agendas of many advanced economies to achieve sustainable consumption. Yet, few studies define and research sustainable food consumption, particularly in understanding socioeconomic and e
We use food microbial data and food retail data from food market surveys in major cities in Ghana to assess the safety of selected fresh food commodities and how retailers handle the food products they sell. Additionally, based on a two-wave balanced panel household data, we used fixed effects...
Although food security has been a focus of scholarly activity for over 40 years, interest in urban food security is fairly recent. In Sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, food insecurity has long been an "invisible phenomenon to policy makers" (Crush and Frayne, 2010) and is "scarcely recognized...
Urban-Rural and Regional Variability in the Prevalence of Food Insecurity: the Survey of the Health of Wisconsin BACKGROUND: Food insecurity is a public health concern estimated to affect 18 million American households nationally, which can result in chronic nutrition... N Guerrero,MC Walsh,KC Mal...
(PMBEJD, 2021), which tracks food price data from 44 supermarkets and 30 butcheries in Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town, Pietermaritzburg and Springbok in the Northern Cape. Furthermore, while the overall cost of the average household food basket has decreased slightly, the cost of core foods ...
Food access data was abstracted from the US Department of Agriculture. We analyzed the impact of FI, low food access (LA), and low food access with no vehicle (LANV) on the incidence of GSI using Poisson regression. We also compared high-risk zip codes for GSI, FI, LA, and LANV ...