Coping Mechanisms of Rural Households During Food Shortages in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Author : Brent McCusker
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Famines
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Author : Brent McCusker
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Famines
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Author : Busisiwe Catherine Nkosi
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Page : 254 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 2005
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Author : W. C. J. Grobler
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Page : 7 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2018
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Several recent studies define food insecurity as a situation where the availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or the ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways is limited or uncertain. To overcome the challenges of food insecurity household's employ certain Coping Strategies to mitigate food shortages. A quantitative research method was deployed and a stratified random sample of 600 households in two low-income neighborhoods was included during a study conducted in 2015, to measure food insecurity, coping strategies and dietary diversity. The study found that households employed coping strategies to mitigate food shortage, but this leads to low dietary diversity. The study found that the Coping Strategy to “Buy only necessities”, “skip meals” and “purchase food on credit” is employed by a significant number of households. The study found that these coping strategies are associated with lower dietary diversity. This study aimed to increase the general understanding of food insecurity in low-income areas, and how coping strategies impact on dietary diversity in the context of food insecure households. The study concluded that although households may use coping strategies to mitigate the impact of food shortages it will directly impact on low dietary diversity with health consequences. In this context, there may be a desperate need in low-income neighborhoods to amend policy to include a more comprehensive approach that includes adequate information to households on health consequences of low dietary diversity.
Author : Mfusi Mjonono
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Page : 81 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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Author : Yergalem Beraki
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Page : pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Agriculture
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Author : Dadnew Eshete Tadesse
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Page : pages
File Size : 49,52 MB
Release : 1993
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Author : Simon Maxwell
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Food supply
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Author : Ian Scoones
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Agricultural development
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Author : Zipporah Engow Agheneza
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Page : 508 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Households
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Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 32,54 MB
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9251305722
New evidence this year corroborates the rise in world hunger observed in this report last year, sending a warning that more action is needed if we aspire to end world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. Updated estimates show the number of people who suffer from hunger has been growing over the past three years, returning to prevailing levels from almost a decade ago. Although progress continues to be made in reducing child stunting, over 22 percent of children under five years of age are still affected. Other forms of malnutrition are also growing: adult obesity continues to increase in countries irrespective of their income levels, and many countries are coping with multiple forms of malnutrition at the same time – overweight and obesity, as well as anaemia in women, and child stunting and wasting.