Download or read book Households Food Insecurity and Coping Strategies in the Face of Vulnerability written by Mesay Kebede Duguma and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws attention to the livelihood and food security situation of women farmers, a topic largely neglected by academic studies. It elucidates in a detailed empirical examination, the impact of informal social institutions on food security and coping strategies of these households in the Meskan district of southern Ethiopia. The area is environmentally and socially challenged. The results develop an understanding of the gender dimension of food (in)security and present important implications for public policy. (Series: Spectrum. Berlin Series on Society, Economy and Politics in Developing Countries / Spektrum. Berliner Reihe zu Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik in Entwicklungslandern - Vol. 110) [Subject: Sociology, African Studies, Women's Studies, Gender Studies, Agricultural Studies]

Download or read book Gender Household Food Security and Coping Strategies written by Julie Koch Laier and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Differential Risk Factors and Coping Strategies Among Food Insecure Households in Upstate New York written by Candace Renee Young and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Household Food Insecurity Coping Strategies and Policy Options written by Tesfaye Kumbi Chakiso and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the world of today, food insecurity is a widespread phenomenon despite the fact that food security is considered as a basic human right. As Walter rightly put it, human rights begin with breakfast. Food insecurity is seen as an evil experienced at an individual level. It is becoming the most critical issue in the developing world and most critical issue of the development agenda.Food insecurity is a major constraint to the development of many African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries. It is estimated that more than one-third of the population does not have access to proper or sufficient food for an active and healthy life. Chronic food insecurity is due to the unavailability of food or lack, of resources to acquire it. Transitory food insecurity is a temporary decline in a household's food supply due to instability in food production, prices or market availability, or household incomes. Food security is sometimes equated with food self-sufficiency, either at household or national levels.Food security can be achieved through breaking the ring of poverty /food insecurity such as unaccess to input, information, technology, credit, markets, basic services and income generation

Download or read book Barriers and Coping Strategies Among Women in a Food Desert written by Renee Holt and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This qualitative research focused on how women living in a neighborhood identified as a "food desert" experience food insecurity, and to learn what coping strategies are used in response. The closure of the full-size Albertsons grocery store centrally located in the Birchwood neighborhood on Northwest Avenue led to the identification of the area as a food desert by the USDA in 2016. Food deserts, neighborhoods with limited options for buying fresh food, are created through socio-economic and spatial inequalities that impact food access. In food deserts, fresh food access may be severely limited, which leads communities to organize in order to create solutions to address food access and inequality. Analyzing food access through the transformative paradigm, a social justice lens for conducting research, allowed for a closer look at how gender is tied to food insecurity, as women are one marginalized group at a higher risk of experiencing food insecurity. This study was completed through semistructured interviews with 12 self-identified women from Birchwood. Interviews were transcribed and inductively analyzed for common themes. The results of this study showed that many residents face physical and financial barriers to food in the neighborhood and use a variety of coping strategies leading to negative physical and mental health impacts when food accessibility is low. Participants also discussed solutions to increase food security, including more stores, increased public transportation and attention to the citywide affordable housing crisis

Download or read book An Examination of Household Food Security s Measurement Report and Experience by Gender written by Jaime Foster and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food insecurity, defined as the inability to access sufficient food for an active, healthy life, affects 14.3 percent of United States. Food Security (FS) has been measured annually using the US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Household Food Security Module (HFSM) since the 1990s; however, responses to this self-report measure may vary by household member. Thus, this study aims to 1) determine how gender is related to differences in interpretation and report of FS using the HFSM; 2) determine if gender is related to interpretation of terms relevant to FS measurement, and; 3) pilot test a qualitative technique novel to the field of nutrition. Twenty-five pairs of low-income, food-insecure parents of 2.5-10 year-olds were recruited to participate in one-on-one interviews to assess FS, interpretation of the USDA’s 18-item HFSM, and complete related questionnaires. Intraclass correlations and regressions were conducted to compare the responses of each dyad. Mothers’ and fathers’ report of FS was significantly related (B=.40, p=.02), some items had poor interrater reliability between parents. Further, mothers’ report of coping strategies was significantly associated with report of household food inventory (B=0.865, p=0.03). Qualitative analysis revealed that gender was related to interpretation of key terms relevant to FS measurement including â€household,†â€balanced meal,†and â€worry.†Discourse Analysis allowed researchers to garner new understanding about gender’s influence on communication patterns. Overall, this research identifies potential shortcomings of the HFSM such as underestimating the efficacy of the national safety net, fathers struggling to feed their families and, related insufficient resources allocated to underserved families.

Download or read book Household Food Security written by Simon Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document reviews core concepts in household food security (HFS), provides an overview of indicators and data collection methods, and includes an annotated bibliography on concepts and definitions, illustrating the inter-relationship among HFS, nutrition, livelihood security and long-term sustainability.

Download or read book Household Food Security during Armed Conflicts Livelihood Coping Strategies in the Bamenda Municipality of the Northwest Region of Cameroon written by Fuh George Cheo and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2023-08-23 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Study from the year 2023 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, , language: English, abstract: Food insecurity caused by conflict calls for sound evidence-based policymaking and interventions. The main objective of this study is to understand the impact of the ongoing armed conflict on household food security, and the sustainability of livelihood coping strategies employed in the Bamenda Municipality of the Northwest region of Cameroon by splicing the Food Insecurity Experience Scale and the Sustainable livelihood framework. Despite enormous multiform humanitarian food aid interventions, the situation is far from improving. It is therefore not clear to what extend the armed conflict has affected household food security in the NW region of Cameroon as a whole and the Bamenda municipality. The effectiveness of livelihood responses in solving the problem cannot also be ascertained. Understanding the relationship between armed conflict and food insecurity (access and availability), associated perceptions, coping strategies and livelihood responses is therefore critical in managing food insecurity across the bord. Although research works on the relationship between food security and violent conflict have steadily increased, it is still an emerging research theme among economists, political scientists, and development researchers to look at livelihood responses and food security in a volatile environment, especially in the Bamenda municipality of the Northwest Region of Cameroon which has been experiencing an ongoing arm conflict since 2017. The main research question of this study is: To what extend has the ongoing socio-political crisis impacted on household food security and what is the sustainability of the livelihood coping strategies being employed in the Bamenda Municipality of the Northwest region of Cameroon?

Download or read book Coping Strategies and Household Dietary Diversity in a Low Income Neighborhood in South Africa written by W. C. J. Grobler and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity written by Janet Page-Reeves and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Women Redefining the Experience of Food Insecurity: Life Off the Edge of the Table, contributors stress the relationship between food insecurity and women's agency. By problematizing the mundane world of how women procure and prepare food in a context of scarcity, this book, edited by Janet Page-Reeves, reveals dynamics, relationships and experiences that would otherwise go unremarked, and counters constructions of women's choices as predicated on ignorance, irresponsibility or weakness.

Download or read book Food Insecurity written by Burak O. Tan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study focused on the lived experiences of low-income households who coped with food insecurity and explored their worldview on the health impacts of battling with this phenomenon in the Grand Rapids Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). While the main research question focused on how low-income households coped with food insecurity, the following were the focus of the research analysis and served as the empirically testable framework: a) addressing the impact of poverty on affordability of nutritious food, b) addressing the impact of food deserts on accessibility and availability of nutritious food, c) addressing the coping strategies used to battle food insecurity phenomenon, and d) addressing the impact of coping strategies used on health outcomes. Exploring the food insecurity topic, not only was it evident that the research on food insecurity coping mechanisms has been insufficient in the United States, but the existing research has been predominantly quantitative in nature. By implementing a transcendental phenomenology as its primary design, this study elucidated human experience of hunger and of coping mechanisms to lend to the possibility of advising public policies that resonate out of a more humanistic perspective rather than with just statistics alone. This study implemented a stratified random sampling to interview 50 participants who used food pantries in Grand Rapids MSA. The results revealed that the participants were struggling with food insecurity due to the: a) inaccessibility of nutritious food, b) lack of availability of nutritious food, and c) unaffordability of nutritious food. The levels of food insecurity were significantly higher for the Grand Rapids MSA households compared to the USDA national averages. The top five coping strategies showed that the participants depended on formal and informal networks to address their nutritional needs: a) food pantries/churches, b) selecting cheap foods, c) meal planning, d) friends and family, and e) the SNAP benefits (food stamps). The food insecurity phenomenon and coping strategies had a substantial impact on the participants’ mental health outcomes (stress, anxiety, depression) versus their physical health outcomes (being overweight, high blood pressure, diabetes). In conclusion, this study recommends that the public administrators and practitioners should revise the “one size fits all” approach in nutrition-related policies, strive to improve the intergovernmental coalitions to circulate the public assistance information, focus on ameliorating the effectiveness of formal and informal networks as a coping strategy, and work towards alleviating the physical and mental health outcomes of food insecurity phenomenon through preventative approaches.

Download or read book Food Insecurity Causes and Household Coping Strategies written by Markos Sintayehu Metaferia and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is all about issues of food insecurity causes and rural farm households coping strategies. It raises a point of global debate about the essence, dimensions and scopes of food insecurity including the challenges to realize this global agenda from Ethiopian farm households context. Therefore, the book would be much relevant in providing readers with the chance of examining empirical and theoretical findings about food insecurity.

Download or read book Gender Relations and Food Security written by Bina Agarwal and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Role of Women in Household Food Security in Mathioya Division Central written by Mburu Grace and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of women in household food security: aims to provide an insight into the many and diverse factors in their contributions to household food security; as well as showing that women play a crucial role in all activities involved in household livelihoods. However, women are disadvantaged in the use of the production resources like land. Nevertheless they (women) apply various forms of strategies to mitigate household food insecurity. The wealth of the information in this book is directly relevant policy makers, non-governmental organizations and other food security practitioners in designing policies and programmes for food security that do not marginalize women.

Download or read book Poverty and food insecurity during COVID 19 Telephone survey evidence from mothers in rural and urban Myanmar written by Headey, Derek D. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myanmar had one of the lowest confirmed COVID-19 caseloads in the world in mid-2020 and was one of the few developing countries not projected to go into economic recession. However, macroeconomic projections are likely to be a poor guide to individual and household welfare in a fast-moving crisis that has involved disruption to an unusually wide range of sectors and livelihoods. To explore the impacts of COVID-19 disruptions on household poverty and coping strategies, as well as maternal food insecurity experiences, this study used a telephone survey conducted in June and July 2020 covering 2,017 mothers of nutritionally vulnerable young children in urban Yangon and rural villages of Myanmar’s Dry Zone. Stratifying results by location, livelihoods, and asset-levels, and using retrospective questions on pre-COVID-19 incomes and various COVID-19 impacts, we find that the vast majority of households have been adversely affected from loss of income and employment. Over three-quarters cite income/job losses as the main impact of COVID-19 – median incomes declined by one third and $1.90/day income-based poverty rose by around 27 percentage points between January and June 2020. Falling into poverty was most strongly associated with loss of employment (including migrant employment), but also with recent childbirth. The poor commonly coped with income losses through taking loans/credit, while better-off households drew down on savings and reduced non-food expenditures. Self-reported food insecurity experiences were much more common in the urban sample than in the rural sample, even though income-based and asset-based poverty were more prevalent in rural areas. In urban areas, around one quarter of respondents were worried about food quantities and quality, and around 10 percent stated that there were times when they had run out of food or gone hungry. Respondents who stated that their household had lost income or experienced food supply problems due to COVID-19 were more likely to report a variety of different food insecurity experiences. These results raise the concern that the welfare impacts of the COVID-19 crisis are much more serious and widespread than macroeconomic projections would suggest. Loss of employment and casual labor are major drivers of increasing poverty. Consequently, economic recovery strategies must emphasize job creation to revitalize damaged livelihoods. However, a strengthened social protection strategy should also be a critical component of economic recovery to prevent adversely affected households from falling into poverty traps and to avert the worst forms of food insecurity and malnutrition, particularly among households with pregnant women and young children. The recent second wave of COVID-19 infections in Myanmar from mid-August onwards makes the expansion of social protection even more imperative.

Download or read book Impact of Gender Inequalities on Food Security in Rural Households written by Anne Ogoti and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research examined the impact of gender inequalities on food security in rural households in Nyansiongo Sub-Location, Nyamira County. It sought answers to the following questions: resources that women accessed and controlled to ensure household food security, their attitudes and perceptions towards food security, and their level of participation in decision-making in food security. The study was guided by the Entitlement Approach/Theory). Target population was women farmers. Data was collected using qualitative and quantitative methods and was analysed. Main findings of the study were: resources necessary for household food production, land, oxen/plough, and farm equipment/implements were controlled by others other than the respondents. Women did not participate in decision-making issues on household food security. Women were the major labour providers for household food security. Recommendations: Government and development partners should empower women to realize household food security. There should be gender equality for equal participation in household food security.

Download or read book A Gender Analysis of Household Food Insecurity in the South Eastern Region of Malawi written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food security -- Households -- Gender -- Rural and urban households -- Household Food Insecurity Scale -- Coping strategy index -- Dietary diversity score -- Multiple linear regression -- Multinomial logistic regression.