Adaptation Processes in Agriculture and Food Security: Insights from Evaluating Behavioral Changes in West Africa

Command agriculture is a contract farming scheme necessitated by land redistribution that ruptured Zimbabwe’s sources of resilience, distorted credit access, heightened tenure insecurity, and spiked vulnerability to droughts. Using qualitative analysis of extant literature, this article rationalizes the program’s nobility of cause but argues that the program alone cannot revamp agriculture. Notwithstanding how the program has evolved, revamping agriculture also encompasses policies that address fiscal prudence and macroeconomic resilience. Equally important is agricultural training that fosters skills and technologies that are not only climate-responsive but also meet the demands of the constantly evolving agrarian value chain.

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Enhancing the Glopan Food Systems Framework by Integrating Gender: Relevance for Women in African Agriculture

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13158564 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (15) ◽

pp. 8564

Author(s):

Elizabeth Mkandawire ◽

Melody Mentz-Coetzee ◽

Margaret Najjingo Mangheni ◽

Eleonora Barusi

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Food Systems ◽

Food System ◽

Social Systems ◽

Gender Inequalities ◽

Gender Barriers ◽

Nutrition Security ◽

African Agriculture ◽

Agriculture And Food ◽

Systems Framework

Globally, gender inequalities constrain food security, with women often disproportionately affected. Women play a fundamental role in household food and nutrition security. The multiple roles women play in various areas of the food system are not always recognised. This oversight emerges from an overemphasis on one aspect of the food system, without considering how this area might affect or be affected by another aspect. This study aimed to draw on international commitments and treaties using content analysis to enhance the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Security food systems framework by integrating a gender perspective. The study found that generally, there is a consensus on specific actions that can be taken to advance gender equality at specific stages of the food system. However, governance and social systems constraints that are not necessarily part of the food system, but have a significant bearing on men and women’s capacity to effectively participate in the food system, need to be addressed. While the proposed conceptual framework has some limitations, it offers a foundation on which researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders can begin conceptualising the interconnectedness of gender barriers in the food system.

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Metal-based Green Synthesized Nanoparticles: Boon for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience ◽

10.1109/tnb.2021.3089773 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-1

Author(s):

Sudhir Shende ◽

Vishnu Rajput ◽

Aniket Gade ◽

Tatiana Minkina ◽

Svetlana N. Sushkova ◽

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Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

Sustainable Agriculture ◽

Agriculture And Food

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The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture and Food Security in the Greater Horn of Africa

Politikon ◽

10.1080/02589346.2020.1861509 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

T. K. Seife

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Food Security ◽

Horn Of Africa ◽

Impact Of Climate Change ◽

Agriculture And Food ◽

Greater Horn Of Africa ◽

The Impact

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