Chapter 20. An example of adaptative strategy in the face of food insecurity

2017 ◽  
pp. 399-415
Author(s):  
Ramatou Hassane
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
The Face ◽  
Adaptative Strategy

Abstract C041: US Latina immigrants: Is obesity the face of food insecurity?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria A. Amador ◽  
Mary A. Garza ◽  
Evelyn King-Marshall ◽  
Meleah Boyle ◽  
Leyla Merlo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Latina Immigrants ◽  
The Face

scholarly journals More than Just Food: Food Insecurity and Resilient Place Making through Community Self-Organising

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2942 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan K. Blake
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Community Resources ◽  
Time Activity ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
The Face ◽  
Individual Scale ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Community Spaces ◽  
The Relationship

This research considers the relationship between neoliberalism, poverty and food insecurity and how this impacts on the ability of a community to self-organise and become resilient. Specifically, it examines shocks imposed by the implementation of austerity policy and neoliberal welfare reform and the longer term individualisation that gives rise to greater vulnerability to such shocks and how community organisations encourage different levels of resilience in the face of this. Original findings from case study and qualitative analysis are twofold. Firstly, food insecurity effects are not only hunger and poor health experienced at the individual scale, but they also extend into places through the loss of social networks, erosion of community spaces, denigration of local foodscapes and collective de-skilling that limits the community resources needed for self-organising. Secondly, the ways in which food support is provided in communities has implications for how communities can regain the resources they need to be able to enact resilience in the face of trouble and difficulty. As such, the research demonstrates that self-organising is more than free-time activity; in these conditions, the capacity to self-organise is a vital community asset that is necessary for building resilience and social sustainability. As such, policy responses to poverty should take a multi-scale approach.

scholarly journals EVALUATION DES CARACTERISTIQUES AGRONOMIQUES DE CINQ ACCESSIONS DE SESAME (SESAMUMINDICUM L.) A KORHOGO, AU NORD DE LA COTE DIVOIRE

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1248-1258
Author(s):  
Siene Laope Ambroise Casimir ◽  
◽  
Doumbouya Mohamed ◽  
Bayala Roger ◽  
Guei Degbanhinindy Hermann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Grain Yield ◽  
Plant Material ◽  
Sesamum Indicum ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
Experimental Plot ◽  
The Face ◽  
Low Performance

Climate change, poverty and food insecurity are generally leading ivorian producers to turn increasingly to crops that require less water and inputs to diversify their income. Among these crops we can cite sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) which, despite its nutritional and socio- economic importance, has its culture which faces a low performance of the available plant material and phytosanitary constraints which limit its productivity. Hence the interest of this work, which consisted in characterizing five sesame accessions on agronomic aspects and on their behavior in the face of the phytosanitaryconstraintsencountered in the study area. It was carried out on the experimental plot of Peleforo GON COULIBALY University in Korhogo. A randomized full block device with 4 repetitions was used. The factor studied was accession to 5 levels. The results of this work showed significant differences between the accessions for the various agronomic parameters observed and measured. The A3 accession was the most branched and the A1 accession the highest. In addition, accessions A3 and A5 were the most efficient in terms of grain yield (3987.4 kg / ha) while accessions A4 and A1 were the most sensitive to variousfungalattacks.

scholarly journals Analysis of Food Security Program in Malika VDC of Dailekh District

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 56-68
Author(s):  
Krishna Prasad Gyawali ◽  
Chandra Bahadur Magar
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Healthy Life ◽  
Traditional Occupation ◽  
The Face ◽  
Socio Economic Impact ◽  
Food Vulnerability ◽  
Production Prices

This paper is an attempt to analyze the socio economic impact of food security program in the study area. Food security is widely defined as ‘access by all people at all times to enough food for an active healthy life’. Food insecurity is, therefore, the inability of a household or individual to meet required consumption levels in the face of fluctuating production, prices and incomes. Food insecurity is one of the major problems of the rural community. Community peoples are suffered from more food vulnerability due to the low production & having their traditional occupation as a way of livelihood. Their traditional occupation had faced different challenges due to modernization & globalization. Communities have been affected by the low production, lack of improved agriculture technology, road accessibility, and market facility and have experienced of rapid socio-economic, cultural changes over generation. Their way of earning livelihood differ by the development activities & these changes have been enumerated with case material from the survey.The Saptagandaki Journal Vol.8 2017: 56-68

‘Every Town Should Have One’: Emergency Food Banking in the UK

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
HANNAH LAMBIE-MUMFORD
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Big Society ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Human Rights Based Approach

AbstractThis article charts the rise of one of the UK's most high profile forms of food banks: the Trussell Trust Foodbank franchise. Employing empirical data it seeks to embed the phenomenon of the growth of Foodbanks within a social policy research context. In the first instance, the role of recent and on-going shifts in the social policy context are examined, notably the importance of welfare diversification under previous Labour governments (1997–2010) and the current public spending cuts, welfare restructuring and Big Society rhetoric of the Conservative−Liberal Democrat Coalition government. The paper goes on to explore the nature of Foodbanks as emergency initiatives, providing relief and alleviation for the ‘symptoms’ of food insecurity and poverty. Data are presented which demonstrate some of the ways in which the Foodbank model and those who run the projects navigate the tension between addressing symptoms rather than ‘root causes’ of poverty and food insecurity. In the face of the simultaneous growth in emergency food initiatives and significant upheavals in social policy and welfare provision, the article culminates with an argument for social policy research and practice to harness and prioritise the human rights-based approach to food experiences.

scholarly journals The “awkwardnesses” of aid and exchange

Focaal ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Celia Plender
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Cooperative Movement ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Consumer Cooperative ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

Self-help and mutual aid have been at the heart of the consumer cooperative movement and its response to food insecurity since its inception. Yet how these terms are conceptualized and practiced in contemporary food co-ops often has more to do with their individual histories, ideologies, and the values of those involved than it does the history of the cooperative movement. Drawing on ethnographic examples from two London-based food co-ops with different backgrounds, this article explores how each enacts ideals of aid and exchange. It argues that the context of austerity creates “awkwardnesses” between and within personal values and organizational structures in the face of inequality, leading to blurred boundaries between different models of aid and exchange and the forms of moral accounting that these entail.

scholarly journals Analysis of Households Food Insecurity in the Face of Climate Variability: Evidence from North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Debebe Cheber ◽  
Fekadu Beyene ◽  
Jema Haji ◽  
Tesfaye Lemma
Keyword(s):  
Climate Variability ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Rainfall Variability ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Amhara Region ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Irrigation Water Use ◽  
The Face ◽  
Soil Fertility Status

Food insecurity is more worrisome now than ever before due to unprecedented climate variability and widespread rural poverty. Research-based and policy relevant empirical evidence is crucial to design strategies to address food insecurity in the face of climate variability. Thus, this study examines the status of food insecurity among households’ and its determinants in North Shewa Zone of Amhara Region using cross-sectional data collected from 382 sample households. Households’ food insecurity status was determined by comparing the total calorie available for consumption per adult equivalent to the minimum level of subsistence requirement per adult equivalent of 2200 kcal. Logistic regression model was used to identify factors that influence food insecurity status of households in the study area. Accordingly, the results of the study show that majority (56.28%) of the sample households in the study area were food insecure. In addition, results revealed that age, literacy, cultivated land size, soil fertility status, number of oxen owned and irrigation water use were the major factors negatively associated with food insecurity. In contrast, sex, household size, distance to the main market and rainfall variability have increased the probability of being food insecure. The findings imply that majority of the households are food insecure where its improvement can be addressed through appropriate policy, institutional and technological options.

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