The household food budget of the wealthy and the poor in South Africa

In countries with wide income differentials, food insecurity leads to substantial changes in everyday food practices and to poor dietary and mental health. Less is known about consequences of food budget pressure in affluent populations and in social-democratic welfare societies with narrower income differentials. This paper describes relations between pressure on household food budgets and demographic factors in Denmark. It asks how budgetary constraint relates to life satisfaction and dietary health and how these relationships are affected when people adapt their food practices to manage pressure on budgets. Data from a representative 2015 survey of Danish households are employed. Levels of food budget pressure vary with income and household composition and are negatively associated with life satisfaction and dietary health. We find a sequence of food practice adaptations where changes in food quality and hospitality, and seeking external help were being made when adjustments to food provisioning and kitchen practices were proving to be insufficient. We conclude that in affluent social-democratic welfare societies pressure on food budgets also has negative impacts on life satisfaction and health. Food budget pressure should be monitored in the future and addressed in public health policy.

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Urban social movements in South Africa today: Its meaning for theological education and the church

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies ◽

10.4102/hts.v73i3.4770 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 73 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Stephan F. De Beer

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Social Movements ◽

Theological Education ◽

Cape Town ◽

Urban Social Movements ◽

Gustavo Gutierrez ◽

The Poor ◽

The Social ◽

The City ◽

The Church

In the past decade, significant social movements emerged in South Africa, in response to specific urban challenges of injustice or exclusion. This article will interrogate the meaning of such urban social movements for theological education and the church. Departing from a firm conviction that such movements are irruptions of the poor, in the way described by Gustavo Gutierrez and others, and that movements of liberation residing with, or in a commitment to, the poor, should be the locus of our theological reflection, this article suggests that there is much to be gained from the praxis of urban social movements, in disrupting, informing and shaping the praxis of both theological education and the church. I will give special consideration to Ndifuna Ukwazi and the Reclaim the City campaign in Cape Town, the Social Justice Coalition in Cape Town, and Abahlali baseMjondolo based in Durban, considering these as some of the most important and exciting examples of liberatory praxes in South Africa today. I argue that theological education and educators, and a church committed to the Jesus who came ‘to liberate the oppressed’, ignore these irruptions of the Spirit at our own peril.

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HUBUNGAN TINGKAT KEMISKINAN DENGAN AKSES PANGAN DI KECAMATAN PARDASUKA KABUPATEN PRINGSEWU

Jurnal Ilmu-Ilmu Agribisnis ◽

10.23960/jiia.v9i3.5350 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 539

Author(s):

Nurjanah Nurjanah ◽

Suriaty Situmorang ◽

Eka Kasymir

Keyword(s):

Correlation Analysis ◽

Food Access ◽

Research Data ◽

Survey Method ◽

Poor Household ◽

Poverty Level ◽

The Poor ◽

Household Food ◽

Poor Households

This research aims to analyze the distribution of poor households and analyze the relation between poverty level and household food access. The method used in this research is a survey method. The location was chosen purposively with consideration that Pardasuka Subdistrict represents the highest RASKIN beneficiary area in Pringsewu Regency. The respondents are 67 households of the RASKIN beneficiary selected randomly. The research data were collected in January 2019. The distribution of poor households was analyzed descriptively and household food access was analyzed by using correlation analysis. The results showed that the distribution of poor households in Pardasuka Subdistrict consists of 47.76% Pre-Prosperous, 19.40% Prosperous I, and 32.84% Prosperous II. The relation between poverty level and household food access in Pardasuka Subdistrict Pringsewu Regency is negative and significant, which means that when the food access increases, then the poverty level of the poor households decreases.Key words: poor household, food access

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Dynamics of Health Among Adults in South Africa

10.21203/rs.3.rs-98290/v1 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Usengimana Shadrack Mutembereza

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Social Determinants Of Health ◽

Health Inequality ◽

Social Determinants ◽

National Income ◽

Determinants Of Health ◽

Health Campaigns ◽

Health Selection ◽

Policy Makers ◽

The Poor

Abstract BackgroundThis paper estimates trend of health mobility in South Africa using National Income Dynamic Study (NIDS) and investigate whether the patterns of health mobility differs within socioeconomic groups created by income and gender. Health is measured by SRHS, which correlates with mortality and morbidity; thus, it is the best measure of health. MethodsUsing five waves of NIDS and various econometric models, this research estimates health mobility in the period between 2007 and 2017. This study will use transition matrix as descriptive analysis of health mobility and Conditional Maximum Likelihood Estimations to analyse health mobility, trend of health mobility and relationship between health mobility and health inequality within NIDS. ResultsThe study shows that, among poor males, health mobility neither follows a health selection or health constraint mobility trend; the high health mobility with ambiguous trends has not decreased health inequality. Among the poor females, a negative health mobility trend is observed; this research also found that health inequality has not creased. Among the non-poor males, it is found that health mobility follows a gradient constraint trend which has decreased health inequality. Among non-poor females, it is found that health mobility follows a health selection trend which has not decreased health inequality. The results suggest that policy makers should target both social determinants of health and health campaigns to deal with health inequality among the poor males. ConclusionsThe trend of health mobility among poor females suggest that policy makers should target the social determinants of health to combat health inequality. The trend of health mobility among the non-poor males suggests that health mobility will eliminate health inequality. Lastly, the trend of health mobility suggests that policymakers should target health campaigns to deal with health inequality.

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Levinas, Social Vulnerability, and the Logic of South African Racism

Suomen Antropologi Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society ◽

10.30676/jfas.v43i3.82735 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

pp. 91-101

Author(s):

Robert Bernasconi

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

South African ◽

Social Vulnerability ◽

Emmanuel Levinas ◽

Poor Whites ◽

The Poor ◽

Poor White ◽

The Way

The philosopher Emmanuel Levinas was at the forefront of the promotion of the idea of vulnerability in philosophy. For Levinas, my primary vulnerability concerns not my pain, but my pain at the other’s pain. Vulnerablity also has an ambiguous character in so far as it is not easily separated from my self-absorption in enjoyment. In this paper I show how Levinas’s account can illuminate the way that the idea of vulnerability sometimes operates within racist societies to maintain existing divisions. In particular I focus on the Carnegie Commission’s 1932 study The Poor White Problem in South Africa where concern for the vulnerability of poor whites concealed a tendency to naturalize the vulnerability of South African Blacks. Keywords: Carnegie commission, poor whites, racism, vulnerability, Emmanuel Levinas,South Africa

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Household Food Security Status and Its Determinants in Maphumulo Local Municipality, South Africa

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su10093307 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (9) ◽

pp. 3307 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Primrose Ngema ◽

Melusi Sibanda ◽

Lovemore Musemwa

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Food Security ◽

Food Consumption ◽

Dietary Diversity ◽

Binary Logistic Regression ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Household Food Security ◽

Binary Logistic Regression Model ◽

Household Food ◽

Food Security Status

Food security at the household level remains a major issue in South Africa and for many other developing countries, particularly those in Africa. As a means of ensuring food security in KwaZulu-Natal province, various food security intervention programmes were launched. Nonetheless, food security remains an issue among households in the province. This paper estimates the household food security status of the “One Home One Garden” (OHOG) beneficiaries against that of non-beneficiaries and assesses the determinants of household food security status in Maphumulo. A stratified random sampling technique was used to sample 495 households (including 330 OHOG beneficiaries and 165 non-beneficiaries). The status of household food security was estimated by means of a “Household Dietary Diversity Score” (HDDS). Additionally, a Household Food Consumption Score” (HFCS) tool was employed to supplement the HDDS. The results showed that food consumption patterns were characterized by medium (4.89) and average (4.22) HDDS for the OHOG beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries, respectively. Taking HDDS as a proxy for household food security, an independent samples t-test (Levene’s test—equal variances assumed) reveals a significant (p < 0.001) relationship between the sample means of the two groups. A greater proportion (65%) of the OHOG beneficiaries had an acceptable (≥35) HFCS level, whereas just over half (54%) of the non-beneficiaries fell in the borderline (21.5 to 35) HFCS level. The determinants of household food security status were elicited by means of a binary logistic regression model. The results revealed that education (p = 0.036), receiving infrastructural support (irrigation) (p = 0.001), and participation in the OHOG programme (p = 0.000) positively influenced the food security status of households, yet household income (p = 0.000) and access to credit (p = 0.002) showed a negative correlation. This paper proposes that government and developmental agencies, in their efforts to enhance food security through food security intervention programmes, should support households by investing in education and agricultural infrastructure, as well as giving priority to smallholder infrastructural irrigation support for households that largely rely on rain-fed systems.

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Politics and Economic Policymaking in South Africa since 1994

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192894199.013.4 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 65-90

Author(s):

Alan Hirsch ◽

Brian Levy ◽

Musa Nxele

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Black People ◽

Global Financial Crisis ◽

Slow Growth ◽

Economic Transformation ◽

Policy Uncertainty ◽

The Poor ◽

The Global Financial Crisis ◽

Growth Economic ◽

Political Settlement

Economic policy in South Africa since 1994 has confronted the imperative to include middle class, working class and poor black people more fully into the economy in circumstances which circumscribe the scope for constructive negotiation and lasting agreement. The new regime of 1994 sought a political settlement which allowed stronger growth, economic transformation of the elite and economic inclusion of the poor. After meeting with some success, the combination of the global financial crisis and new political leadership led to policy uncertainty, increasing corruption and some deterioration of state capacity, which resulted in exceptionally slow growth. The puzzle this chapter engages with is why the struggle over rents has stood in the way of a mutually beneficial deal.

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Hunger Hurts

Socio-Economic Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7311-1.ch028 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 538-553

Author(s):

Anita Howarth

Keyword(s):

Lived Experience ◽

Digital Culture ◽

British Society ◽

Personal Knowledge ◽

Hybrid Form ◽

Welfare Benefits ◽

Food Practices ◽

Political Commentary ◽

Household Food ◽

Food Budget

Austerity food blogs have become prominent as household food budgets have become tighter, government finances constrained, and an ideology of austerity has become dominant. The British version of austerity privileges reducing government spending by cutting welfare benefits, and legitimizes this through individual failure explanations of poverty and stereotypes of benefit claimants. Austerity food blogs, written by those forced to live hand to mouth, are a hybrid form of digital culture that merges narratives of lived experience, food practices and political commentary in ways that challenge the dominant views on poverty. The popular blog A Girl Called Jack disrupts the austerity hegemony by breaking the silence that the stigma of poverty imposes on the impoverished and by personalizing poverty through Jack Monroe's narratives of her lived experience of it, inviting the reader's pity and refuting reductionist explanations of the causes of poverty. Monroe also challenges austerity through practices derived through her personal knowledge gained during her struggle to survive and eat healthily on £10-a-week food budget. This combination of narrative and survival practices written evocatively and eloquently resonate powerfully with readers; however the response to Monroe's blog highlights a deep uneasiness in British society over growing levels of poverty, and deep divisions over who is responsible for addressing it; and more fundamentally, over identifying and defining the modern poor and modern poverty.

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The reproductive success of black rhinoceroses in the Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Park, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Koedoe ◽

10.4102/koedoe.v59i1.1386 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 59 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Zoliswa N. Nhleko ◽

Dan M. Parker ◽

Dave J. Druce

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Carrying Capacity ◽

Black Rhinoceros ◽

Ecological Carrying Capacity ◽

Diceros Bicornis ◽

The Poor ◽

Kwazulu Natal ◽

Southern Central ◽

Target Period ◽

The Mean

Black rhinoceroses (Diceros bicornis) are endangered and the southern-central sub-species (Diceros bicornis minor) is considered critically endangered. We assessed the reproductive lifehistories of black rhinoceroses in Hluhluwe–iMfolozi Park (HiP), KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, to determine whether this historically important donor sub-population was meeting regional reproductive targets. Detailed life-history information for known individuals (n = 79–120) was used to investigate reproductive parameters between 1998 and 2013. Mean age at sexual maturity was 12 years, which exceeded a target period of 7 years and 5 months. The mean inter-calving interval was 3 years and 8 months – 8 months longer than the recommended 3 years. The poor population performance of the HiP black rhinoceroses could be a result of poor habitat quality, poor animal condition, females losing their first calves, predation of calves or a negative social effect of annual live-harvesting of the population. However, we believe that the estimated ecological carrying capacity of black rhinoceroses at HiP (a figure used to ascertain whether the population can be harvested at all) may be incorrect, leading to the poor reproductive performance. We recommend that the accuracy of the ecological carrying capacity estimate be assessed as a matter of urgency and that a moratorium be placed on the live-harvesting of individuals until the estimate has been refined.Conservation implications: Our results provide key data which can be used to refine black rhinoceros breeding targets in South Africa and the region more broadly

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