scholarly journals Farming household food storage, consumption and sales decision making under price risk in northern Uganda

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-15
Author(s):  
Owach Charles ◽  
Bahiigwa Godfrey ◽  
Elepu Gabriel
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Food Storage ◽  
Price Risk ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Farming Household ◽  
Sales Decision

scholarly journals What Explains Gender Gaps in Household Food Security? Evidence from Maize Farm Households in Southern Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Girma Gezimu Gebre ◽  
Hiroshi Isoda ◽  
Yuichiro Amekawa ◽  
Dil Bahadur Rahut ◽  
Hisako Nomura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Farm Households ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Southern Ethiopia ◽  
Lower Probability ◽  
Gender Gaps ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Household Food

AbstractUsing primary data collected from 560 farm households in Dawuro zone, southern Ethiopia, this study analyzes the gender gaps in food security among male, female, and joint decision-making farm households. It examines the factors inducing gender gaps among the households of those three categories. The results show that female decision-making households have a lower probability of ensuring food-security and a higher probability of being transitionally and chronically food-insecure. Joint decision-making households showed a higher probability of falling into the chronically food-insecure category. The decomposition results show significant gender gaps between male and female decision-making households in terms of food-secure, transitory food-insecure, and chronically food-insecure categories. Overall, both the endowment and return effects account for the gaps; however, the magnitude of the effect from the return is higher than from the endowment on significant gaps in the food-secure, transitory, and chronically food-insecure categories. Hence, there is a need for policies that not only ensure equal levels of productive resources but also help households build their capacity in order to improve both transitory and chronically food insecure situations.

scholarly journals INFLUENCE OF LIVELIHOODS ON HOUSEHOLD FOOD SECURITY IN PASTORAL AREAS OF NAROK COUNTY, KENYA

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 351-381
Author(s):  
Timothy Kileteny ◽  
Jacob. W. Wakhungu
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Extended Family ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Food Storage ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Sample Population ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Food Utilisation

Food security and household livelihoods are tied together in an intricate relationship through the former’s dimensions (availability, accessibility, utilisation, stability) and the latter’s elements (Human, Social and Economic Capital). The problem identified by the study was a lack of information regarding the exact way in which the livelihoods of pastoralists in Narok County influence their food security. The study employed descriptive and correlation research designs. Data was primarily collected using questionnaires administered to a sample population of 385, FGD, observation and KII. The objectives established that household food accessibility was largely influenced by economic capital (or the lack thereof); there was a general lack of money to buy food and or produce own food, against a backdrop of, slow onset drought disaster(four year long drought periods in the last 20years) unfavorable livestock prices, and physical access in pastoralist undeveloped land was hampered by poor road communication links. The low education levels (63.8% were found to have never attained any formal education) implied limited economic opportunities for the household. Thirdly it was found that household food utilisation,(operationalised in the study as being access to potable water, latrine use uptake and household food storage practices) was influenced largely by social capital; based on the food module and other indicators of food utilisation as defined by the study, it was seen that the mean percentage status of food utilisation in Narok County stood at 49%.The study concluded that livelihoods have a strong influence on food security, primarily through the social capital (traditional practices, extended family networks and support from formal institutions). The study findings will help enhance policy implementation, in areas of vulnerability to food insecurity for pastoralist households.

scholarly journals Survey data of intra-household decision making and smallholder agricultural production in Northern Uganda and Southern Tanzania

Data in Brief ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 302-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris M. Mwungu ◽  
Caroline Mwongera ◽  
Kelvin M. Shikuku ◽  
Fridah N. Nyakundi ◽  
Jennifer Twyman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Northern Uganda ◽  
Household Decision ◽  
Household Decision Making

scholarly journals Peran Perempuan Suku Minangkabau yang Menjadi Kepala Keluarga (PEKKA) bagi Penciptaan Ketahanan Pangan Rumah Tangga di Kecamatan Padang Timur

Humanus ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 82
Author(s):  
Siska Sasmita
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Nuclear Family ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Dominant Position ◽  
The Third ◽  
Household Food ◽  
The Family ◽  
West Sumatra ◽  
Food Needs

Segment of the third world's poorest people live in households headed by women, because in these households there is no man who can give income. When female heads of families are in a poor position then their ability to meet food needs for family members bear is also questionable. For the case of West Sumatra, although women are culturally Minangkabau tribe, has a fairly dominant position in the division of inheritance, which means has the advantage economically, but not necessarily female heads of families in West Sumatera is able to create and maintain a stable food security for the household, especially if fosterage family not just the nuclear family only. The power and intervention of ‘mamak’ is very strong in the decision making of high inheritance. This phenomenon indicates that the Minangkabau women actually do not have control over resources, such as land and other high inheritance. Moving on from the facts presented above writer is interested to dig further in research on women's roles Minangkabau tribe who became head of the family for the creation of household food security, with the focus of study in the Eastern District of Padang. Kata kunci: perempuan kepala keluarga, ketahanan pangan rumah tangga

Women's empowerment and household food security in Ghana

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria Essilfie ◽  
Joshua Sebu ◽  
Samuel Kobina Annim ◽  
Emmanuel Ekow Asmah
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Different Dimensions

PurposeThis study adopts three dimensions of women’s empowerment: (1) relative education empowerment, (2) women's autonomy in decision-making and (3) domestic violence to examine the effect of women’s empowerment on household food security in Ghana.Design/methodology/approachThe study employed the generalised ordered logit model (GOLM) and dominance analysis using a sample of 1,017 households from the seventh round of Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS7).FindingsThe findings from the study revealed that women’s empowerment proxied by relative years of schooling and women's decision-making were important indicators for improving household food security. Further, there exist varying dimensions of women’s empowerment in households, and these dimensions have a significant effect on the state of food security of households.Originality/valueThere are a number of studies on the effect of women's empowerment on food security. However, this study contributes to the literature by examining the varying effects of different dimensions of women’s empowerment on food security. This provides policymakers with a guide that looks at different levels of women’s empowerment and the combinations of women's empowerment dimensions that contribute for reducing food insecurity.

scholarly journals A Generalized Flow for B2B Sales Predictive Modeling: An Azure Machine-Learning Approach

Forecasting ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-283
Author(s):  
Alireza Rezazadeh
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Optimal Decision ◽  
Computing Platform ◽  
Machine Learning Approach ◽  
Successful Business ◽  
Decision Boundaries ◽  
Sales Decision ◽  
Business To Business ◽  
Core Part

Predicting the outcome of sales opportunities is a core part of successful business management. Conventionally, undertaking this prediction has relied mostly on subjective human evaluations in the process of sales decision-making. In this paper, we addressed the problem of forecasting the outcome of Business to Business (B2B) sales by proposing a thorough data-driven Machine-Learning (ML) workflow on a cloud-based computing platform: Microsoft Azure Machine-Learning Service (Azure ML). This workflow consists of two pipelines: (1) An ML pipeline to train probabilistic predictive models on the historical sales opportunities data. In this pipeline, data is enriched with an extensive feature enhancement step and then used to train an ensemble of ML classification models in parallel. (2) A prediction pipeline to use the trained ML model and infer the likelihood of winning new sales opportunities along with calculating optimal decision boundaries. The effectiveness of the proposed workflow was evaluated on a real sales dataset of a major global B2B consulting firm. Our results implied that decision-making based on the ML predictions is more accurate and brings a higher monetary value.

scholarly journals A structured expert judgement elicitation approach: how can it inform sound intervention decision making to support household food security?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Sue Kleve ◽  
Martine J Barons
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Expert Judgement ◽  
Household Food Security ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Food Security Status ◽  
Physical Access ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Objective: To examine structured expert judgement (SEJ) elicitation as a method to provide robust, defensible data for three determinants of household food security (food cost, household disposable income and physical access) for quantifying a proof of concept integrating decision support system for food security. Design: SEJ elicitation is a validated method for obtaining unavailable data, but its use in household food security in high income countries is novel. Investigate Discuss Estimate Aggregate (IDEA) elicitation protocol was implemented, including quantitative and qualitative elements. Using specific questions related to three determinants food security experts were encouraged to Investigate- estimate individual first-round responses to these questions, Discuss-with each other evidence on the reasoning and logic of their estimates, Estimate-second-round responses, following which these judgements were combined using mathematical-Aggregation. Setting: Victoria, Australia Participants: Five experts with a range of expertise in the area of household food insecurity participated in the SEJ elicitation process. Results: The experts’ ability to provide reliable estimates was tested and informed the aggregation of the collection of individual estimates into a single quantity of interest for use in decision support. The results of the quantitative elicitation show the impact of combinations of varying household income, food cost and physical access on household food security status and severity and is supported by the experts reasoning during elicitation. Conclusion: This research provides insight to the application of SEJ where elicited data can inform and support intervention decision-making specific to household food security, especially where evidence is absent or of poor quality.

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