Social protection, including social assistance or safety nets, is considered a proven means of reducing poverty, promoting livelihood, improving food security and nutrition status of the poorest households. The Government ...

Background and aim In response to the continuing food insecurity levels observed at household and individual levels, the Mpumalanga Provincial Government introduced the Phezukomkhono Mlimi (PKM) programme in 2005. While ...

With an increasing rate of urbanisation in East Africa, and with the highest prevalence rate of undernourished population than any region in the developing world, the issue of food access insecurity in urban areas has ...

This study examines rural household food security and its determinants in drought-prone Amhara Region of Ethiopia by focusing on Lay Gaint district as a case study site. A range of factors from physical environmental ...

The objective of this research is to investigate the food security, food diversity and coping strategies used to access food in households in the Eastern Cape rural village of Timane in Idutywa, Eastern Cape, South Africa. A ...

This study was conducted in the Thulamela Municipality, Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa. The study area is characterised by poverty-stricken rural households. A high proportion of households relied ...

Multivariate longitudinal ordinal data are collected for studying the dependence between multivariate ordinal outcomes, the changes over time and associated determinant factors. This emanates from the interdependence ...

Food insecurity in South Africa is not due to a shortage of food in the country but to inadequate access to food by poor groups of individuals and households. Many people, who lost their jobs due to retrenchments or can’t ...