Essays about: "food security and nutrition"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 31 essays containing the words food security and nutrition.
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16. Knocking on the door : a study on nutritional education and women’s empowerment on household level in rural Tanzania
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : In Sub-Saharan Africa, food is often prepared by women, by mothers, grandmothers, daughters, sisters or sisters-in-law. Despite their crucial role in household food security women in developing countries are generally disempowered and they have low decision-making power. READ MORE
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17. Crop production upgrading strategies and their role for household food security in Chamwino District, Tanzania
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : Food insecurity is still a challenge affecting many people in the world, whereby the majority live in developing countries in Southern Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. In Sub-Saharan Africa, many who are food insecure are poor smallholder farmers in rural areas who depend on rain-fed agriculture for food and income. READ MORE
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18. Food secure : Farmers on their modes of production
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : The thesis explores contradictions that farmers see between current mode of production, and how they imagine that modes of production would need to change if there were no fossil fuels. Based on qualitative interviews with farmers, the aim of the study is to contribute to a discussion on strategies to increase the farms’ capabilities to produce food without fossil fuels. READ MORE
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19. Urban Agriculture in Thika, Kenya: the case of Small Ruminant Production in the Perspective of the Sustainable Livelihood Framework
University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Despite the millenary practice of urban agriculture (UA) in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) cities, research conducted on the topic is much more recent and still little is known on the impact UA has on the engaged households in terms of food security, nutrition and health. The overall picture that emerges from the literature is one of stark contrasts; some advocate UA as a tool of empowerment, capable to eradicate hunger and poverty for the most vulnerable, while others do not consider UA as a way for sustainable development. READ MORE
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20. The policy process behind the adaptation of Urban Agriculture policy in Cape Town and Johannesburg : Academic activists and NGO´s as policy actors
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)Abstract : South Africa, also known as the ´Rainbow nation´, is one of the wealthiest countries on the African continent counted in terms of GDP. After the 1994 election, it became a functioning democracy with universal suffrage. READ MORE
