-economic systems, and political structures. The challenges in achieving food security are to reduce poverty, increase food security … break the cycle of poverty. Originality/value – The paper presents comprehensive research work in the field of global food …

society, and to build a composite indicator of poverty (CIP) based on their preferences to act as a national benchmark for … poverty alleviation. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire was administered shortly before the eruption of the … Egyptian Revolution. A series of regression models were run to uncover what Egyptians perceive to be the causes of poverty …

Purpose – The role of household socio-economic factors towards achieving enduring poverty interventions especially … levers to improve welfare of the poor. The purpose of this paper is to examine poverty situations among urban households in … Ekiti State, Nigeria with emphasis on household socioeconomic characteristics and their associated influence on poverty …

. Higher levels of population under the poverty line, higher levels of the Gini Index, and being an African country lead to …

). Findings – Besides other variables it has been observed that poverty remains an important determinant of female labor …

, income, assets and a much lower level of poverty than those without nonfarm participation. The intensity of nonfarm … implications – The findings suggest that any poverty alleviation policies should aim at improving the access of ethnic minorities …