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Food gifting, kinship networks and household food security

Sun, Shaoyan; An, Henry; Marcoul, Philippe - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

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Perception of Global Food Security Issues in the German Public

Klumper, Wilhelm; Kathage, Jonas; Qaim, Matin - Institut für Agrarökonomie, Georg-August-Universität … - 2012

Die Ergebnisse einer Befragung der deutschen Öffentlichkeit zum Thema Welternährung werden in diesem Beitrag vorgestellt. Die Befragung wurde online mit 1200 Personen durchgeführt. Welternährung ist für die Mehrheit kein Top-Thema. Die Meisten nehmen das Hungerproblem vor allem dann war,...

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Household Food Security in the United States in 2011

Coleman-Jensen, Alisha; Nord, Mark; Andrews, Margaret S.; … - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2011

An estimated 85.1 percent of American households were food secure throughout the entire year in 2011, meaning that they had access at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. The remaining households (14.9 percent) were food insecure at least some time...

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SELBSTVERSORGUNG – ZWISCHEN LIFESTYLE UND ERNÄHRUNGSSICHERUNG?

Neu, Claudia; Nikolic, Ljubica - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2012

Der Anbau von Lebensmitteln im heimischen Garten, auf Pachtflächen, in Schrebergärten oder Communal Gardens erfreut sich ungeahnter Beliebtheit. Neuere empirische Arbeiten weisen darauf hin, dass Obst- und Gemüseanbau, Kleintierhaltung und Hausschlachtungen jenseits der großstädtischen...

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Assessing Potential Technical Enhancements to the U.S. Household Food Security Measures

Nord, Mark - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2012

The statistical measures used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture since 1995 to monitor the food security of the Nation’s households—the extent to which they can consistently acquire adequate food for active healthy living—are based on a single-parameter logistic latent-trait measurement...

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Effects of Family Size on Household Food Security in Osun State, Nigeria

Olayemi, Adebayo Oyefunke - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 02 (2012) 02

The study investigated effects of family size on household food security in Osun state, Nigeria. Multistage sampling technique was employed to select 110 respondents for the study. A well structured questionnaire was used in collecting information from the respondents. The data were subjected to...

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Coping Strategies in Response to Rising Food Prices: Evidence From India

Tandon, Sharad; Landes, Maurice - Economic Research Service, Department of Agriculture - 2014

Food prices across the world rose dramatically between 2006 and 2008. The causes of the price rise were complex, and the event has led to heightened concerns regarding the implications of rising food prices on the prevalence of food insecurity and household welfare, particularly in developing...

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Assessment of Farm Household Food Security and Consumption Indices in Nigeria

Ojeleye, O.A.; Adebisi, O.A.; Fadiji, T.O. - In: Asian Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development 04 (2014) 09

This study was carried out to assess farm households’ food security and consumption indices. The study was conducted in Kaduna state, Nigeria. Data used for this study was collected from a total of 244 farm households with the use of structured questionnaire using a multistage random and...

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Characteristics Associated with Prime-Age Mortality in Eastern and Southern Africa: Evidence from Zambia and Kenya

Chapoto, Antony; Jayne, Thomas S.; Kirimi, Lilian; … - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2009

support this. An emerging strand of the literature on the AIDS epidemic in Africa posits that poverty is increasingly … evidence of a poverty-AIDS connection. This study attempts to shed light on these issues by reporting findings from two linked …

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The Prevalence of Poverty and Inequality in South Sudan: The Case of Renk County

Ahmed, Adam; Roghim, Somaia; Saleh, Ali; Siddig, Khalid H.A. - Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Khartoum - 2013

representing urban and rural households in the Renk County of South Sudan to assess the prevalence of poverty and inequality in the … study area. We used the cost of basic needs; to establish both food poverty line and Poverty line; estimated poverty … rural households respectively fall below our calculated poverty lines. The estimated Gini coefficient was 18% and 20% for …

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