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Abrahams, Z., Mchiza, Z. & Steyn, N.P. (2011) Diet and mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa: stages in the nutrition transition. BMC Public Health. 11:Online.
During the last century we have seen wide-reaching changes in diet, nutritional status and life expectancy. The change in diet and physical activity patterns has become known as the nutrition transition. At any given time, a country or region within a country may be at different stages within this transition. This paper examines a range of nutrition-related indicators for countries in Sub-Sahar...
Abrahams, Z. (2011) What's in the lunchbox?. HSRC Review. 9(3):5.
Preparing a lunchbox for school-going children may have significant advantages for their eating behaviour and long-term health prospects, says ZULFA ABRAHAM and her research team, following a study at disadvantaged schools in the Western Cape.
Abrahams, Z., De Villiers, A,, Steyn, N.P., Fourie, J., Dalais, L., Hill, J., Draper, C.E. & Lambert, E.V. (2011) What's in the lunchbox?: dietary behaviour of learners from disadvantaged schools in the Western Cape, South Africa. Public Health Nutrition. 14(10):1752-1758.
To identify and describe factors associated with food shop (known as tuck shop in South Africa) and lunchbox behaviours of primary-school learners in South Africa. Analysis of data collected in 2008 from a cross-sectional survey. Sixteen primary schools in the Western Cape, South Africa. A total of 717 grade 4 learners aged 10-12 years. A 24 h recall established that 69% of learners carried a...
Aliber, M. (2009) Exploring Statistics South Africa's national household surveys as sources of information about household-level food security. Agrekon. 48(4):384-388.
This article seeks to contribute to an understanding of household-level food security in South Africa using publicly available household survey data from Statistics South Africa. The two datasets that are used in particular are the General Household Survey, an annual household survey that began in 2002, and the Income and Expenditure Survey of 2005/06. Because these surveys are not designed fo...
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Aliber, M. (2009) Exploring statistics: South Africa's national household surveys as sources of information about food security and subsistence agriculture. (March).
This paper seeks to complement CPEG?s broader investigation into food security in South Africa by exploring the usefulness of some of Statistics South Africa's (Stats SA's) household surveys as sources of information about household-level food insecurity and the related theme of subsistence agriculture. Notwithstanding their limitations, these surveys have the potential advantage of being large...
Aliber, M. & Hart, T.G.B. (2009) Should subsistence agriculture be supported as a strategy to address rural food insecurity?. Agrekon. 48(4):434-458.
At first glance South Africa's black farming sector appears to contribute rather minimally to overall agricultural output in South Africa. However, despite the complexity involved in this sector and the often marginal conditions in which agriculture is practised it appears to be important to a large number of black households. Furthermore, the significance they attach to subsistence agriculture...
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Aliber, M., Tlabela, K., Drimie, S. & Walker, C. (2005) HIV/AIDS, land-based livelihoods, and land reform in South Africa. (Report to the International Food Policy Research Institute and the Department of Land Affairs, South Africa, December).
Altman, M., Hart, T. & Jacobs, P. (2010) Food security in South Africa. (March).
The Human Sciences Research Council led a project to review household food security status in South Africa. This project was aimed at ensuring affordable quality food for poor households and considering the short- and long-term contribution of food security to the government's poverty and unemployment reduction strategies. This paper offers an overview of the main findings.
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Altman, M. & Jacobs, P. (2010) Household food and nutrition security. (Paper presented at a Food and Security Roundtable, 22 February).
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Altman, M. (2010) Household food and nutrition security. (Paper presented at the AGREKON Launch, 12 May).
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Altman, M. (2010) A national perspective on household food and nutrition security. (Paper presented to The Challenges of HIV/AIDS and Poverty to Development, JEAPP Dissemination Workshop, Sheraton Hotel, 19 May).
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Altman, M., Hart, T.G.B. & Jacobs, P.T. (2009) Household food security status in South Africa. Agrekon. 48(4):345-361.
The Human Sciences Research Council has established a policy research initiative to monitor household food security and to identify and evaluate policy options. In this special edition, a selection of articles from this project is assembled. While deep chronic hunger has fallen with the expansion of the social grants, under-nutrition is a very serious and widespread challenge. This special edi...
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Altman, M.A. & Ngandu, S. (2010) Would halving unemployment contribute to improved household food security for men and women?. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 86:52-65.
South Africa faces great challenges with extremely high unemployment and deep poverty. A large proportion of households are challenged to meet minimum required nutrition levels. In 2009, the HSRC prepared employment scenarios to see how unemployment might be reduced by 50% between 2004 and 2014, even in the context of the downturn. These scenarios consider what working people might earn in thes...
Altman, M.A. & Mayer, M.J. (2003) Sector strategies for employment creation: construction, social services and food. (Paper presented at the TIPS/DPRU FORUM 2003, The Challenge of Growth and Poverty: the South African Economy Since Democracy, 8-10 September 2003, Indaba Hotel, Johannesburg).
High and growing rates of unemployment have been a source of great frustration to policy-makers. Although exports have been buoyant and the 1990s has been the first decade of sustained growth, unemployment has been rising by 2 percentage points each year. If the expanded definition is used, the rate of unemployment reached 41.8% in September 2002. In a context where the majority of the unemploy...
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Andrew, N. & Jacobs, P. (2010) Nutrindo a pobreza rural - Relacoes agrarias inalteradas na Africa do Sul. In: De Briti, L., Castel-Branco, C.N., Chichava, S. & Francisco, A. (eds). Pobreza, desigualdade e vulnerabilidade: comunicacoes apresentadas na II conferencia do instituto de estudos sociais e economicos. Maputo: IESE. 151-184.
Aphane, M., Dzivakwi, R. & Jacobs, P. (2010) Livelihood strategies of rural women in Eastern Cape and Limpopo. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 84:64-72.
This analysis of new household data collected in rural Limpopo and the Eastern Cape of South Africa reveals that structural inequalities exist between men and women: many rural women might be better educated than men, but they remain at the bottom of the rural social pyramid. This is evidenced by their limited access to farm and non-farm assets as well as household spending levels below common...
Baiphethi, M. (2008) Measures to increase food production and mitigating against increased food prices: the Malawi case study. (November).
The economy of Malawi is highly dependent on agricultural production and development initiatives in the country have been mostly dependent on improving agricultural production. Furthermore the sector comprises largely of smallholder farmers who produce primarily for own production and only the surplus is marketed. However, as in other parts of SSA the smallholder farming sector's productivity i...
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Baiphethi, M.N. & Jacobs, P.T. (2009) The contribution of subsistence farming to food security in South Africa. (March).
The main aim of this paper is to discuss the contribution of availability of, and access to, improved farm inputs for subsistence/smallholder farmers to improving household food production, and hence food security. This will feed into consideration of the broader questions concerning possible policy interventions to mitigate against the impacts of increased food prices for both the rural and u...
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Baiphethi, M.N. & Jacobs, P.T. (2009) The contribution of subsistence farming to food security in South Africa. (Poster presentation at the 47th AEASA Annual Conference, 21-23 September).
Baiphethi, M.N. & Jacobs, P.T. (2009) The contribution of subsistence farming to food security in South Africa. Agrekon. 48(4):459-482.
Poor households access their food from the market, subsistence production and transfers from public programmes or other households. In the past rural households produced most of their own food, but recent studies have shown an increase in dependence on market purchases by both urban and rural households, in some cases reaching 90% of the food supplies. Food expenditures can account for as much...
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Cross, C., Altman, M.A. & Altman, M.A. (2010) "For us women, working is an unfiulfilled dream": womens' wage work and food security. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 86:25-37.
This article reviews the findings from two small community studies in South Africa on the experience of poor households in respect of the economic downturn, employment, and food security, with special emphasis on gender dynamics. This study was implemented by the Human Sciences Research Council and funded by Oxfam International, and sought to explore the human, social and personal experiences o...
Davids, Y.D. (2006) Poverty in South Africa: extent of access to food and income. HSRC Review. 4(4):16-17.
The majority of South Africans still perceived themselves as lacking enough food and income to meet all their household needs, according to information collected by the HSRC's annual South African Social Attitudes Survey 2003, 2004 and 2005.
de Klerk, M., Drimie, S., Aliber, M., Mini, S., Mokoena, R., Randela, R., Modiselle, S., Vogel, C., de Swardt, C. & Kirsten, J. (2004) Food security in South Africa: key policy issues for the medium term. (Position paper for the National Treasury, January).
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Drimie, S. & Mullins, D. (2005) Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS into livelihoods and food security programmes: the experience of CARE Malawi. (Paper presented at the International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Food and Nutrition Security, International Food Policy Research Institute, Durban, 14-16 April).
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Drimie, S. (2005) Regional vulnerability and food insecurity: unravelling the entangling crises?. (Presentation to the World Vision Roundtable, 8 March).
Drimie, S. (2004) Crisis in southern Africa no longer just about food. HSRC review. 2(2):3.
Drimie, S. (2004) Food insecurity and vulnerability information and mapping system (FIVIMS-ZA). (Paper presented at the Agricultural Trade and Marketing Conference, 2 September).
Drimie, S. (2004) Food security and HIV/AIDS in southern Africa: case studies and implications for future policy. (Paper prepared for Action Aid, April).
Drimie, S. (2004) HIV/AIDS and food security: examples of "best practice" from regional NGOs. (Paper presented at the ActionAid Workshop, Centurion, 10-11 August).
Drimie, S. (2004) HIV/AIDS and food security: preliminary findings for ActionAid. (Paper presented at the ActionAid Workshop on Southern African Food Security and Vulnerability Assessment, 25-27 February 2004, Burger's Park Hotel, Pretoria).
Drimie, S. (2004) National emergency response council on HIV/AIDS, Mbabane, Swaziland. (Paper presented at the NERCHA Intervention: Ensuring food security for orphans and vulnerable children in Swaziland (Indlunkhulu project), 11 February).
Drimie, S. (2004) A study to determine the links between HIV/AIDS, current demographic status and livelihoods in rural Swaziland. (Commissioned by the Swaziland Vulnerability Assessment Committee).
A nationwide survey of rural areas in Swaziland was carried out to analyse the linkages between HIV/AIDS, the demographic trends of the country and how livelihoods and food security status may be changing as a result.
Drimie, S. (2004) The underlying causes of the food crisis in the southern Africa region - Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe. (Commissioned by OXFAM, Great Britain, March).
Drimie, S. (2004) The underlying solutions to the food crisis in the southern Africa region. (Paper presented at the OXFAM-GB Southern Africa Regional Management Team meeting "Breaking the mould?" Rethinking our approach to livelihoods", 25-27 March 2004, Pretoria).
Drimie, S. (2004) What do we know about food insecurity measurement compared to poverty in South Africa?. (Paper presented at the UKZN National Workshop on Food Security. 1-2 June).
Drimie, S. & Mini, S.. (2003) Food security and sustainable development in southern Africa. (Integrated Rural and Regional Development Research Programme, Occasional paper no. 6). Cape Town: HSRC Publishers.
In the search for a Global Deal at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, which sought to address global economic relationships between the North and the South, a crucial area of debate was food security. Despite impressive developments around food growth in recent decades, resulting in enough food to meet the basic needs of every person in the world, not everyone is food-secure, as exemp...
Drimie, S. (2003) Food security in Southern Africa: causes and responses from across the region. (Paper presented at a meeting hosted by the Southern African regional poverty network in collaboration with CARE international and the French Institute of South Africa, 18 March.).
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Drimie, S. (2003) Food security in southern Africa: causes and responses from across the region: workshop report. In Food security in southern Africa: causes and responses from the region. (Les Cahiers de l'IFAS, no. 3). Drimie, S. & Lafon, M. (eds). Johannesburg: Institut Francais d'Afrique du Sud. 7-14.
Drimie, S. & van Zyl, J. (2003) HIV/AIDS and food security: new challenges and new debates: an input for the UNAIDS Scenario Building Process. (Paper submitted to AIDS in Africa: Scenarios for the future, UNAIDS, Geneva, Switzerland).
Drimie, S. (2003) Third round food security assessment: SADC-FANR VAC: regional synthesis. (Summary information: HIV/AIDS and food security. Report).
Drimie, S. (2005) Towards a Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping System for South Africa (FIVIMS-ZA): documentation from the pilot project April 2004-May 2005. (Commissioned by the Department of Agriculture, May).
Drimie, S.E. & Lafon, M. (eds). (2003) Food security in southern Africa: causes and responses from the region. (Les Cahiers de l"IFAS, no. 3). Johannesburg: Institut Francais d'Afrique du Sud.
The food crisis in southern Africa, with its many correlated aspects among which the impact of HIV/AIDS appears particularly compelling, is proving to be, as it unfolds, one of the most serious challenges, if not the most fundamental one the sub-region has been confronted with over a long period of time; it can be argues that the present situation as the population's well being is concerned, be...
Drimie, S.E. (2003) NASFAM funding proposal for the National AIDS Commission. (Prepared by NASFAM. Programmes and Policy Unit: HIV/AIDS Programme, September).
Economic development in rural Malawi lies at the core of the National Smallholder Farmers' Association of Malawi (NASFAM). This objective is underpinned by its intention to empower its smallholder farmer members and to improve their incomes. This has an explicit poverty reduction focus that is shared by the Malawi poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP). The success of both the PRSP and NASF...
Faber, M., Schwabe, C. & Drimie, S. (2008) Dietary diversity in relation to other household food security indicators. International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health. 1(2):157-171.
This article describes dietary diversity in relation to other food security indicators used in a cross-sectional livelihood survey that included 499 randomly selected households within five municipalities in Greater Sekhukhune, Limpopo Province, South Africa. Indicators calculated using data collected by questionnaire included household dietary diversity score (DDS), living standards measure, m...
Fall, C.H.D., Borja, J.B., Osmond, C., Richter, L., Bhargava, S.K., Martorell, R., Stein, A.D., Barros, F.C., Victora, C.G. & Cohorts Group, (2011) Infant-feeding patterns and cardiovascular risk factors in young adulthood: data from five cohorts in low- and middle-income countries. International Journal of Epidemiology. 40:47-62.
Infant-feeding patterns may influence lifelong health. This study tested the hypothesis that longer duration of breastfeeding and later introduction of complementary foods in infancy are associated with reduced adult cardiovascular risk. Methods Data were pooled from 10 912 subjects in the age range of 15-41 years from five prospective birth-cohort studies in low-/middle-income countries (Braz...
Goldman, I., Hart, T., Jacobs, P., Mohlabi, S., Kalonge, S. & Mullins, D. (2010) Development of evidence-based policy around homestead food production. (January).
A substantial proportion of South Africans (possibly 50%) are food insecure and many suffer from nutrient deficiencies. Homestead food production is one element of a strategy for combating food insecurity, and it applies both to urban and rural areas. It also can lead to income savings by substituting for bought food and potentially be the beginning of a route for small-scale income generation....
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Hagg, G. (2006) Arts, culture and food security in Southern Africa. (Commissioned by the South African Department of Arts and Culture, July).
International and regional studies have highlighted the integral relationship between culture and sustainable development. This can be extended into the relationship of arts and culture and food security. Clarity about this relationship is constrained by a number of problems dealing with concepts, policies, structure, capacity and information. As all livelihoods issues, the relationship is comp...
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Hart, T. (2011) Reasons for contemporary food intake of poor households in rural areas of South Africa. (Commissioned by the Water Research Commission, February).
Because the reasons for food intake are determined by a range of factors that vary from individual, household, cultural and ethnic group preferences and also by location, season, income and affordability, historical factors, knowledge and education, and social networks as well as the impact of HIV/AIDS on individuals and households, micro-level case studies are the best means of understanding t...
Hart, T. (2010) Against the odds: rural women who drive food and nutrition security in their communities. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 86:111-120.
Despite the international right to food, many African and South African women face serious challenges in providing food for their families. In particular, these challenges relate to institutional and cultural barriers which restrict their access to education, land, credit and official support services. Despite this prevailing situation, some women are acknowledged as being successful in address...
Hart, T. & Aliber, M. (2010) The need for an engendered approach to agricultural technology. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 84:75-90.
Given the large numbers of South African women involved in some form of agriculture, this Focus argues that a more engendered approach is required for the introduction of agricultural technology in rural areas. Such an approach would make agricultural technology more appropriate to the requirements, roles and responsibilities of female producers. While a number of women are engaged in commercia...
Hart, T. (2010) Some considerations for supporting household food production in South Africa. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 86:78-95.
Recent research on food security in South Africa indicates that household food production is important to household food security in rural areas. While this highlights the constraints experienced by such producers and the contribution of African leafy vegetables to household food security, seemingly little research has considered the gender dimension of this type of agricultural production. Wit...
Hart, T. (2009) Food security definitions, measurements and recent initiatives in South and southern Africa. (March).
This paper reviews the international debate on food security and notes how this has changed during the past thirty years, culminating in a more robust but nuanced way of understanding and measuring the dynamics of food security. The paper then looks at the various challenges faced in Southern Africa and the recent attempts to develop ways to address these challenges. This is followed by a dis...
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Hart, T. (2009) Fruit - general. In: National Research Directory. Pretoria: Rainbow South Africa. 186-189.
Deciduous fruit is grown mainly in the Western Cape, as well as in the Langkloof Valley in the Eastern Cape. Significant table and dried grapes production areas are also along the Orange River and in the Free State, Mpumalanga and Gauteng. Citrus is mainly produced in the irrigation areas of the Limpopo, Mpumalanga, the Eastern and Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. Subtropical crops such as avoca...
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Hart, T., Vorster, I. & Jansen van Rensburg, W. (2009) Indigenous knowledge and African vegatables. In: National Research Directory. Johannesburg: Rainbow South Africa. 209-214.
Indigenous Knowledge (IK) is the unique, traditional, local knowledge existing within and developed around specific conditions of women and men indigenous to a particular geographic area. In some instances external or scientific knowledge is combined with indigenous knowledge during the innovation process. Consequently indigenous knowledge is dynamic and continually evolves and changes as it d...
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Hart, T. (2005) Local innovations using traditional vegetables to improve soil quality. IK notes. 79:1-4.
Hart, T.G.B. (2011) The significance of African vegetables in ensuring food security for South Africa's rural poor. Agriculture and Human Values. 28(3):321-333.
Technologies and services provided to resource-poor farmers need to be relevant and compatible with the context in which they operate. This paper examines the contribution of extension services to the food security of resource-poor farmers in a rural village in South Africa. It considers these in terms of the local context and the production of African vegetables in household food plots. A mixt...
Hart, T.G.B. (2009) Exploring definitions of food insecurity and vulnerability: time to refocus assessments. Agrekon. 48(4):362-383.
Recent high food prices and changes in the world food situation are exacerbating the conditions of households that are vulnerable to food insecurity, especially those with weak livelihood strategies. To address the impact of these and other stressors it is necessary to develop a deeper understanding of concepts such as 'vulnerability' and 'food insecurity'. This is challenging as both concepts...
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Human Sciences Research Council (2007) Downstream social monitoring study: nutrition, food security and selected public health issues in IFR reaches: IFR 1, IFR 2, IFR 3, IFR 7 and IFR 9. Volume III. (Commissioned by the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, December).
Human Sciences Research Council (2007) Draft protocol for social monitoring in the downstream areas of the LHWP. Use of riverine resources by individuals and households; income and standards of living of households; nutritional and food security indicators; selected public health indicators. (Commissioned by the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, November).
Jacobs, P. (2011) CWP & ECD: meeting childhood food and nutrition security challenge. (Paper presented at the CWP-ECD Workshop, Durban, 15 June).
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Jacobs, P. (2011) Introduction to the CWP-ECD facilitation tool. (Paper presented at the CWP-ECD Workshop, Durban, 15 June).
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Jacobs, P. (2011) Outcome 7: vibrant, equitable and sustainable rural communities and food security for all. (Paper presented at the Appropriations committee: Budget on Outcome 7: Food Security and Rural Development, 20 April).
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Jacobs, P. (2011) Protect food insecure households against rapid food price inflation. (Paper presented at the HSRC Social Sciences Conference, Birchwood Conference Centre, Benoni, 7-8 September).
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Jacobs, P., Aphane, M. & Dzivakwi, R. (2010) Food buying patterns in rural Eastern Cape and Limpopo. HSRC Review. 8(4):3-4.
How rural households meet their food needs is shifting the food-security policy debate. This became clear from research collected from both female- and male-headed households in rural Eastern Cape and Limpopo. PETER JACOBS, MOGAU APHANE and ROBERT DZIVAKWI report.
Jacobs, P. (2010) Household food insecurity, rapid food price inflation and the economic downturn in South Africa. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 86:38-51.
Has the dramatic rise in food price inflation between 2007 and 2009 and the 2008-2009 economic downturn affected experiences of household hunger in South Africa? Two intersecting livelihood shocks rapid food price inflation and the global economic downturn affected virtually all South Africans in 2008. The 2008 General Household Survey shows a rise in household experiences of hunger in the orde...
Jacobs, P. & Simbayi, L. (2010) HSRC presentation to the Standing Committee on Appropriations. (Paper presented to the Standing Committee on Appropriations, Parliament, 23 April).
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Jacobs, P. (2010) Identifying a target for food security in South Africa. (Paper presented at the AGREKON Launch, 12 May).
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Jacobs, P. (2009) Identifying a target for food security in South Africa. (Paper presented at the AEASA Conference, Durban, 22 September).
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Jacobs, P. (2009) Identifying targets for household food security in South Africa. (March).
This paper is organised as follows: Section 2 investigates the basic composition of food security targets. It underscores the importance of household characteristics and contextual determinants of food insecurity. Given the centrality of measurable indicators on which to base any food security target, section 3 presents a critical evaluation of three classes of food security indicators: food a...
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Jacobs, P. (2009) South Africa's agro-food sector and the global economic downturn. (Paper presented at the HSRC Conference, Birchwoord Conference Centre, Benoni, 17 September).
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Jacobs, P.T. (2011) Agro-food market policy and food security in South Africa. Development in Practice. 21(4-5):642-651.
South Africa experienced two waves of rapid food inflation in 2001-02 and 2007-08. During both periods the surge in the cost of food undermined the food-security status of low-income families. Belated state reactions to the food-price crises pay scant attention to the fact that poor net food buyers rely on agro-food markets for their food supplies. Moreover, the touted non-interference of the s...
Jacobs, P.T. (2009) The status of household food security targets in South Africa. Agrekon. 48(4):410-433.
This article investigates the conceptual and methodological challenges to develop a set of baseline indicators for South African food security targets. A food security target is a well-defined and measurable goal to reduce the numbers of people who lack enough food of the right quality to live healthy lives. To derive baseline indicators for household food security, the following question is a...
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Jensen, G.L., Mirtallo, J., Compher, C., Dhaliwal, R., Forbes, A., Grijalba, R.F., Hardy, G., Kondrup, J., Labadarios, D., Nyulasi, I., Pineda, J.C.C. & Waitzberg, D. (2010) Adult starvation and disease-related malnutrition: a proposal for etiology-based diagnosis in the clinical practice setting from the International Consensus Guideline Committee. Clinical Nutrition. Online:1-3.
Background & aims: Multiple definitions for malnutrition syndromes are found in the literature resulting in confusion. Recent evidence suggests that varying degrees of acute or chronic inflammation are key contributing factors in the pathophysiology of malnutrition that is associated with disease or injury. Methods: An International Guideline Committee was constituted to develop a consensus ap...
Labadarios, D., Steyn, N.P. & Nel, J. (2011) How diverse are our diets?. HSRC Review. 9(3):4.
For many South Africans, particularly those living in rural areas and informal settlements, our diet is simply not diverse enough, find DEMETRE LABADARIOS, NELIA PATRICIA STEYN and JOHANNA NEL.
Labadarios, D., Steyn, N.P. & Nel, J. (2011) How diverse is the diet of adult South Africans?. Nutrition. 10:Online.
Background: The objective of the current study was to measure dietary diversity in South Africans aged 16 years and older from all population groups as a proxy of food security. Methods: A cross-sectional study representative of adults from all specified ages, provinces, geographic localities, and socio-economic strata in South Africa was used (n = 3287). Trained interviewers visited participa...
Labadarios, D., Davids, Y.D., Mciza, Z. & Weir-Smith, G. (2009) The assessment of food insecurity in South Africa. (March).
This paper aims to provide a synopsis of available national data sets which may contribute to our better understanding of how food security is conceptualised, defined and assessed within the context of South Africa. More specifically, the paper aims to show that a number of such data sets using different parameters have been used to inform policy and strategies aimed at addressing food insecuri...
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Ladzani, R. (2009) The impact of HIV and AIDS on food security and nutrition in South Africa. (March).
Food security and nutrition are an outcome of national incomes, as household food security requires goods and services to be produced by the national economy. AIDS affects agricultural production and subsequently household food security. HIV-infected persons are limited in generating an income or producing food for their households. Therefore a synergistic relationship exists between HIV infec...
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Lorentzen, J. (2011) Food on the table and disease at the door: insights from low-income countries and regions for measuring innovation. Innovation and Development. 1(1):77-89.
An important discussion regarding innovation indicators concerns their relationship with theory. It is theory that tells us something about cause effect relationships and other patterns, which in turn suggests what indicators to collect for which purpose. Therefore, as theory advances, indicator methodologies can be expected to change as well. If they do not, they may become irrelevant or victi...
Makhura, M. & Mokoena, M.R. (2003) Market access for small-scale farmers in South Africa. In The challenge of change: agriculture, land and the South African economy. Nieuwoudt, L. & Groenewald, J. (eds). Durban: University of Natal Press.
Mashinini, M.S., Sithole, M.M. & Mabuza, M.L. (2011) Contribution of input trade fairs to food security in rural Swaziland: case study of households under the Ngwempisi constituency. African Journal of Agricultural Research. 6(10):2436-2446.
The objective of the study was to determine the contribution of input trade fairs (ITFs) to household food security in rural Swaziland. Given the prevailing drought condition, a number of interventions, including ITFs, have been attempted to mitigate the effects of natural disasters on the livelihoods of rural households. Through a survey of 92 randomly selected households, a regression model w...
Matshe, I. (2009) Boosting smallholder production for food security: some approaches and evidence from studies in sub-Saharan Africa. Agrekon. 48(4):483-511.
This paper uses the sustainable livelihoods framework to explore the contribution of smallholder production to food security in some sub-Saharan African countries and relates it to the South African case. Noting that many of the world's hungry are smallholder farmers, it is clear that food insecurity is closely linked to the livelihood strategies of these farm households. As previous studies ha...
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Matshe, I. (2009) Contribution of smallholder production to food security: evidence from sub-Saharan Africa. (March).
This paper explores the contribution of smallholder production to food security in sub-Saharan Africa and relates it to the South African case. Noting that the world's hungry are smallholder farmers, it is established that food insecurity is closely linked to the livelihood strategies of these farm households. It is apparent, however, that part of what drives food insecurity is poverty, and tha...
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Mdladla, P., Marsland, N., van Zyl, J. & Drimie, S. (2003) Towards identifying the vulnerability of HIV/AIDS affected households to food insecurity: the RVAC-UNAIDS experience: challenges and opportunities. (Paper presented to the United Nations Regional Inter-Agency Coordinating and Support Office, "Measuring the impact of HIV/AIDS on food insecurity", 9-11 September, Johannesburg).
This paper provides an overview of attempts to focus an HIV/AIDS lens on the data generated during the Vulnerability Assessment Committee surveys in August 2002, December 2002 and April to June 2003. The objective was to further the understanding of the impacts of HIV/AIDS on household food insecurity in southern Africa. The final part of the paper includes suggestions for an improved approa...
Monde, N., Fraser, G., Botha, J.J. & Anderson, K. (2006) Making home gardening a viable livelihood option in rural areas of South Africa: the case of Guquka and Khayalethu in central Eastern Cape. (Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Environmental Management for Sustainable Universities, Steven's Point, Wisconsin, USA, 26-30 June).
Motala, S. (2010) Food and nutrition security: for SA households and children. (Paper presented at the KPAC ECD Technical Committee Meeting, 5 August).
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Motala, S. (2010) Giving realisation to the 'right to food'. Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity. 86:307.
The right to food is a fundamental human right enshrined in international law. Evidence suggests that there has been little progress towards achieving this right. This introduction to this special issue explores the meaning of this right and, based on available evidence, suggests that to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty, a necessary precondition is that gender equality...
Peltzer, K., Mlambo, M., Matseke, G., Shikwane, E., Louw, J. & Kekana, Q. (2011) Report on PMTCT comprehensive community intervention package including male involvement, infant follow-up, peer support, partner violence and infant feeding in Nkangala district, Mpumalanga province. (Commissioned by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), December).
With around 2.7 million people becoming infected with HIV in 2010, there are now an estimated 34 million people around the world who are living with HIV, including millions who have developed AIDS (UNAIDS, 2011). Studies have shown that there is much that can be done to reduce AIDS impact beginning with the transmission of HIV (UNAIDS, 2011). In 2010, around 390,000 children under the age of 1...
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Reddy, V. & Moletsane, R. (2009) The gendered dimensions of food security in South Africa: a review of the literature. (March).
The study establishes that interventions addressing food insecurity in its gendered context imply that women are playing key roles in households and that to meet the food gaps, a combination of factors need to be employed by women and girls that must be supported by the policy framework. Consequently, gender needs to be more strongly foregrounded as a feature of the policy framework; more tar...
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Rule, S., Aird, R., Drimie, S., Faber, M., Germishuyse, T., Jordaan, A., Kok, P.C., Roberts, B., Roefs, M., Schonfeldt, H., Schwabe, C., Van Lieshout, M., Van Zyl, J. & Vermeulen, H. (2005) Report on survey in Sekhukhune to pilot the development of a food insecurity and vulnerability modelling system (FIVIMS) for South Africa. (Commissioned by the FIVIMS Consortium, March).
The data has been analysed and presented in this report to enable potential users of FIVIMS to understand vulnerability and food insecurity in Sekhukhune through the description and characterisation of diverse livelihood strategies and the measurement of key food security outcomes.
Temple, N.J. & Steyn, N.P. (2010) The cost of a healthy diet: a South African perspective. Nutrition. Online:November.
Energy-dense foods are relatively cheap sources of energy but typically have a low nutrient density. People with a low income may therefore select a relatively less healthy diet. The high energy density of such diets helps explain the association between obesity and low socioeconomic status. Most studies have been carried out in highly developed countries. We have extended this research to S...