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Impact of cash cropping on smallholder farming households’ food security in Shamva District, Zimbabwe.
(2017)
Over 1.5 million Zimbabweans were food insecure in the 2015/2016 season, with the majority being in the rural areas. Land reform programmes have been implemented to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. Smallholder ...
Urban and peri-urban agriculture: an analysis of the perceptions and use of food sovereignty among low-income dwellers in Harare, Zimbabwe.
(2018)
Urbanisation has transfigured the urban landscape and heightened food acquisition within cities. Urbanisation, coupled with systemic socio-economic, political and climatic challenges, has heightened food security concerns. ...
A synthesis of rural livelihood approaches in analysing household poverty, food security and resilience: A case study of Rushinga rural district in Zimbabwe.
(2018)
Understanding rural livelihoods is an important goal to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals in Zimbabwe, in particular eradicating poverty and food insecurity in every household. Even though livelihoods of the rural ...
Integration of indigenous knowledge systems and modern climate science: development of a mobile application to improve smallholder agricultural production.
(2019)
In sub Saharan Africa, subsistence agriculture underpins rural livelihoods. However, climate change has negatively affected rural smallholder farming due to over-dependence on climate-sensitive rain-fed agriculture. The ...
A gendered analysis on the role and potential of goat production to improve income and food security in semi-arid areas of South Africa.
(2020)
Small scale goat farming has a potential to contribute to livelihoods particularly in semi-arid areas where rainfall is erratic and crop farming is too risky. The broad objective of the study was to conduct a gendered ...
Exploring agricultural knowledge systems and smallholder farmers empowerment: implication on household food security.
(2020)
The association between the various actors of knowledge and the generation of common
knowledge is expanding in agricultural sector. Smallholder farmers engages in multiple
informative networks both formal and informal ...
Nutritional, sensory and health-promoting properties of provitamin A-biofortified maize stiff porridges and extruded snacks.
(2015)
Provitamin A-biofortified maize has been developed to contribute to the alleviation of vitamin A deficiency (VAD), which is prevalent in the sub-Saharan African region where vitamin A- deficient white maize is a leading ...
Chiefdom development plan : implications for food security in Swaziland.
(2015)
The Lower Usuthu Smallholder Irrigation Project (LUSIP) aims to reduce poverty and improve food security among rural households in Swaziland. Beneficiaries organise themselves into "agricultural cooperatives", each of which ...
The status of food and nutrition security policies and institutional framework in Eswatini.
(2022)
Overview of this paper
Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) has a number of components in it; institutions, policies,
programs, and projects. This research looked at all of these and the relationship to one another.
Hence ...
Impact of crop productivity and market participation on rural households’ food and nutrition security status: the case of Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces, South Africa.
(2022)
The agricultural sector has proven to be the backbone of improving rural households’ food
security and livelihoods in developing countries. However, the sector faces numerous
challenges, such as insufficient access to ...