Policy interest often focuses on specific instruments that effectively enhance household resilience to food security shocks. Based on microeconomic household demand and resilience theory, this paper...
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Highlights: CSA is positively associated with land productivity. CSA is also positively associated with food security. The bundled use of CSA practices offers greater land productivity...
The penetration of digital technologies to enhance market participation by farmers, and intensify farmers' access to support services such as finance, farm inputs, and agricultural production information is on the rise...
Africa risk achieving its food security target due to the predominance of open field rain-fed production systems, worsening climate change impacts , environmentally...
This report presents the design and results of a baseline survey with respect to a project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) focusing on empowering women in small-scale fisheries. The project...
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Weather shocks, proxied by heat stress and drought, are found to reduce food security.
Heat stress cause stronger adverse effects on food...
Underutilized legumes are a good source of plant proteins, but they exhibit a hard-to-cook nature and poor digestibility due to the presence of anti-nutritional factors. This study focused on the factors...
This paper reviewed a body of literature on climate adaptation options in sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) smallholding agriculture and complemented it with a case study involving experts interviews, focus...
Though fisheries can contribute to nutritional needs, food security, poverty alleviation, and sustainable natural resource management in many developing countries, their role in the achievement...
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The study examines the factors influencing food security of households in Ghana.
Food consumption score was used to measure the food security of the household...