Background: The global food system is not delivering affordable, healthy, diverse diets, which are needed to address malnutrition in all its forms for sustainable development. This will require policy change across the economic sectors that govern food systems, including agriculture, trade,...
Author(s)
Thow, A. M.; Apprey, C.; Winters, J.; Stellmach, D.; Alders, R.; Aduku, L. N. E.; Mulcahy, G.; Annan, R.
Publisher
Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
Citation
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2021, 10, 12, pp 909-922
According to the World Resources Institute, about one in every four calories produced for human consumption globally is not eventually consumed by humans. In sub-Saharan Africa, postharvest food loss (PHL) alone accounts for 20-30% of annual production, with an estimated value of 1.6 billion USD....
Author(s)
Kansanga, M. M.; Mohammed, K.; Batung, E.; Saaka, S. A.; Luginaah, I.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, UK
Citation
International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology, 2023, 30, 7, pp 776-791
National aggregate data to analyze food security status at the national level has often been used in many countries including Ghana to determine food security status. This has been a reason that many interventions that have had minimum or no impact on households' food security status due to...
Author(s)
Antwi, K. D.; Lyford, C. P.
Publisher
Imo State University, Owerri, Nigeria
Citation
Journal of Agriculture and Food Sciences, 2022, 19, 2, pp 86-94
The urban population in Sub-Saharan Africa is projected to expand by nearly 800 million people in the next 30 years. How this rapid urban transition is affecting household-level urban food security, and reverberating into broader food systems, is poorly understood. To fill this gap, we use data...
Author(s)
Tuholske, C.; Andam, K.; Blekking, J.; Evans, T.; Caylor, K.
Publisher
Springer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Food Security, 2020, 12, 2, pp 417-431
Ghana's agricultural sector plays a vital role in income generation, foreign exchange earnings, employment, and food security for over 70 percent of its people. Despite the significant role of the crop production sector, limited attention has been given to maximizing its potential to address food...
Publisher
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
Citation
Maximizing nutrition in crop production: a guidance note on impact pathways for mainstreaming nutrition based on a case study from Ghana, 2021, pp 46 pp.
The issue of food insecurity has been well documented to be severe in northern Ghana. Several attempts have been made to curb the situation, but the effects of these interventions are unknown. Using responses from 405 rural households, this paper estimates the determinants of food insecurity in the ...
Author(s)
Kolog, J. D.; Asem, F. E.; Mensah-Bonsu, A.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Scientific African, 2023, 19,
Diets are changing globally, as agricultural and food systems have become globalised. Understanding how patterns of globalisation affect welfare is a key development question, but we know little about the way that the globalisation of food systems impacts different groups. This study explores food...
Author(s)
Stevano, S.; Johnston, D.; Codjoe, E.
Publisher
Routledge, Abingdon, UK
Citation
Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56, 6, pp 1177-1189
The urban population in Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) is expected to expand rapidly from 376 million people in 2015 to more than 1.25 billion people by 2050. Measuring and ensuring food security among urban households will become an increasingly pertinent task for development researchers and...
Author(s)
Tuholske, C.; Andam, K. S.; Blekking, J.; Evans, T.; Caylor, K.
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C., USA
Citation
GSSP Working Paper - Ghana Strategy Support Program, 2018, No.50, pp iii + 17 pp.
Solutions to food security issues at all levels typically include a call for more and better data. This paper finds that food security data problems are only partially remedied by gathering more data or applying new and innovative metrics. Examination of various research in Ghana covering published ...
Publisher
Research Committee on Sociology of Agriculture and Food (RC40), Toronto, Canada
Citation
International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 2022, 28, 1, pp 59-72
While the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on household food security have been documented, the intensity and forms of food insecurity in urban households in the Global South have not been adequately explored. This is despite the emerging consensus that impacts of the pandemic were more severe in...
Author(s)
Onyango, E. O.; Owusu, B.; Crush, J. S.
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Land, 2023, 12, 2,