It is well-established that armed political conflict has a detrimental effect on food security and household welfare: conflict induces food insecurity by reducing own food production, access to food through the market, and various other resources to sustain healthy and productive lives. One way of...
Author(s)
Tusiime, H. A.; Renard, R.; Smets, L.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Food Policy, 2013, 43, pp 14-22
A review of the operations of the World Food Programme (WFP) during 2005 is presented. WFP is primarily geared towards the elimination of hunger in the world and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals on poverty and hunger. Over 90% of the WFP's development resources went to the...
Publisher
World Food Programme, Rome, Italy
Citation
Annual Report - World Food Programme, 2005, 2005, pp 61 pp.
This annual report describes the World Food Programme's (WFP's) humanitarian response of providing food to areas greatly affected by natural disasters in 2007, such as Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh, hurricanes and floods in Latin America and the Caribbean, Hurricane Felix in Nicaragua, tropical storm...
Publisher
World Food Programme, Rome, Italy
Citation
Annual Report - World Food Programme, 2007: be part of the solution, 2007, pp 48 pp.
Despite Uganda's plentiful of food production, the awareness that food security affects national development and the existence of government's food policy, food access remains a big challenge to many households. What explains persistent food insecurity in a food sanctuary in East Africa? While...
Publisher
International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology Press (IACSIT), Jurong West, Singapore
Citation
International Proceedings of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering (IPCBEE), 2016, 92, pp 58-65
Cities in sub-Saharan Africa are characterised by rapid urban sprawl, which has implications for urban food accessibility. Urban sprawl results in inefficient structures of cities, and is often related to patterns of socioeconomic segregation. An important research gap in food accessibility studies ...
Author(s)
Hemerijckx, L. M.; Janusz, K.; Emelen, S. van; Tumwesigye, S.; Davis, J.; Lwasa, S.; Rompaey, A. van
Publisher
Springer, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation
Food Security, 2022, 14, 3, pp 677-694
Food Security continues to be elusive in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), several decades after the first World Food Summit in 1974. The causes of food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa include among others; poverty, economic constraints, agricultural and agronomical challenges, rapid population growth,...
Author(s)
Mukuve, F. M.; Fenner, R. A.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Food Policy, 2015, 51, pp 24-37
We assessed food insecurity, dietary diversity and the right to adequate food among households in communities in Eastern Uganda that were affected by major landslides in 2010 and 2018. A prospective cohort study was applied to select 422 households during May-August (the food-plenty season) of...
Author(s)
Nahalomo, A.; Iversen, P. O.; Andreassen, B. A.; Kaaya, A.; Rukooko, A. B.; Rukundo, P. M.
Publisher
Public Library of Sciences (PLoS), San Francisco, USA
Citation
PLoS ONE, 2023, 18, 4,
We examine violent conflict's spillover effects on food insecurity in Uganda, Ethiopia, and Malawi. Using a contiguity matrix weighted on the distance between housing units and data from the Living Standard Measurement Survey, we find a statistically significant spillover effect of violent conflict ...
Author(s)
Muriuki, J.; Hudson, D.; Fuad, S.; March, R. J.; Lacombe, D. J.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Food Policy, 2023, 115,
Food insecurity remains a serious challenge for many households in Africa and the situation is even more prevalent among young people. However, there is a dearth of empirical evidence on youth food security status in Africa. We assessed the level and determinants of food security among young...
Author(s)
Adeyanju, D.; Mburu, J.; Gituro, W.; Chumo, C.; Mignouna, D.; Ogunniyi, A.; Akomolafe, J. K.; Ejima, J.
Publisher
SpringerOpen, Berlin, Germany
Citation
Agricultural and Food Economics, 2023, 11, 4, pp (23 February 2023)
Background: Climate change is expected to decrease food security globally. Many Indigenous communities have heightened sensitivity to climate change and food insecurity for multifactorial reasons including close relationships with the local environment and socioeconomic inequities which increase...
Author(s)
Bryson, J. M.; Patterson, K.; Berrang-Ford, L.; Lwasa, S.; Namanya, D. B.; Twesigomwe, S.; Kesande, C.; Ford, J. D.; Harper, S. L.
Publisher
Public Library of Sciences (PLoS), San Francisco, USA
Citation
PLoS ONE, 2021, 16, 3,