This thesis deals with rural livelihoods and how government food security interventions affect household food security status in one of the chronically food insecure districts of Amhara region, Ethiopia. The thesis is composed of seven chapters. Chapter two presents an overview of the main concepts ...

Food security is a condition whereby "all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life" (FAO World Food Summit, 1996). Globally, food production has kept ahead of...

This thesis aims to understand how changes in Brazil's National School Feeding Programme (PNAE) occur, and to gain insights into the dynamics of translating PNAE policy values into the concrete in the context of a large school food programme. To meet these objectives, the research uses an embedded...

Food security concerns and arguments have made a revival in European Union (EU) governance since the 2007-8 and 2010 global food price crises. This renaissance of food security has been accompanied by increasing awareness among scholars and policymakers about high degrees of complexity,...

This thesis is about food security policies, programming and people's livelihood strategies in post-conflict northern Uganda. The findings relate to the domains of (a) local people and their responses, (b) agricultural service governance and development, and (c) humanitarian response and...

This thesis uses experimental and quasi-experimental data from 25 villages and a total of 1105 farmers from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to investigate the relationship among agricultural training, the adoption of agricultural technologies, crop productivity, and household food insecurity...

This thesis was part of a project of the European Commission called VEG-i-TRADE, aimed at identifying possible impacts of climate change and globalization on the safety of fresh produce. VEG-i-TRADE formed a multidisciplinary team of scientists from different disciplines, representatives from the...

The general objective of this study was to assess the contribution of microcredit access of rural women in Uganda to production and household food security and to determine the factors that enhance or limit food security outcomes. The study was conducted among female microcredit recipients of BRAC, ...

This study aimed to refine and to reapply the instrument for Food Safety Culture (FSC) characterization validated by Galvão, Ferreira and Balian (2020), making adjustments to some items that compose it, in order to reduce the induction of undesirable responses and biases. The original instrument...

This thesis explores the need for, potential of, challenges and constraints regarding, and necessary steps to enhance the conservation and use of crop genetic diversity. The research starts with an investigation of the state of diversity in global food supplies, finding that national food supplies...