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Research outputs: FOOD SECURITY
2014 Exploring the relationships among food insecurity, alcohol use, and sexual risk taking among men and women living in South African townships
South African townships have among the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. Considerable research on understanding the high rates of...
2014 Food security in South Africa: status quo and policy imperatives
Although the term itself was only developed in the 1970s, food security has played a central role in policies that have shaped the history ...
2014 Food insecure household coping strategies: the case of a low income neighborhood in South Africa
Food security can be defined as a state in which all people in a household have at all times have both physical and economic access to suffi...
Download this report2013 You are what you eat and you eat what you can afford
Despite the significant improvements in food security recorded since 2008, food security and hunger remains a serious issue in the country. ...