Household food security status in South Africa
SOURCE: Agrekon
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2009
TITLE AUTHOR(S): M.Altman, T.G.B.Hart, P.T.Jacobs
KEYWORDS: FARMERS, FOOD SECURITY, POVERTY, SOCIAL GRANTS
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 6182
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/4425
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4425
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2009
TITLE AUTHOR(S): M.Altman, T.G.B.Hart, P.T.Jacobs
KEYWORDS: FARMERS, FOOD SECURITY, POVERTY, SOCIAL GRANTS
Intranet: HSRC Library: shelf number 6182
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/4425
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/4425
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Abstract
The Human Sciences Research Council has established a policy research initiative to monitor household food security and to identify and evaluate policy options. In this special edition, a selection of articles from this project is assembled. While deep chronic hunger has fallen with the expansion of the social grants, under-nutrition is a very serious and widespread challenge. This special edition draws together the best available evidence on household food security with the aim of stimulating wider debate.-
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