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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"World Food Program"”.
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A Regional Approach to Analysis of Food Security Framework and Policies of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
<p>Food security is always a concern for consumers, but especially for those in West Africa, where the population of food insecure people has continued to grow over the past decade despite attempts by initiatives such as the World Food Program and the establishment of Millennium Development Goals. …
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The Impact of Groundnut Production and Marketing Decisions upon Household Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa: Does Gender Matter?
… groundnut cash cropping decisions and household food security in two regions of sub-Saharan Africa. Particular attention is paid to how the gender of groundnut growers influences this relationship. Additionally, the thesis examines how gender influences household marketing decisions. Household …
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Food Security and Social Networks: Impacts for Smallholder Farmers in the Mount Elgon Region of Kenya and Uganda
… between smallholder farm household networks for food acquisition and agricultural production, food security and dietary quality in the Mount Elgon region of western Kenya and eastern Uganda. Food security and dietary quality were measured through calorie consumption of the female household head …
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Food security in less developed countries: assessing the effects of food aid in rural Kenya as a food supply shock on consumption and nutrition
Food Security can be defined in terms of establishing national or regional minimum nutritional standards, or in terms of securing national or regional self-sufficiency production levels. In this research, food security is viewed from a nutritional-economic standpoint. The prevalence of severe …
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Food aid and economic development: impact of food for work on labor allocation, production and consumption behavior of small family-farms in a semi-arid area of Kenya
Food-for-Work (FFW) was conceived as both a short-run assistance program for meeting basic food needs of low income households, and as a long-run developmental tool for building infrastructure and for providing income to ease capital constraints on farm production. However, it was feared that FFW …
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Household Food Security in Developing Countries: Understanding the Role of Dynamic Natural and Social Systems
… of consistent and reliable levels of nutritious food may be one of the most brutal results of poverty. Beyond the human suffering, the lack of food security has damaging economic consequences, making it difficult for communities to break poverty cycles. This dissertation studies the various …
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El Sistema de Protección Social en Colombia y el aporte del Programa Mundial de Alimentos para su mejora: población migrante en situación de vulnerabilidad y su ingreso al sistema
… Capstone entre la Universidad del Rosario y el Programa Mundial de Alimentos (WFP, por sus siglas en inglés), en el cual se busca alcanzar el objetivo de caracterizar las personas migrantes que se encuentran en el Sistema de Protección Social mediante el Sistema de Identificación de Potenciales …