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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"food poverty"”.
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The changing face of food poverty with special reference to Wales
… austerity policies, the growth of the emergency food aid landscape has become recognisable through the ‘food bank’. These places of charitable food-redistribution have seen their presence increase within an evolving social policy context. Understanding food bank use as two modes of ‘experience’, …
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The nature of food poverty : Literature review and qualitative study in Greenwich (UK)
Food poverty is often associated to food banks which are actually a crisis response to the immediate needs of people without enough money for food. Nevertheless, food poverty also includes underlying food insecurity. Less evident, this long-term condition is being experienced by many more people …
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Three Essays on Money Input and Time Input in Food Poverty Measurement and Healthy Eating Index
… This dissertation addresses the relation of food and health by analyzing the money and time inputs in food, the food poverty measurement, and a corresponding health outcome. The second chapter extends the current food poverty measure in headcount and proposes a set of Foster, Greer, and …
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Civil Society Organisations and Food Poverty in the UK: A Case Study of the London Borough of Islington
Civil society food poverty organisations (CSFPOs) have started to emerge in greater number since the ‘punitive’ turn in the neoliberal project following the 2008 global financial crisis. Academic interest in CSFPOs has begun to engage with the implications of this essentially new sector of civil …
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Progress towards achieving the United Nations' first Millennium Development Goal: an analysis of income and food poverty in Nigeria's states of Osun and Jigawa
… the levels and determinants of income and food poverty in Nigeria’s States of Osun and Jigawa to assess the progress towards attaining the United Nations Millennium Development Goals’(MDGs) targets on poverty reduction in these states in order to verify claims of previous studies and …
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Househood demand for comodities in Zambia: an Emperical assessment in context of food insecurity
It is known that Zambia's population has high food poverty and about 82% of the population in most parts of the country are said to be vulnerable to food insecurity (MoFNP, 2006). The extent of food poverty is particularly more prevalent in rural areas and among the poor people. The high food …
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Importance of utilization of social capital in agro-based poverty reduction strategies in smallholder farming area in North-Eastern Zimbabwe
… been introduced in Zimbabwe aiming to reduce poverty in smallholder farming communities. However, limited success has been realized. This highlights the need for finding lasting solutions to this challenge. The current study investigated how poverty could be tackled considering its linkages …
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Investigating household energy poverty in South Africa by using unidimensional and multidimensional measures
… tracking and monitoring energy access and energy poverty. Earlier efforts have focused on measuring energy poverty from a unidimensional perspective while recent efforts have focused on a multidimensional measurement. However, the growing trend in tracking and monitoring energy poverty using …
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Contribution of small-scale food vending to rural livelihoods in Thulamela Municipality of Limpopo Province in South Africa
Ready to eat foods and beverages prepared and/or sold by vendors and hawkers, especially in streets and other public places are referred to as small-scale foods. Throughout the world small scale food vending is a common means of earning a living. However, in South Africa information on the …
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The free basic water policy of South Africa : an evaluation of its implementation
… system introduced and the resulting wide-spread poverty. Inequalities are particularly evident in the quality of services provided to different areas, which are in the majority still defined by race. The majority of White households have very good service provision, with water piped directly into …
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Food Social Design. Design contro la Povertà Alimentare
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