Hunger And Poverty In South Africa

Author : Jacqueline Hanoman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315406046

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Hunger and Poverty in South Africa by Jacqueline Hanoman Pdf

Hunger and Poverty in South Africa: The Hidden Faces of Food Insecurity explores food insecurity as an issue of socioeconomic, political, cultural and environmental inequity and inequality. Based on extensive original research in Free State Province, South Africa, the book explores how people living in poverty make meaning of their food circumstances within the socio-cultural, political and economic contexts of post-apartheid South Africa, how they view the government’s food security policies and programs and their perceived agency to affect change. The personal narratives contained in the book show that food insecurity is shaped by many issues, among which are structural poverty, racism, attempts or non-attempts at reconciliation during and after apartheid, public health issues such as HIV/AIDS, and environmental circumstances. At a time when most discourse around food insecurity focuses on how to provide more food to people facing hunger, this book's multidimensional approach is a valuable contribution to the contemporary dialogue on poverty, food security/insecurity, sustainability and democratic agency both within South Africa and around the world. This book will be of interest to researchers in the areas of food security, multidimensional poverty, democratic agency and sustainable development, both in South Africa and internationally.

Author : Fofana, Ismaël,Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret,Mabugu, Ramos
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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South Africa milestones to achieving the sustainable development goals on poverty and hunger by Fofana, Ismaël,Chitiga-Mabugu, Margaret,Mabugu, Ramos Pdf

South Africa has signed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and placed poverty and inequality reduction at the forefront of its National Development Plan. This study links a nonparametric income distribution (micro) simulation model and an economywide general equilibrium (macro) model to define the milestones South Africa must meet to halve poverty and end hunger by 2030 as targeted by the SDGs. The current economic growth of 2.0 percent on average annually must be accelerated to 4.5 percent between 2015 and 2030 to achieve the SDGs on poverty and hunger. Although an income growth strategy is important to reduce hunger, an income redistribution strategy of expanding social assistance to cover 10 percent of the population—that is, nearly 7 million persons—appears to be a key to ending hunger by 2030. Rural areas should be targeted for intervention to reduce income inequality. Skilled and high-skilled labor markets offer better employment and earning opportunities in these geographic areas than do the markets for other skill levels. Thus, skill development programs in these areas are likely to contribute to meeting the SDGs on poverty and hunger by 2030.

Author : Sakiko Fukuda-Parr,Viviene Taylor
Publisher : Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781775820727

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Food Security in South Africa by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr,Viviene Taylor Pdf

The right to food is guaranteed in South Africa’s Constitution as it is in international law. Yet food insecurity remains widespread and persistent, at levels much higher than in countries with similar levels of per capita GDP and development, such as Brazil. In this book, leading local and international researchers on food security and related policy work have come together to create the first systematic and trans-disciplinary analysis of food security and its multiple dimensions in South Africa and the southern African region. Drawing on Amartya Sen’s entitlement theory to identify the key drivers of hunger, they see food insecurity as a chronic, structurally based condition rather than only resulting from natural environmental disasters, temporary economic shocks and household vulnerabilities. The authors focus on a range of policy options and choices to provide short-term and longer-term solutions to the systemic causes of unemployment, failing rural livelihoods and traditional subsistence production. They also emphasise the linkages between the social and economic dimensions of food insecurity and use an integrative, interdisciplinary approach to analyse the reasons why these conditions persist and what can be done to address them. Importantly the book brings together work undertaken at local and national levels in new ways so that policy-makers, researchers, human rights advocates and social and economic scholars are better able to make the links between macro- and micro-processes of development.

Author : Joan G. Fairweather
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552381922

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A Common Hunger by Joan G. Fairweather Pdf

The impact of colonial dispossession and the subsequent social and political ramifications places a unique burden on governments having to establish equitable means of addressing previous injustices. This book considers the efforts by both Canada and South Africa to reconcile the damage left by colonial expansion, in part, looking back with a critical eye, but also pointing the way towards a solution that will satisfy the common need for human dignity

Author : Ismael Fofana,Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu,Ramos E. Mabugu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1175580236

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South Africa Milestones to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals on Poverty and Hunger by Ismael Fofana,Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu,Ramos E. Mabugu Pdf

Author : Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Children's rights
ISBN : 1868087018

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Child Poverty and Children's Rights of Access to Food and Basic Nutrition in South Africa by Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa Pdf

Author : Lawrence James Haddad
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780896293359

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Achieving Food Security in Southern Africa by Lawrence James Haddad Pdf

Author : Dodson, Belinda,Chiweza, Asiyati
Publisher : Southern African Migration Programme
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781920597023

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Gender and Food Insecurity in Southern African Cities by Dodson, Belinda,Chiweza, Asiyati Pdf

This gender analysis of the findings of AFSUN’s baseline survey of poor urban households in eleven cities in Southern Africa in 2008 and 2009 has implications for urban, national and regional policy interventions aimed at reducing urban food insecurity. By comparing female-centred and other households, light is shed both on the determinants of urban food insecurity – which relate fundamentally to income, employment and education – and on the manifest gender inequalities in access to the largely income-based entitlements to food in the city. These insights can be used to design and implement practical and strategic interventions that could simultaneously and synergistically address both gender inequality and food insecurity. Practically, and in the immediate term, interventions such as social grants and food aid, if targeted at the poorest households, will automatically capture a greater proportion of female-centred households. Enhancing food security for the urban poor requires education and training, job creation, and income generation strategies, ensuring equitable access to such opportunities for women and girls. Supporting and enabling women’s engagement in such activities and enterprises – including in food production and marketing – has the potential to strengthen food security at the same time as reducing gender inequality, in a form of virtuous cycle.

Author : Francis Wilson,Mamphela Ramphele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Poor
ISBN : UOM:39015017735195

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Uprooting Poverty in South Africa by Francis Wilson,Mamphela Ramphele Pdf

Author : A. Conroy,M. Blackie,A. Whiteside,J. Malewezi,J. Sachs
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230627703

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Poverty, AIDS and Hunger by A. Conroy,M. Blackie,A. Whiteside,J. Malewezi,J. Sachs Pdf

Using the experiences of Malawi, one of the poorest countries on the African continent, to illustrate both the challenges that poverty creates, and the opportunities for change that exist. Poverty, AIDS and Hunger outlines an easily-replicable model, at modest cost, that could lift people quickly out of poverty, with sustainable benefits.

Author : Matsime Simon Mohapi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781465302830

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Poverty in the Land of Riches - South Africa by Matsime Simon Mohapi Pdf

Before 1994 South Africa practiced a vicious system of oppression. the divisions were clear and vivid. the enemy of the people was well defined and clear. Now let us look back at the history of our people from 1994. We are today in the democratic reign of the fourth democratic president of RSA. But still the great majority of our people has hardship and continues to suffer in agony. There is no apartheid and so who should we blame? People are unhappy and angry. This in our time is danger. People blame and hate each other as they compete for scarce government resources. People blame foreigners as the cause of their current state of suffering. People are misled to blame and attack our Councillors and other government officials. They are confused by the results and causes and by the causes and results. the time is now for you and me to make an attempt in defining the enemy of the people. Matsime Simon Mohapi, from: "Poverty in the Land of Riches - South Africa".

Author : Tim Gore,Liz McDaid
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781780773353

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You Can't Eat Electricity' by Tim Gore,Liz McDaid Pdf

Author : Ahmed, Akhter U.,Hill, Ruth Vargas,Smith, Lisa C.,Wiesmann, Doris M.,Frankenberger, Tim,Gulati, Kajal,Quabili, Wahidand,Yohannes, Yisehac
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896297708

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The world's most deprived: Characteristics and causes of extreme poverty and hunger by Ahmed, Akhter U.,Hill, Ruth Vargas,Smith, Lisa C.,Wiesmann, Doris M.,Frankenberger, Tim,Gulati, Kajal,Quabili, Wahidand,Yohannes, Yisehac Pdf

Author : Martin Caraher,John Coveney
Publisher : Springer
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319238593

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Food Poverty and Insecurity: International Food Inequalities by Martin Caraher,John Coveney Pdf

​This volume is concerned with food poverty and action on food (in)security. The context is a global one; as the developed world faces a problem with overconsumption and chronic diseases, the developing world is addressing the double burden of hunger and over consumption. Even in the developed world, nation states are facing the rise of modern malnutrition which is over consumption, but also the re-emergence of hunger as there are growing levels of poverty and inequality due to the financial crises. Food insecurity is in many people’s minds associated with hunger, and while this is true the modern food system has introduced new complexities to food insecurity with the growth of micro-nutrient inequalities. Hunger and obesity are not being faced by two different groups but often the same group or cohort. These are features of modern malnutrition that are often not recognized. A critical examination of food poverty and food security is undertaken, with a view to clarifying taken-for-granted assumptions in present discourses. The book addresses food charity and the rise of solutions such as foodbanks as appropriate social responses. The final chapters explore the solutions from real life situations. The concluding chapter from the editors draws together the issues and locates solutions within a food policy framework of the total food system. The various definitions of food insecurity will are examined. Hunger and its modern manifestations (hunger and obesity) is another focus, with particular explorations of developed and developing countries experiences. Some of the chapters cover how food poverty/insecurity is being addressed and provide examples of work in progress.

Author : Scott Drimie,Simphiwe Mini
Publisher : HSRC Press
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Food supply
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113628395

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Food Security and Sustainable Development in Southern Africa by Scott Drimie,Simphiwe Mini Pdf

Southern Africa experienced acute food shortages during 2002 and 2003.