Browsing Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences by Subject "Food security"
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Food Security of Social Grant Recipients in a Low Income Neighborhood in South Africa
(World Business Institute, 2013)The origins of social security in South Africa can be traced back to attempts by the previous apartheid government to create a welfare state for whites during the apartheid era. Since the first democratic election in South ... -
Promoting food security through indigenous and traditional food crops
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)Despite many factors weighing in South Africa’s favor on the agricultural front, including having official “food secure” status, millions of households have insufficient access to nutritionally safe food. This is largely ... -
Self Reported Vulnerability to Food Insecurity in a South African Low Income Neigbourhood
(World Business Institute, 2013)Food security is defined as a state in which all people in a household at all times have both physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet their dietary needs for a productive and healthy life. Household food ... -
Sustainable agriculture: a review of challenges facing the South African agricultural sector
(Kamla-Raj Enterprises, 2013)This review paper considers the various challenges facing the South African agricultural sector against the background that agricultural sectors globally are pressurised to provide food security for the estimated nine ... -
The Nexus of food and housing insecurity in South Africa: the case of Bophelong and Sharpeville townships
(Social Sciences Research Society, 2017)Considered a human right, housing and food security can be viewed as basic to what defines an individual's well-being and is enshrined in the South African Constitution. In any country, affordable housing and food security ...