Conceptualising COVID-19’s impacts on household food security

Impacts of Covid-19 on the food industry

Covid-19 pandemic has had a variety of effects on a variety of industries, including the food industry, both positive and negative [1-3]. Meanwhile, the food industry is more affected by this disease than other industries due to its wide relationship with the household and the community; because activities such as restaurants, coffee shops, hotels and schools were either closed during this peri...

FOOD SECURITY RESEARCH PROJECT Wildlife Conservation in Zambia: Impacts on Rural Household Welfare

We wish to acknowledge the World Bank and the Zambia Wildlife Authority (ZAWA) for the use of household survey data. Ms. Betty Msimuko from the Zambia Wildlife Authority provided useful information related to community-based natural resource management and facilitated field site visits in game management areas. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Swedish Inter...

Climate impacts on food security and nutrition

Measuring Nutritional Dimensions of Household Food Security

Funding for data collection and analysis of these data has been supported by the 1 International Fund for Agricultural Development (TA Grant No. 301-IFPRI). We gratefully acknowledge this funding, but stress that ideas and opinions presented here are our responsibility and should, in no way, be attributed to IFAD.

Household food security status in South Africa

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 edit...