Abstract Food security remains a major sustainability challenge in many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. has numerous determinants that are complex and interlinked, with one them being social capital. Social capital reflects an individual’s, household’s, or community’s networks, interactions, support systems can be mobilized times need to maintain, among others, livelihoods food security. This stud...

Assessment of income shock and households’ vulnerability provides an excellent way of designing appropriate marginal reforms to tackle welfare problems among some vulnerable groups. This study used the three stage Feasible Generalized Least Square (FGLS) to analyze expected poverty in Nigeria, using the 2004 NLSS data. It was found that high agricultural input price and lack of capital to expan...

We explore how diet diversity differs with agricultural seasons and between households within pastoral and agro-pastoral livelihood systems, using variety of foods consumed as a less complex proxy indicator of food insecurity than benchmark indicators like anthropometry and serum nutrients. The study was in the central part of the rangelands in Uganda. Seventy nine households were monitored for...

Good nutrition is a prerequisite for a healthy and active life, especially for agriculture-dependent households. However, diets in most households in Tanzania lack diversity because the intake of meat, poultry, fish, and vegetables and fruits is low. This study estimates factors influencing dietary diversity of the household, children under five years, and women using primary survey data. It qu...

female-headed households and the women in charge of them are one of the most vulnerable chunks of a society, often highly affected by divorces, passing or disability of their husband, drug-abuse of their partner, or immigration of their husbands. that is why this study is focused on bottlenecks of parenting and children socialization for female-headed households, which is divided into five subc...

Nearly 6 million children in the United States today live in households headed by a relative other than their parents. Most of these families are in informal arrangements that do not involve the child welfare system. Child welfare agencies in many states, however, are increasingly relying on relatives, primarily grandparents, to provide both temporary and permanent placements for children who c...

Using a 5-year household panel data from Korea, this paper identifies the vulnerable households and their coping strategies during 1994-1998. We find that (i) larger households tend to be more protected from shortfalls in consumption; (ii) households with young children tend to decrease consumption of other items to achieve higher spending on children’s education; (iii) female-headed households...

Between 1968 and 2013, two striking changes occurred in the characteristics of US parents. First, the share of households headed by a single parent grew from 19% to 40%. Second, the share of households in which at least one parent has a fouryear college degree grew from 17% to 45%, with most of the increase coming from dual parent households. We first conduct simple accounting exercises to show...