Adaptation to climate change and climate variability and its implications for household food security in Kenya

Submitted by Jane Nyawira Maina on

Climate change and climate variability affect weather patterns and cause shifts in seasons with serious repercussions such as declining food production and productivity for communities and households in Kenya. To mitigate the negative impacts of climate change and variability, farming households have been encouraged to adopt different strategies such as new crop varieties, crop and livestock diversification, and water-harvesting technologies.

Agriculture, Climate Change

Effect of Policy Interventions on Food Security in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

This study attempts to investigate the effectiveness of government policy interventions at different scales addressed to improve food security. Food security both at the regional and district level was investigated by deriving food balance sheets for the period 2000-2008. An empirical analysis based on a logit model was also employed to analyze household level food security status.

Agriculture

Assessing Gender Inequality in Food Security amongst Small-holder Farm Households in urban and rural South Africa

Submitted by Salvatory Macha on

With the ongoing changes in climate, household food insecurity is likely to be more widespread in most small-holder and subsistence farm households in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the existence and extent of gendered household food security—or lack thereof—remains unclear.

Agriculture, Climate Change, Gender

Gendered food security in rural Malawi: why is women's food security status lower?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Abstract: Gendered food security gaps between female- and male-headed households (FHHs and MHHs) can be decomposed into two sets of components: those explained by observable differences in levels of resource use, and those due to unobserved differences affecting the returns to the resources used. Employing exogenous switching ordered probit and binary probit regression models, this paper examines the gendered food security gap and its causes in rural Malawi.

Health, Gender

What Determines Gender Inequality in Household Food Security in Kenya? Application of Exogenous Switching Treatment Regression

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Abstract: This paper explores the link between the gender of a household head and food security in rural Kenya. The results show that the food security gap between male-headed households (MHHs) and female-headed households (FHHs) is explained by their differences in observable and unobservable characteristics. FHHs’ food security status would have been higher than it is now if the returns (coefficients) on their observed characteristics had been the same as the returns on the MHHs’ characteristics.

Health, Gender

Small-scale Subsistence Farming, Food Security, Climate Change and Adaptation in South Africa: Male-Female Headed Households and Urban-Rural Nexus

Submitted by Felicity Downes on

This study examines the role of gender of the head of household on the
food security of small-scale subsistence farmers in urban and rural areas of
South Africa, using the exogenous switching treatment-effects regression
framework.

Agriculture, Climate Change

Impact of Improved Maize Adoption on Welfare of Farm Households in Malawi: A Panel Data Analysis

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

This paper assesses rural households’ decision to use improved maize varieties in Malawi and examines its impact on household welfare using a three-year household panel data.

Agriculture

Biofuels Can Have a Win-win Outcome that Improves Smallholder Productivity and Increases Household Welfare

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on

Rising prices of fossil fuels, together with apprehension about the environmental harm created by them, have resulted in increasing efforts to search for alternative energy sources such as biofuels. Biofuels production is still a debatable issue regarding the opportunities it creates and the challenges it poses.

Climate Change, Conservation, Energy, Forestry