Addressing food security in Africa via multiple livelihood strategies of women farmers

By Christiana H. Gladwin, A. Thomson, Jennifer S. Peterson, Andrea S. Anderson. 2001

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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The role of warehouse receipt systems in enhanced commodity marketing and rural livelihoods in Africa (2002, background): “Food insecurity has often been attributed to inadequate food production and high food prices, but is increasingly being acknowledged as being a problem of low and unstable household income (Gladwin et al., 2001).”
Non-farm work and food security among farm households in Northern Ghana (2011, background): “…results in increased household income and improved food security status confirms the relevance of female’s contribution in ensuring stable household f od supplies in the income diversification process of rural households in sub-Saharan Africa (Canagarajah et al., 2001; Gladwin et al., 2001).”
Determinants of Food Security among Rural Households of Central Ethiopia: An Empirical Analysis (2010, background): “Women farmers may need a long adjustment period to diversify their income sources (GLADWIN et al., 2001).”
Soils and food sufficiency. A review (2011, background): “…public policy (Rukuni, 2002), structural adjustment programs (Amalu, 2002), multiple livelihood strategies of women farmers using micro-enterprises (Gladwin et al., 2001), political economy of urban population (Sutherland et al., 1999), incomegenerating employment (Duncan, 1998; McCalla, 1999)…”
Climate change, food security, and livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa (2016, background): “Food security, through its three pillars, is a livelihood outcome, as it has been conceptualized in the field of sustainable livelihoods (Sutherland et al. 1999; Gladwin et al. 2001).”
Agriculture and food security in selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: diversity in trends and opportunities (2011, background): “However, in most countries, cash crops do play a role in generating earnings that are used for food purchases, although this may sometimes be affected by the gender labour division, whereby men cater for cash crops and women for food crops (Gladwin et al. 2001).”
Food and Globalization (2006, background): “Women often experience food security issues more severely, as their subsistence base is eroded (Gladwin et al. 2001, Nash 1994, Weismantel 1999) and as men migrate in search of more stable employment (Messer & Shipton 2002).”