Multi‐Local Livelihoods and Food Security in Rural Africa

Djurfeldt, Agnes Andersson

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“…One indicator of a farmer's improved livelihood is being food secure [56][57][58]. Selling excess produce for income contributes to improved livelihoods.…”

Section: The Contribution Of the Reforestation Project To The Livelihmentioning

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“…The first priority of farmers is a secure livelihood, and they participate in interventions that place high importance on their livelihoods. One indicator of a farmer's improved livelihood is being food secure [56][57][58]. Selling excess produce for income contributes to improved livelihoods.…”

Section: The Contribution Of the Reforestation Project To The Livelihmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Application of Landscape Approach Principles Motivates Forest Fringe Farmers to Reforest Ghana’s Degraded Reserves

Acheampong

Sayer

Macgregor

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Forests

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Research Highlights: Landscape approach principles were developed to address competing claims on resources at local scales. We used the principles to address agricultural expansion in Ghana's forest reserves. Background and Objectives: Agricultural expansion is a major cause of Ghana's forest-cover loss. Cultivation has totally deforested some forest reserves. The situation in Ghana illustrates the trade-off between attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). SDG 1-reduction of poverty, and 2-achieving food security, are in conflict with SDG 15-protecting and restoring forests. We examined how farmers in forest fringe communities could be engaged in restoring degraded forests using the landscape approach and whether their livelihoods were improved through the use of this approach. Materials and Methods: The Ongwam II Forest Reserve in the Ashanti region of Ghana is encroached by farmers from two communities adjacent to the reserve. We employed the 10 principles of the landscape approach to engage farmers in restoring the degraded reserve. The flexibility of the landscape approach provided a framework against which to assess farmer behaviour. We encouraged farmers to plant trees on 10 ha of the degraded reserve and to benefit through the cultivation of food crops amongst the trees. Results: Access to fertile forest soils for cultivation was the main motivation for the farmers to participate in the reforestation project. The farmers' access to natural and financial capital increased and they became food secure in the first year of the project's operation. Conclusions: Effective implementation of several small-scale reforestation projects using the landscape approach could together lead to a forest transition, more trees in agricultural systems and better protection of residual natural forests while improving farmers' livelihoods, all combining to achieve the SDGs.

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“…One indicator of a farmer's improved livelihood is being food secure [56][57][58]. Selling excess produce for income contributes to improved livelihoods.…”

Section: The Contribution Of the Reforestation Project To The Livelihmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Contribution Of the Reforestation Project To The Livelihmentioning

confidence: 99%

Application of Landscape Approach Principles Motivates Forest Fringe Farmers to Reforest Ghana’s Degraded Reserves

Acheampong

Sayer

Macgregor

et al. 2020

Forests

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“…Many international and internal migrants in African cities are members of what have been variously described as multi‐spatial, multi‐locational or spatially‐stretched households which span rural‐urban areas and international boundaries (Andersson Djurfeldt, ; Dick and Schmidt‐Kallert, ; Foeken and Owuor, ). Because they often migrate as a livelihood strategy for the household as a whole, they have ongoing responsibilities and commitments to household members at home.…”

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“…Such obligations lead to regular transfers of money, goods, foodstuffs and consumer goods to household members in the country and community of origin (Tacoli, ). Viewing migrants as members of multi‐locational or stretched households makes it important to delineate patterns of food consumption and food security that “stretch across space” (Andersson Djurfeldt, ). Much of the existing literature on rural‐urban intra‐household linkages focuses on transfers of food from rural to urban areas and their role in ameliorating food insecurity amongst urban‐based members of the household (Frayne, ).…”

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South‐South Migration and Urban Food Security: Zimbabwean Migrants in South African Cities

Crush

Tawodzera

2017

International Migration

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The drivers of food insecurity in rapidly-growing urban areas of the Global South are receiving more research and policy attention, but the precise connections between urbanization and urban food security are still largely unexplored. In particular, the levels and causes of food insecurity amongst new migrants to the city have received little consideration. This is in marked contrast to the literature on the food security experience of new immigrants from the South in European and North American cities. This article aims to contribute to the new literature on South-South migration and urban food security by focusing on the case of recent Zimbabwean migrants to South African cities. The article presents the results of a household survey of migrants in the South African cities of Cape Town and Johannesburg. The survey showed extremely high levels of food insecurity and low dietary diversity. We attribute these findings, in part, to the difficulties of accessing regular incomes and the other demands on household income. However, most migrants are also members of multi-spatial households and have obligations to support household members in Zimbabwe. We conclude, therefore, that although migration may improve the food security of the multi-spatial household as a whole, it is also a factor in explaining the high levels of insecurity of migrants in the city.

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“…We sent new stuff, used stuff, perishable items.” As Bailey's () work on the “migrant suitcase” confirms, food remittances are often bi‐directional, far more so than cash remittances. In trying to account for the general lack of attention to food remitting, Andersson Djurfeldt (: 540) observes that in Africa, “transfers of food are invisible in the sense that they run within the family and outside market channels.” Another explanation, following Petrou and Connell (: 219), is that transfers of food “make little formal economic sense” without the non‐economic context of social relationships of kinship and reciprocity.…”

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