SADCC food security strategies: Evolution and role

Hay, Roger; Rukuni, M.

doi:10.1016/0305-750x(88)90105-2

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“…We recognize that there is danger in relying on a single definition as a "definition implies a choice, a particular way of seeing a problem among a range of alternatives (and) policy is determined in part by that choice" [41] (p. xii). Accordingly, some scholars plausibly argue that a single, universal, "catch-all" definition does not adequately address the complexities of food security or food insecurity [5,37,39,42,43] (p. 1023-1024). For this reason, multifaceted definitions are needed to generate broad agreement among policymakers and practitioners with diverse emphases.…”

Section: Varying Definitions Of Food Securitymentioning

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Measuring Food Insecurity: The Problem with Semantics

Sumsion

June

Cope

2023

Foods

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Rising rates of hunger and food insecurity have sparked a major re-evaluation of all aspects of food systems. Because of the multifaceted nature of food insecurity, however, determining what actions should be taken is challenging, especially since reevaluation efforts are led by experts from several disciplines and there is no consensus about which indicators should be used and how they should be measured. Confusion surrounding the meaning of the terms ‘food security’ and ‘food insecurity’ has contributed to this lack of consensus. As indicators inform action, such confusion has slowed those committed to alleviating hunger in identifying the most pressing targets. This review highlights (1) the importance of clearly defining food security and food insecurity and (2) how such definitions affect measures of food insecurity in the United States. While some might say that definitions are an issue of the past or a trivial matter of semantics, we believe that the world’s present rates of hunger and malnutrition are attributable, at least in part, to the lack of consensus on these definitions and their accompanying measurements and indicators. Although the present review can be helpful to academics and policy makers, the primary purpose is to be a resource to those involved in the day-to-day production of food, such as ranchers and farmers by providing an overview of definitions, indicators, and measurements used when discussing food security.

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Section: Varying Definitions Of Food Securitymentioning

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Measuring Food Insecurity: The Problem with Semantics

Sumsion

June

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2023

Foods

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“…By comparison, entitlement theories, with strong grounding in economics, seem better suited to describe modem famines which are intertwined with pressures and dependencies resulting from input and output markets. An increasing awareness of the entitlement theory may signal a shift in thinking from an emphasis on production self-sufficiency to one of food availability and access to food-what Hay describes as "changes in conventional international wisdom" (Hay and Rukuni, 1988). It is important to determine the extent to which supply failure or demand failure predominates.…”

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“…This threat to survival is exacerbated to the extent that rural incomes depend on rain-fed agriculture. In the longer term, population growth levels in excess of agriculture's capacity to provide employment pose a continuing threat (Hay and Rukuni, 1988).…”

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“…Governments that establish institutional structures responsible for food security and that carry out hunger prevention activities during non-crisis periods are better able to cope with food crises in their beginning stages (Hay, 1988). On the other hand chronic underinvestment in agriculture is a measure that will probably aggravate other famine risk factors.…”

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Risk Factors and Predictability of Famine in Ethiopia

Vestal

1991

Politics and the Life Sciences

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Famine, a complex phenomenon with multifactorial causes, produces starvation and associated diseases resulting in unusually high mortality from a lack of food. Devastating famines in sub-Saharan Africa in the 1980s may have provided an impetus for scholars to find additional analytical tools for predicting famines. Two predominant theories of famines causality are (1) food availability decline (FAD), a supply failure; and (2) the entitlement approach based on a demand failure. Findings from both theories are applied to specific examples from Ethiopian famines to analyze the composition and effects of famine. The limited success of contemporary famines studies in anticipating famine suggests the need for improved analytical tools. Risk factor analysis, used successfully in the social sciences and the medical sciences to predict the occurrence of complicated phenomena, is developed to identify controllable, uncontrollable, and contributing factors to famine. Based on the experience of Ethiopia in 1983-86, categorical cutoff values for identifying a high risk of developing famine are formulated.

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“…Several members were given responsibility for the advancement of agriculture: crop research and animal disease (Botswana); soil conservation (Lesotho); food security and land utilization (Zimbabwe) (Tostensen 1982). According to Hay and Rukuni (1988), the food security objectives of the SADCC contain three separate but interconnected concerns, namely, growth and stabilization of food output; market supply and stabilization; and consumption stabilization or household food security. All three currently dominate SADCC policy and are clearly tied directly to the broader objectives of national and regional food selfsufficiency.…”

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Government expenditures on imported inputs and the goals of food self-sufficiency and food security in the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference

Logan

1989

Journal of Agricultural Ethics

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Food security and food self-sufficiency are important regional goals for the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), In the long run, success in these areas would reduce the incidence of drought-related mass starvation and the epidemic of malnutrition and undernutrition that exists among some tribal groups. For food production to improve, the governments must commit themselves to increasing the access of peasant farmers to critical agricultural inputs. If they do not take proper action in this area of development planning, domestic food production is likely to stagnate or decline. This study is a broad examination of the relationship between government expenditures on imported inputs and the performance of the domestic food subsector. Because much data on government spending and agricultural production in Africa are unavailable, and those in published form are of suspect validity, the study is undertaken largely as a conceptual overview. The empirical analyses are conducted, therefore, largely to provide a staging ground for the conceptual arguments.

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SADCC food security strategies: Evolution and role

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Measuring Food Insecurity: The Problem with Semantics

Measuring Food Insecurity: The Problem with Semantics

Risk Factors and Predictability of Famine in Ethiopia

Government expenditures on imported inputs and the goals of food self-sufficiency and food security in the Southern African Development Co-ordination Conference

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