The impact of the homestead food garden programme on food security in South Africa

Bahta, Yonas T.; Owusu‐Sekyere, Enoch; Donkor, Emmanuel; Elizabeth, Tlalang Boipelo

doi:10.1007/s12571-017-0756-1

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“…House gardens or plots require sufficient water, thus household water insecurity may reduce the benefits of agricultural activities on mitigating food insecurity (Tesfamariam, Owusu‐Sekyere, Emmanuel, & Elizabeth, ; Whitney et al, ). For example, based on surveys in 120 households across Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, food insecurity was mostly profound in the zones of <700 mm annual rainfall; the implied mechanism has reduced crop yields and failures (Rufino et al, ).…”

Section: How Might Household Water Insecurity Exacerbate Food Insecurmentioning

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Household water insecurity is strongly associated with food insecurity: Evidence from 27 sites in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Brewis

Workman

Wutich

et al. 2019

American J Hum Biol

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Objectives: Food and water insecurity have both been demonstrated as acute and chronic stressors and undermine human health and development. A basic untested proposition is that they chronically coexist, and that household water insecurity is a fundamental driver of household food insecurity. Methods: We provide a preliminary assessment of their association using crosssectional data from 27 sites with highly diverse forms of water insecurity in 21 lowand middle-income countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas (N = 6691 households). Household food insecurity and its subdomains (food quantity, food quality, and anxiety around food) were estimated using the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale; water insecurity and subdomains (quantity, quality, and opportunity costs) were estimated based on similar self-reported data. Results: In multilevel generalized linear mixed-effect modeling (GLMM), composite water insecurity scores were associated with higher scores for all subdomains of food insecurity. Rural households were better buffered against water insecurity effects on food quantity and urban ones for food quality. Similarly, higher scores for all subdomains of water insecurity were associated with greater household food insecurity. Conclusions: Considering the diversity of sites included in the modeling, the patterning supports a basic theory: household water insecurity chronically coexists with household food insecurity. Water insecurity is a more plausible driver of food insecurity than the converse. These findings directly challenge development practices in which household food security interventions are often enacted discretely from water security ones.

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Section: How Might Household Water Insecurity Exacerbate Food Insecurmentioning

confidence: 89%

Household water insecurity is strongly associated with food insecurity: Evidence from 27 sites in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Brewis

Workman

Wutich

et al. 2019

American J Hum Biol

121

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“…Most adopters belonged to farmers' organizations compared with nonadopters. The difference in the means indicates the significant role of improved rice variety adoption in enabling farmers' social capital (Tesfamariam et al 2018). Also, the adoption of chemical fertilizers was significantly higher for adopters, and they seem to have easy access to market information and more access to agricultural extension services.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…(Asfaw et al 2012;Tesfamariam et al 2018). The full information maximum likelihood approach simultaneously estimates the probit model or selection equation (adoption of improved rice varieties) and the regression equations (outcome of food security) to obtain consistent standard errors.…”

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Do the determinants of food security differ in improved rice variety adoption? Evidence from Sierra Leone

Mansaray

Jin

2020

Open Agriculture

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The Sierra Leonean government has implemented the improved rice varieties directed at enhancing more rice production to reduce food insecurity. This paper evaluates the food security effect of improved rice variety adoption using cross-sectional data collected in 2017 from a randomly selected sample of 624 rice farmers in Sierra Leone. The analysis uses the endogenous switching regression and propensity score matching (PSM) approach. The results revealed that the adoption of improved rice varieties has a significant positive effect on food security. That confirms the crucial role of improved rice variety adoption in increasing food production and food security. Therefore, the study recommended the intensification of policies that promote improved rice variety adoption, if more food production and food security are to be realized. Further, the government should continue the lead in rice variety promotion and dissemination and in enhancing an enabling environment for the effective adoption of farmers. Given the preponderant evidence of the different factors of food security, appropriate policies that seek to promote formal education, more income generation for farmers, and easy and credible access to farmland for landless farmers would enhance food security.

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“…Examples include studies across several sub-Saharan countries. In South Africa, participation in home garden programmes was found to contribute to reductions in food insecurity in rural households by up to 41.5% (Tesfamariam et al 2018 ). In rural Kenya, positive associations were found between the number of livestock kept in home gardens and household food security measured through food stocks and the number of meals consumed daily (Musotsi et al 2008 ).…”

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Homegarden diversity and food security in southern Mexico

Navarrete

2021

Food Sec.

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Home gardens are recognised in the literature for their contribution to food security, yet the process by which agrobiodiversity and household characteristics mediate this relationship is less well understood. This paper contributes to fill this research gap by drawing on a multi-site case study in the Yucatán region in Mexico. By applying regression analysis, the significance of the association between home garden diversity and food security is confirmed. Plant diversity is found to have a positive association with food consumption scores and the frequency of vegetable intakes. The number of animals used for food purposes is also found to have positive and significant associations with food consumption scores and frequency of meat intakes. However, the dimension and the significance of these positive associations were found to vary among communities and quantiles of the distribution of food security measures. In the households studied, younger individuals and better-educated people, males and Spanish speakers were more likely to engage in jobs in urban areas. Engagement in urban jobs was found to involve complementarities with the overall plant diversity of home gardens, but also trade-offs with the diversity of vegetables and other herbs used for food purposes and with the abundance of animals raised for food purposes.

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The impact of the homestead food garden programme on food security in South Africa

Cited by 40 publications

References 28 publications

Household water insecurity is strongly associated with food insecurity: Evidence from 27 sites in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Household water insecurity is strongly associated with food insecurity: Evidence from 27 sites in low‐ and middle‐income countries

Do the determinants of food security differ in improved rice variety adoption? Evidence from Sierra Leone

Homegarden diversity and food security in southern Mexico

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