The Role of Social Capital in Rural Household Food Security: The Case Study of Dowa and Lilongwe Districts in Central Malawi

Dzanja, Joseph; Christie, Michael; Fazey, Ioan; Hyde, Tony

doi:10.5539/jas.v7n12p165

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“…Older household heads have more experience that can be used for both increase in income and efficient spending of income and both can lead to food security. Dzanja et al (2015) also reported that, in Malawi, household head's age and food security status of household were significantly associated with each other at p<0.05. Number of earning members in a household was found positively significant for food security of households from Central Punjab.…”

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Regional Distribution of Food Security and Its Determinants Across Regions of the Punjab, Pakistan

Yousaf¹,

Zafar²,

Zafar³

et al. 2018

PAKJAS

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This study was designed to investigate the differences in food security status and its determinants in the regions of the Punjab province (i.e. North, Central and South) of Pakistan. Primary data was collected from 576 rural households situated in six districts (two districts from each region) of the Punjab. Dietary intake assessment (DIA) method was used to examine food security status of the sample households. Results of the study show that food insecurity was highest in South Punjab where 53.6% of the households were found to be food insecure. While, 43.8% and 30.2% of the households were found food insecure in Central and North Punjab respectively. Results of logistic regression model revealed that determinants of food security vary significantly across regions but income of the households was found positively associated with food security status across all the regions while family structure was found negatively associated with food security status. Livestock asset, ownership of agricultural land and family size were found to be significant determinants of food security for Central and South Punjab.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 90%

Regional Distribution of Food Security and Its Determinants Across Regions of the Punjab, Pakistan

Yousaf¹,

Zafar²,

Zafar³

et al. 2018

PAKJAS

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“…equal opportunities of access), effective participation, and a sense of recognition (including respecting and tolerating differences) [23]. Social cohesion is important because it can give rise to adaptive capacity and agency [19,24], such as enabling families to overcome periods of food shortage or illness [25]. While it is the combinations of assets that ultimately give rise to overall resilience [14], it is not always apparent which combinations will be most important.…”

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Community resilience for a 1.5 °C world

Fazey

Carmen

Chapin

et al. 2018

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

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Ten essentials are presented for community resilience initiatives in the context of achieving a 1.5 o C world: Enhance adaptability; take account of shocks and stresses; work horizontally across issues; work vertically across social scales; aggressively reduce carbon emissions; build narratives about climate change; engage directly with futures; focus on climate disadvantage; focus on processes and pathways; and encourage transformations for resilience. Together the essentials highlight that resilience initiatives seeking to retain the status quo will be detrimental when they enable societies to cling to unsustainable activities. Instead, climate resilience initiatives need to be viewed more as a process of transformative social change, where learning, power, inequities and relationships matter. Finally, there is an urgent need for researchers to shift focus away from examining the nature of resilience to accelerating learning about fostering resilience in practice.

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“…at the individual and household levels [56]. Similarly, evidence sought that social capital has a positive impact on achieving food security [57]. It is hypothesized that social capital has a positive association to household food security.…”

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Assessment of Household Food Security in the Face of Climate Change and Variability in the Upper Blue-Nile of Ethiopia

Amare¹,

Simane²

2017

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It is widely recognized that climate variability and frequent droughts resulting from El-Nino phenomenon are among the major risk factors affecting agricultural production that might contribute to hunger and food insecurity in East Africa in general and Ethiopia in particular. The objectives of the present study were to examine the food security status and determinants of household food security among 442 randomly selected households in the Muger sub-basin of the Blue-Nile basin using household survey, focus group discussion (FGD) and key informant interview data collection methods. Both descriptive statistics (mean, chi-square test and t-test) and binary logit econometric model were used to analyze the data. The results showed that 57.8% of the households are food secure, while the remaining 42.2% of the households are food insecure. The binary logit regression results revealed that adoption of soil conservation, small-scale irrigation and employing different agronomic practices are important factors influencing household food security. Moreover, land holding and livestock ownership positively and significantly affected household's food security. The results further showed that family size and distance to the nearest market are important factors affecting food security in the inverse direction. The results highlighted careful investments on sustainable land management practices and small-scale irrigation that reduced sensitivity and increased the adaptive capacity of smallholder farmers to the adverse effect of climate change and variability. This study further highlighted the significance of livestock ownership and landholding in attaining food security under changing climate. The findings call for action based on advocacy family planning to curb population growth and invest in creating functional value-chain that help farmers' viable market for their produces.

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The Role of Social Capital in Rural Household Food Security: The Case Study of Dowa and Lilongwe Districts in Central Malawi

Cited by 25 publications

References 33 publications

Regional Distribution of Food Security and Its Determinants Across Regions of the Punjab, Pakistan

Regional Distribution of Food Security and Its Determinants Across Regions of the Punjab, Pakistan

Community resilience for a 1.5 °C world

Assessment of Household Food Security in the Face of Climate Change and Variability in the Upper Blue-Nile of Ethiopia

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