Browsing Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences by Subject "Food insecurity"
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Determinants of the food security status of households receiving government grants in Kwakwatsi, South Africa
(Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research (MCSER), 2013)This study attempts to estimate the food security status and identify the determinants of food security among households receiving government grants in a township of Kwakwatsi, South Africa. The results are based on a ... -
Determinants of vulnerability to food insecurity in a South African township: a gender analysis
(Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research (MCSER), 2013)The results of a study reported in this article comparatively analyse the gender determinants of vulnerability to food insecurity in a South African township of Kwakwatsi, South Africa. The results are based on a household ... -
Food Security of Social Grant Recipients in a Low Income Neighborhood in South Africa
(World Business Institute, 2013)The origins of social security in South Africa can be traced back to attempts by the previous apartheid government to create a welfare state for whites during the apartheid era. Since the first democratic election in South ... -
Self Reported Vulnerability to Food Insecurity in a South African Low Income Neigbourhood
(World Business Institute, 2013)Food security is defined as a state in which all people in a household at all times have both physical and economic access to sufficient food to meet their dietary needs for a productive and healthy life. Household food ... -
The relationship between perceptions of the causes of poverty and household characteristics
(The Social Sciences Research Society, 2016)As pioneered by Feagin (1972), the literature on the theories of poverty focuses on individualistic, structural and fatalistic causes of poverty. The individualistic perception blames individuals themselves for their poverty ...