Food security is a fundamental human necessity. Although our global society has been constantly tackling hunger around the world, there still exists many socially and geographically isolated communities that struggle to achieve food security. A growing body of literature examine…
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In the past decade, food (in)security has been recognized as an important public health and human rights issue in Inuit Nunangat, the Inuit homeland in Arctic Canada. Nunavut in particular has been characterized as the epicenter of a Northern food crisis. While a growing number …
Aquifers are an important water source that continue to sustain populations internationally. These populations are supported by a wide range of water uses for livestock grazing, household use, and commercial demands. In regions that are heavily aquifer-dependent, the aim to both…
Poverty and food insecurity in low-income countries are at the heart of the current agenda of the international community. The first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) aims to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, with a target of halving the incidence of poverty and hunger by 20…
Globalization has added to the growth of labor migration as a source of income for wives and families left behind in developing countries. The impact on wives left behind by working husbands requires further investigation in order to produce the best practices to combat the soci…
This dissertation focuses on investigating the causes of malnutrition in the crisis-affected region of Darfur, Sudan, on exploring the relationship between household headship and food security and on examining the role of care in determining malnutrition in emergencies. For the …
Market integration for agricultural products has been widely explored using different methodological approaches. While a substantial effort has been made towards improving the technical tools, the extent of the understanding of how markets work is still not satisfactory. The cur…
Ethiopia is an old agrarian society endowed with a skilled and hard-working peasantry that carries a rich fund of agricultural knowledge. Yet Ethiopian peasants have been the main victims of the cyclical droughts and famines. Recurring famines helped to bring about the 1974 revo…
Extensive efforts have been made to find operational metrics of food security and its geographical variation in the West African Sahel since the catastrophic famines of the 1970s and 1980s. Food insecurity has been estimated using many different types of data, including satellit…
This dissertation addresses two related but distinct issues of importance. The first part examines the extent to which export-led growth is applicable to poor countries that depend on agricultural commodities for their foreign exchange earnings. The second part explores the impl…
Le jardin de case traditionnel, système agroforestier d'utilisation du sol, a été utilisé pendant des siècles en milieu tropical comme source de produits alimentaires tant dans les zones urbaines que dans les campagnes. En milieu rural, il fait partie du paysage. Il constitue un…
Driven by global population growth and anticipated increases in demand for food as well as a number of other goods and services, the issue of food security has recently (re-)emerged in both policy and academic contexts. Using a modified political economy perspective, this study …
This thesis is concerned with social policy during structural transformation, focusing on the caseof Ethiopia. The thesis takes a realist, case-based approach to the study of social policy, whichrecognises that political actors construct the domain of 'social' policy within legi…
Agriculture is by far the largest water user, both worldwide and in arid regions such as the Abu Dhabi Emirate (ADE). ADE is the largest region in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It is characterised by negligible surface water and groundwater recharge resources with limited rech…
Since the beginning of farming, and even before, humans have been actively modifying our environment in order to harvest biomass. With the ‘Great Acceleration’ of the industrial age, the global system of biomass harvest for food production has become a major driver of Earth syst…
Over the past 40 years issues of environment and hunger have received international focus due to wide scale reports of famine and the resulting death of thousands of Ethiopians. Since the mid 1980's, sustainable agricultural development has been tied to the reversal of environme…
This paper assesses the impact of the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) on the food security outcomes of female-headed households in Ethiopia. Using data from the Ethiopian Rural Household Surveys (EHRS) for 2009, the present study tests whether the PSNP reported worse food…
For the past three decades, African agricultural crop production has been increasing. However, much of exhibited growth has come from additional harvested land rather than the increased yield per hectare. This paper studies crop production of the world, African in general, East …
Climate change affects households, villages, countries, and regions worldwide. The populations and individuals most vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change live in the poorest and least developed regions of the world, engage in climate-dependent livelihoods and have…