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Direct linkGloria Essilfie; Joshua Sebu; Josephine Baako-Amponsah – SAGE Open, 2024
The study seeks to analyze the effect of women's empowerment on household food security in northern Ghana. Employing Random Effect and Generalized Estimating Equations on the two rounds of Feed the Future dataset, 2012 and 2015, the study measured women empowerment as the comparative years of schooling and decision making by women. Multivariate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empowerment, Females, Food
Weaver, Lesley Jo; Henderson, Nicole; Hadley, Craig – Field Methods, 2021
Food insecurity (FI) is often assessed through experienced-based measures, which address the number and extent of coping strategies people employ. Coping indices are limited because, methodologically, they presuppose that people engage coping strategies uniformly. Ethnographic work suggests that subgroups experience FI quite differently, meaning…
Descriptors: Food, Dietetics, Hunger, Consumer Economics
Download full textRodriguez, Lizette; Horowitz, Marcel; Espinoza, Dorina; Aguilera, Alberto; de la Torre, Adela – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2015
Introduction: The year 2015 marks the fourth year of a drought in California. With no signs of the drought improving, communities in California are left to prioritize their water usage. In the Central Valley, the limited water supply has forced farmers to prioritize on acreage and planting, decisions that trickle down and may impact farmworker…
Descriptors: Natural Disasters, Agricultural Occupations, Coping, Mexican Americans
The Effect of Food Stamp Nutrition Education on the Food Insecurity of Low-Income Women Participants
Eicher-Miller, Heather A.; Mason, April C.; Abbott, Angela R.; McCabe, George P.; Boushey, Carol J. – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2009
Objective: To determine the effect of Food Stamp Nutrition Education (FSNE) in Indiana on participants' food insecurity and food insufficiency. Design: A single-blind randomized design. A randomized experimental group completed 5 FSNE lessons as an intervention between a pre- and posttest, whereas a control group completed a pre- and posttest…
Descriptors: Welfare Services, Nutrition Instruction, Low Income Groups, Females
Taggart, Nadia; Pillay, Jace – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2011
The purpose of this study was to comprehensively capture teachers' classroom experiences and establish what educational and psychological support would help them as they were trying to include learners from child-headed homes in their classrooms and schools. The sample of teachers from two different Gauteng districts included members from the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Heads of Households, Teacher Student Relationship, School Districts
Fonchingong, Charles C. – International Social Science Journal, 2005
As a response to the trappings of globalisation and the commoditisation of the sphere of production, women continue to play a crucial role in securing livelihoods by guaranteeing access to food in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas. Based on a survey of food vendors, this paper evaluates women's input through informal earnings, the coping…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Vendors, Food
