Households and food security: lessons from food secure households in East Africa

What are the key factors that contribute to household-level food security? What lessons can we learn from food secure households? What agricultural options and management strategies are likely to benefit female-headed households in particular? This paper addresses these questions using a unique dataset of 600 households that allows us to explore a wide range of indicators capturing different aspects of performance and well-being for different types of households—female-headed, male-headed, food secure, food insecure—and assess livelihoods options and strategies and how they influence food security. The analysis is based on a detailed farm household survey carried out in three sites in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

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Main Authors:	Silvestri, Silvia, Douxchamps, Sabine, Kristjanson, Patricia M., Förch, Wiebke, Radeny, Maren A.O., Mutie, Ianetta, Quirós, Carlos, Herrero, Mario T., Ndungu, Anthony, Ndiwa, Nicholas N., Mango, Joash, Claessens, Lieven, Rufino, Mariana C.
Format:	Journal Article biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	Springer 2015-12
Subjects:	agriculture, household food security, farmers, gender, climate change, food security,
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/10568/69239 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40066-015-0042-4
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