Browsing by Subject "Hunger"

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    • Cape Town's African poor 

      de Swardt, Cobus (Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), 2004)
      The typical ‘face of poverty’ in South Africa is no longer that of a rural woman engaged in subsistence agricultural production. Poverty today also refers to the large number of unemployed men who wait daily in vain on ...

    • COVID-19 food security 

      May, Julian (José Frantz, 2021)
      It’s not as if South Africa started 2020 on the right foot. The latest available numbers suggest that about 11% of the country’s population (or around 6.5-million people) suffer from hunger every year. We should not ...

    • Lockdown-associated hunger may be affecting breastfeeding: Findings from a large sms survey in South Africa 

      Sayed, Nazeeia; Burger, Ronelle; Harper, Abigail (MDPI, 2022)
      The impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had, and will continue to have, on food security and child health is especially concerning. A rapid, Short Message Service (SMS) Maternal and Child Health survey was conducted ...