Enhancing Households Food Security Through Construction of Crops Bank For Upendo Group in Ndaleta Village, Kiteto District

Kidenya, Rodrick Richard (2019) Enhancing Households Food Security Through Construction of Crops Bank For Upendo Group in Ndaleta Village, Kiteto District. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

A conceptual framework showing the household and social implications of food insecurity was elicited from a qualitative and quantitative study of 75 households from a heterogeneous low income population of Ndaleta Village; the study was designed to increase understanding of the experience of food insecurity in order to contribute to its prevention. According to the respondents' description, the experience of food insecurity is characterized by two categories of manifestations, i.e., the core characteristics of the phenomenon and a related set of actions and reactions by the household. This second category of manifestations is considered here as a first level of consequences of food insecurity. These consequences at the household level often interact with the larger environment to which the household belongs. On a chronic basis, the resulting interactions have certain implications that are tentatively labeled social implications in this paper. Their examination suggests that important aspects of human development depend on food security. It also raises questions concerning the nature of socially acceptable practices of food acquisition and food management, and how such acceptability can be assessed. Guidelines to that effect are proposed.

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