April 2019

Food insecurity conundrum: A case study of Amathole district in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa

Over half of the population in the Amathole district in South Africa experiences food insecurity, despite on-going government initiatives to combat the problem. The study reported here investigated factors that inhibit the achievement of food security by households in the district and government responses, to better understand the factors that might account for the persistence of this challenge. Using a literature...

Author(s): X. G. Ngumbela, E. N. Khalema and T. I. Nzimakwe