A systematic review of sub-national food insecurity research in South Africa: Missed opportunities for policy insights.

ABSTRACT: Food insecurity is an intractable problem in South Africa. The country has a tradition of evidence-based decision making, grounded in the findings of national surveys. However, the rich insights from sub-national surveys remain a largely untapped resource for understandings of the contextual experience of food insecurity. A web-based search identified 169 sub-national food insecurity studies conducted in the post-apartheid period between 1994 and 2014. The systematic review found that the studies used 27 different measures of food insecurity, confounding the comparative analysis of food insecurity at this level. While social grants have brought a measure of poverty relief at household level, unaffordable diets were the root cause of food insecurity. The increasing consumption of cheaper, m

SUBMITTER: Misselhorn A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5567909 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature