Negatu: Innovations in Achieving Sustainable Foo

Workneh Negatu, Herman Musahara, Workneh Negatu, Herman Musahara

Innovations in Achieving Sustainable Food Security in Eastern and Southern Africa addresses roles and issues related to social and institutional innovations and approaches in food security in Southern and Eastern Africa. They include implementation of food security policy, rural livelihood and agricultural innovation, land consolidation for food security, interdisciplinary school-based health for food security, harnessing indigenous and modern knowledge for food security, household food resource handling for food security, institutions for technological innovation, role of land tax in food security, trade protectionism and food security, and gender-power relations in food security.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Acronyms
• About Authors
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER ONE - The Puzzle in Implementation of Uganda’s Food Security Policy
• CHAPTER TWO - Rural Livelihoods and Agricultural Innovation Systems in Malawi
• CHAPTER THREE - Some Indicators of Food Security Challenges in Eastern and Southern Africa: Lessons from the Land Use Consolidation in Rwanda
• CHAPTER FOUR - Development of an Interdisciplinary School-Based Intervention to Address Food and Nutrition-Related Needs in Poor Communities in South Africa
• CHAPTER FIVE - Harnessing Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge to Promote Farmer Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in Food Security in Kakamega County, Kenya
• CHAPTER SIX - Farmers’ Adaptive Capacity on Household Food-Resource Handling Procedures and Food Security in Rural Western Kenya
• CHAPTER SEVEN - Institutions and Technological Innovation in Smallholder Agriculture: Lessons from Bati and Kewot Woredas (Districts) in Northeastern Ethiopia
• CHAPTER EIGHT - Land Tax and Sustainable Use of Land for Food Security in Post-Land Reform Zimbabwe
• CHAPTER NINE - A Holistic Strategy for Improving Gender-Power Relations and Food Security in Tigania, Meru County, Kenya
• CONCLUSION
• Back cover