Exploring realities of food security: Oral accounts of migrant workers in urban India:
TL;DR: In this paper, oral accounts of 30 migrants from eastern India to the capital city of Gujarat, India, provide two important insights regarding food security related issues, in terms of the lived realities of these migrants, traditional approaches of food security are inadequate to address their concerns as they exacerbate their food related vulnerabilities.
Abstract: Traditional approaches of food security largely draw from neoliberal prescriptions, which focus on supply side issues of improving productivity and efficiency through market mechanisms. Reflections on the oral accounts of 30 migrants from eastern India to the capital city of Gujarat, India, provide two important insights regarding food security related issues. First, in terms of the lived realities of these migrants, traditional approaches of food security are inadequate to address their concerns as they exacerbate their food related vulnerabilities. Second, economic democracy and food sovereignty approaches are more helpful in addressing food related vulnerabilities as these approaches engage more comprehensively with the multidimensional socioeconomic vulnerabilities of the migrants from the perspective of equity and justice.
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TL;DR: This book discusses security and Vulnerability in Livelihood Systems, as well as tracking and Tackling Food Vulnerability, in the Sahel region.
Abstract: List of Diagrams - List of Graphs - List of Maps - List of Tables - List of Abbreviations - Glossary of Foreign Terms - Introduction - Security and Vulnerability in Livelihood Systems - Coping and Adapting - Monitoring How People Feed Themselves - Drought, Food Insecurity and Early Warning in Mali - Livelihood Safety Nets: the Inner Niger Delta in the Sahel - Livelihood Systems - Production Entitlements - Exchange Entitlements - Coping and Adaptive Entitlements - Tracking and Tackling Food Vulnerability - References - Index
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TL;DR: There is an increasing need to study urban food security in the global South as discussed by the authors, because of the monetization of food in urban areas and compounding vulnerability from other deprivations such a...
Abstract: There is an increasing need to study urban food security in the global South. This is because of the monetization of food in urban areas and compounding vulnerability from other deprivations such a...
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...See reference 29, rai and Selvaraj (2015); also Borhade, anjali (2011), “Migrants’ (denied) access to health care in India”, in r Srivastava (editor), Internal Migrants and Social Protection in India: The Missing Link, Vol 2, Indian Council of Social Science (IIHS)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of a household survey of migrants in the South African cities of Cape Town and Johannesburg and conclude that although migration may improve the food security of the multi-spatial household as a whole, it is also a factor in explaining the high levels of insecurity of migrants.
Abstract: The drivers of food insecurity in rapidly-growing urban areas of the Global South are receiving more research and policy attention, but the precise connections between urbanization and urban food security are still largely unexplored. In particular, the levels and causes of food insecurity amongst new migrants to the city have received little consideration. This is in marked contrast to the literature on the food security experience of new immigrants from the South in European and North American cities. This article aims to contribute to the new literature on South-South migration and urban food security by focusing on the case of recent Zimbabwean migrants to South African cities. The article presents the results of a household survey of migrants in the South African cities of Cape Town and Johannesburg. The survey showed extremely high levels of food insecurity and low dietary diversity. We attribute these findings, in part, to the difficulties of accessing regular incomes and the other demands on household income. However, most migrants are also members of multi-spatial households and have obligations to support household members in Zimbabwe. We conclude, therefore, that although migration may improve the food security of the multi-spatial household as a whole, it is also a factor in explaining the high levels of insecurity of migrants in the city.
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...In particular, the levels and causes of food insecurity amongst new arrivals in the city have received very little consideration – and the isolated studies that do exist focus more on internal than international migration (Pendleton et al., 2014; Rai and Selvaraj, 2015)....
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28 Jul 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a report entitled "The State of South Africa: 2016: A Review of Development Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa."
Abstract: MA RESEARCH REPORT
Prepared for the Department of Development Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
June 2016
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...In addition, these approaches do not concentrate on policies that might expand economic democracy and transform unequal social relations (Rai and Selvaraj, 2015:149)....
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...This new dimension of food security in its household guise is the dominant framework used today by international institutions, national governments and most NGO’s (Fairbairn, 2011:29-30), yet it is merely contributing to greater strains on the poor (Rai and Selvaraj, 2015:151)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the discovery of grounded theory is discussed and grounded theory can be found in the form of a grounded theory discovery problem, where the root cause of the problem is identified.
Abstract: The discovery of grounded theory , The discovery of grounded theory , کتابخانه مرکزی دانشگاه علوم پزشکی تهران
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...We adopted an iterative approach, moving back and forth between data collection, analysis and reading existing literature (Glaser and Strauss, 1967)....
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...We chose ‘long table approach’ to analyse the transcribed transcripts (Krueger and Casey, 2000: 132)....
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...During the process of analysis, we gave special attention to certain factors including specificity, emotions and extensiveness of comments and themes (Krueger and Casey, 2000)....
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TL;DR: The promise of global institutions broken promises freedom to choose, the East Asia crisis - how IMF policies brought the world to the verge of a global meltdown who lost Russia? unfair trade laws and other better roads to the market the IMF's other agenda the way ahead.
Abstract: The promise of global institutions broken promises freedom to choose? the East Asia crisis - how IMF policies brought the world to the verge of a global meltdown who lost Russia? unfair trade laws and other mischief better roads to the market the IMF's other agenda the way ahead.
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TL;DR: Focus Group Dynamics and Focus Group Research Recruiting Focus Group Participants and Designing the Interview Guide The Focus Group Moderator Conducting the Focus Group Analyzing Focus Group Data Focus group Research in Action Conclusion
Abstract: Introduction Group Dynamics and Focus Group Research Recruiting Focus Group Participants and Designing the Interview Guide The Focus Group Moderator Conducting the Focus Group Analyzing Focus Group Data Focus Group Research in Action Conclusion
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TL;DR: The authors argue that capabilities can help us to construct a normative conception of social justice, with critical potential for gender issues, only if we specify a definite set of capabilities as the most important ones to protect.
Abstract: Amartya Sen has made a major contribution to the theory of social justice, and of gender justice, by arguing that capabilities are the relevant space of comparison when justice-related issues are considered. This article supports Sen's idea, arguing that capabilities supply guidance superior to that of utility and resources (the view's familiar opponents), but also to that of the social contract tradition, and at least some accounts of human rights. But I argue that capabilities can help us to construct a normative conception of social justice, with critical potential for gender issues, only if we specify a definite set of capabilities as the most important ones to protect. Sen's "perspective of freedom" is too vague. Some freedoms limit others; some freedoms are important, some trivial, some good, and some positively bad. Before the approach can offer a valuable normative gender perspective, we must make commitments about substance.
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...In contrast, the food sovereignty approach holds access to food as a basic human right, and calls for the elimination of hunger, malnutrition and premature death, in the effort to preserve the dignity of human beings (Nussbaum, 2003)....
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