Food Security Case Study
FOOD SECURITY: 95% of all communities agree that there are challenges about food security due to the loss of land. However, the massive interest of foreign companies representing bio mass group of investors, coming to the provinces with the interest of grabbing bigger portion of land for planting poses serious additional threat for the natives to secure adequate and improved portions of land to grow their food for livelihood and food security. Such intensive agricultural inputs by non-natives or investors promote large scale grabbing farm lands to be utilized by natives or traditional smallholding farmers. Communities in the stud condemned such promoted scheme by government and accusing them of not promoting the use of arable land by indigenous
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Women are seriously being discriminated against land deals and the land tenure system. Over 70% of women participants believed that marginalization by men will continue for a long time. Throughout the focus group discussions men dominated sessions as they do in decision making whether in the home or regarding the current land deal. This fact was clearly indicated during the focus group discussions in each locality in which the women were only passive participants. However, in Rosint, (25% of women participants) were exemplary as they contributed greatly to the discussions highlighting key issues such as loss of livelihoods, increasing cost of food, and the unfair distribution of compensation money by …show more content…
Pay for small food to survive (eating just a meal). Hinge on on others for food (struggle to access one meal per day).
Have high financial capacity to loan others at high interest or warranty. Deficient financial ability and cannot even attempt to loan others. Always obligated to others
Send all their children to school (1-6 at a time with proper care and maintenance Send 1 or 2 children to school Have their children being taken care of by other relatives, friends or no children at school
Have the capability to amuse others or toss luxurious social services Incapable to entertain others or throw out expensive cultural ceremonies Cannot entertain others or throw out expensive cultural ceremonies
Capable to employ a tractor or labour teams for farming. Labor as hired men Incapable to do hired
Women are seriously being discriminated against land deals and the land tenure system. Over 70% of women participants believed that marginalization by men will continue for a long time. Throughout the focus group discussions men dominated sessions as they do in decision making whether in the home or regarding the current land deal. This fact was clearly indicated during the focus group discussions in each locality in which the women were only passive participants. However, in Rosint, (25% of women participants) were exemplary as they contributed greatly to the discussions highlighting key issues such as loss of livelihoods, increasing cost of food, and the unfair distribution of compensation money by …show more content…
Pay for small food to survive (eating just a meal). Hinge on on others for food (struggle to access one meal per day).
Have high financial capacity to loan others at high interest or warranty. Deficient financial ability and cannot even attempt to loan others. Always obligated to others
Send all their children to school (1-6 at a time with proper care and maintenance Send 1 or 2 children to school Have their children being taken care of by other relatives, friends or no children at school
Have the capability to amuse others or toss luxurious social services Incapable to entertain others or throw out expensive cultural ceremonies Cannot entertain others or throw out expensive cultural ceremonies
Capable to employ a tractor or labour teams for farming. Labor as hired men Incapable to do hired