A Comparative Assessment of The Poverty and Food Insecurity Experience Between Food Entrepreneurs and Smallholder Farmers in Rural Zambia

• Autorzy: Collins Mudenda , Isaac N. Simate , Mwape Chileshe
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The study was carried out to ascertain the poverty and food insecurity experience between food entrepreneurs and smallholder farmers in selected rural communities in Zambia. The study followed a mixed research design in which qualitative and quantitative data were collected through the use of a structured questionnaire. The Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) was adopted in the design of the data collection questionnaire. Data were collected from 112 smallholder farmers in Chipapa, Shalubala, and Musomali villages and from 120 food entrepreneurs from Chisamba and Chibombo. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics through the use of means and frequencies, Levene's test, independent samples t-test, factor analysis, as well as arithmetic calculations. The results revealed that both the food entrepreneurs and small-holder farmers live in extreme poverty - US $0.74 per person per day at most. In addition, food access, availability, stability, and utilisation were the main challenges constraining the food intake for both smallholder farmers and food entrepreneurs. Therefore, both smallholder farmers and food entrepreneurs experience food stress equivalent to Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) 2.(original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Food security; Poverty; Agriculture; Entrepreneur

PL

Bezpieczeństwo żywnościowe; Ubóstwo; Rolnictwo; Przedsiębiorca

• Czasopismo: Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development
• Rocznik: 2023
• Numer: z. 3 (69)
• Strony: 279--297

Twórcy

autor

Collins Mudenda

• University of Zambia, Zambia

autor

Isaac N. Simate

• University of Zambia, Zambia

autor

Mwape Chileshe

• University of Zambia, Zambia

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DOI

10.17306/J.JARD.2023.01730