- Title
- Children navigating rural poverty: Rural children's use of wild resources to counteract food insecurity in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Creator
- McGarry, Dylan K, Shackleton, Charlie M
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2009
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181191
- Identifier
- vital:43706
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10796120802677594"
- Description
- This paper analyzes the role of natural resources in the lives of rural children experiencing heightened vulnerability to poverty and the impact of HIV/AIDS, a subject that previously has been unexplored. The authors highlight wild-food use by rural children as a regular activity that supplements their domestic diets. Over the course of 18 months in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, the authors used a broad quantitative and qualitative methodology to explore the food acquisition and consumption patterns for 850 children. They found that the quality of children's domestic diets was, on average, 60% lower than the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) guidelines. This occurred in a population where 62% of the children surveyed were supplementing their diets with wild foods; and 30% with over half their diet supplemented in this way. Significantly, dietary diversity increased by 13% when wild food supplementation occurred. Another result was the commercialization of wild foods (observed among 47% of the children), wherein significantly more vulnerable children sold these foods. Considering the heightened nutritional and energy needs of children, combined with the impact of poverty and HIV/AIDS on household food access, wild foods represent the last freely attainable food sources available to them.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (20 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Taylor and Francis Online
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Journal of Children and Poverty, Journal of Children and Poverty volume 15 number 1 p. 19 2009 1469-9389
- Rights
- Publisher
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- Rights
- Open Access
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RU Department of Environmental Science
Shackleton, Charles Michael (Distinguished Prof)
SDG 02. Zero Hunger
SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
McGarry, Dylan (Dr)
SDG 01. No Poverty
SDG 15. Life On Land
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