Small-scale Subsistence Farming, Food Security, Climate Change and Adaptation in South Africa: Male-Female Headed Households and Urban-Rural Nexus

Byela Tibesigwa and Martine Visser

No 527, Working Papers from Economic Research Southern Africa

Abstract: This study examines the role of gender of the head of household on the food security of small-scale subsistence farmers in urban and rural areas of South Africa, using the exogenous switching treatment-effects regression framework. Our results show that agriculture contributes to food security of female-headed more than male-headed households, especially in rural areas. We […]

Keywords: Discrimination; food security; rural development; Urbanization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q18 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-06-01
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