Moving from vulnerability to resilience in Africa
Title Moving from vulnerability to resilience in Africa
Contributor ILEIA
Author Peter Gubbels
Content In August 2012, the Seidu family had to cope with the bad harvest. Like many farming families in northern Ghana, they had to adopt the ‘one-zero-one’ strategy for the children and the ‘zero-zero-one’ strategy for themselves. ‘One’ represents a meal, ‘zero’ is no meal. So during the lean season, their four children had breakfast in the morning, nothing at midday, and a meal in the evening.
Type of initiative Article
Year Published
Language English
Africa GHANA
Link https://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/magazines/global/resilience-faces/theme-overview-building-resilience