Moving from vulnerability to resilience in Africa
Posted on Jun 5, 2015 in Case Studies and Articles |
| 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 |
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| Language |
English |
| Africa |
GHANA |
| Link |
http://www.agriculturesnetwork.org/magazines/global/resilience-faces/theme-overview-building-resilience |
