Strategy | Practice |
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Change diet | Reduce diet from good-quality and diverse to poor-quality monotonous diet |
Substitute expensive foods like meat with cheap foods which are less nutritious, e.g. meat for cabbage, cook beans less often due to electricity costs, take black tea if they do not have milk | |
Reduce or re-allocate food intake | Reduce the number of meals and portions |
Give food to young children first when serving food | |
Mothers sacrifice their meals for young children | |
Mothers are the last ones to eat always | |
Source additional food | Families send younger children to pre/school so that they benefit from school food programmes. Participants perceived that children eat too much when they are at home |
Family members go for “food for work” programmes where they would receive food parcels twice a week after working half day in the fields at some institutions | |
Households receive food parcels every month from the government | |
Boost income to buy food | Households receive social or Child Support Grants every month from the government and use the money to buy food |
Households convert their farms into timber plantations and earn income from selling timber and use the money to buy food, e.g. in Richards Bay | |
Families are involved in community projects like community gardens where they get food and sell any surplus to get income which they use to buy what they need, e.g. in Dundee and Richards Bay |