Poverty and Gender Oriented Vulnerabilities to Food and Water Scarcity in Touroua, Cameroon

Bibliographic Data

ID5221127
AuthorsEpule Terence Epule (Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) , Case postale 8888, succ Centre-Ville, Montréal (QC), H3C 3P8, Canada), Changhui Peng (0000-0003-2037-8097, Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) , Case postale 8888, succ Centre-Ville, Montréal (QC), H3C 3P8, Canada), Laurent Lepage (Institute of Environmental Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) , Case postale 8888, succ Centre-Ville, Montréal (QC), H3C 3P8, Canada), Zhi Chen (0000-0002-2639-1375, Concordia University), Dongzhi Chen (0000-0002-5938-8260, Concordia University)
Year2012
Volume38
Issue2
Pages81-90
Publication date2012-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Human Ecology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0970-9274 • E-ISSN: 2456-6608
PublisherKamla Raj Enterprises (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1080/09709274.2012.11906477
OpenAlexW2770816178
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited11

This paper analyses the vulnerability of different income groups and gender to food and water shortages caused by deforestation and based on population perceptions. Data was obtained through the random administration of 200 questionnaires in the study site. Data was analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 19 in which Pearson correlation was used. The results show that there is an inverse relationship between income levels and the number of respondents with perceptions of limited access to food and water. This implies that, when incomes are low, the number of respondents with perceptions of limited access to food and water is high and vice versa. As concerns gender, we observe from the data plottings that women are more vulnerable to water and food shortages

Agriculture · Economic growth · Economic shortage · Economics · Food security · Food shortage · Geography · Perception · Population · Poverty · Scarcity · Social vulnerability · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Water scarcity · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Energy and Environment Impacts · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology

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