Promoting Work and Self-Sufficiency for Housing Voucher Recipients: Early Findings From the Family Self-Sufficiency Program Evaluation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nandita Verma ◽  
Freedman Stephen ◽  
Betsy L. Tessler ◽  
Stephen Nunez ◽  
Barbara Fink
Keyword(s):  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Family ◽  
Housing Voucher

Revitalising the self-sufficient household economy: the Social Land Programme in Hungary

2019 ◽  
pp. 165-178
Author(s):  
Judit Csoba ◽  
Flórián Sipos
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Social And Physical Environment

The authors introduce the Social Land Programmes, Hungary. Social Land Programmes aim to strengthen self-sufficiency and reduce reliance on social aid by helping people with no financial means to engage with small-scale agriculture. The case study investigated eight rural communities participating in a Social Land Programme. Innovative features include bottom up organisation designed and carried out locally (in contrast to top-down public employment programmes in Hungary). For local leaders, producing food and improving living standard are its main points. They also see various other benefits that include improving the social and physical environment and passing on positive role models within the family. However, they consider national goals of increased employment and self-sustainability to be over optimistic.

The Roman Garden

1950 ◽  
Vol 19 (57) ◽  
pp. 97-105
Author(s):  
James Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Private Life ◽  
First Century ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Political Views ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Social Habits ◽  
Almost All

Aman's character is judged not merely by his public services and his political views but also by his private life and individual interests. Similarly the history of a nation is to be read not only in its military exploits, its constitutional experiments, its art and literature, but also in the social habits and predominant interests of its citizens. Just as a garden mirrors the character of its owner, so the gardens of a nation reflect the character and the degree of advancement of the State. It is no coincidence that the popular garden of the Roman Republic was the simple kitchen garden, while under the Empire pretentious landscape gardens were the vogue. The vitalizing energy of the Republic found an outlet in the productive vegetable plot: the elaborate but sterile gardens of the Empire were symbolic of incipient decay.Until the first century b.c. almost all Roman gardens were cottage gardens. Their plan and culture were governed solely by practical needs. From them the mistress of the house used to replenish her larder and medicine-chest and adorn the family shrine with flowers. Pliny the Elder reminds the luxury-seeking populace of a later date that in the past at Rome a garden was the poor man's estate: it was the only market he had from which to provide himself with food. The prime function of a garden was to make its owner self-sufficient. This self-sufficiency was more easy of attainment in ancient Italy than in more northerly countries, for the diet of the Romans consisted, for the most part, of salads.

scholarly journals HUMA ORANG BADUY DALAM PEMBENTUKAN SIKAP SWASEMBADA PANGAN

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 559
Author(s):  
Yudi Putu Satriadi
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Traditional Management ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Family ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Depth Interviews

AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji peran budaya lokal dalam mendukung program ketahanan pangan. Penelitian dilakukan di daerah Baduy menggunakan metoda survei, observasi, wawancara mendalam dan analis deskriptif. Fokus kajian dilakukan terhadap huma sebagai sumber penghasil pangan untuk memenuhi kebutuhan keluarga. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa huma sebagai sumber penghasil pangan diatur pengelolaannya mengikuti adat yang dilestarikan dengan  beberapa kriteria yaitu mempertahankan tata ruang melalui pembatasan perubahan tata guna lahan; memerhatikan  waktu yang diperlukan   untuk pengembalian status nutrisi lahan dan optimasi komponen biotik dan abiotik untuk mendukung produksi; mempertahankan komponen ekosistem untuk mendukung produktivitas huma, meminimalisasi biaya produksi melalui pembatasan pengolahan lahan, tidak merokok, mengurangi pembicaraan yang tidak produktif, lebih mengefisienkan waktu kerja, serta mengatur peruntukan padi dan beras dengan pengaturan pendistribusian yang ketat.  Penelitian ini memberikan 3 rekomendasi yaitu (i) kearifan lokal tetap dipertahankan dengan memerhatikan kemajuan ilmu pengetahuan dan teknologi untuk mendukung swasembada pangan; (ii) menyesuaikan daya dukung lingkungan dengan program eksploitasi;  (iii)  menyusun tata ruang berdasarkan potensi penggunaan lahan dan kajian sosial budaya.  AbstractThis study aims to assess the role of local culture in supporting security programs of food self-supporting in the Baduyarea.  This research conducted a survey method, observation, in-depth interviews and descriptive analysis. This study focusonhuma as a source of food to meet the needs of the family. The results showed that the huma as a source of food is set to follow the traditional management preserved with some criteria.They are: maintaining spatial through the restrictions on land use changing, paying attention to the time required for returning the nutritional status of the land and optimizingthe biotic and abiotic components to support production, maintaining ecosystem components to support huma productivity, minimizing production costs through restrictions on land management, not smoking, reducing unproductive talks, being more efficient in working time, as well as regulating the allotment of rice and rice with a tightdistribution. This study provides three recommendations: (i) local knowledge is maintained by taking into account the advancement of science and technology to support food self-sufficiency; (ii) adjusting the carrying capacity of the environment to the exploitation program; (iii) developing spatial based on potential land use and socio-cultural studies.

scholarly journals Work and Welfare: Lessons on Employment Programs

1990 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith M Gueron
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Social Welfare Policy ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Ongoing Effort ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Family Support Act ◽  
The Family ◽  
Employment Programs

The nation's social welfare policy reflects an ongoing effort to balance sometimes competing objectives—alleviating poverty and promoting self-sufficiency—in a manner consistent with underlying public values about the primacy of the family and the importance of work. Concern has been growing that the welfare system has not been doing this very well, and welfare reform once again moved towards the top of the policy agenda, resulting in passage of the Family Support Act of 1988 (FSA). This paper discusses what economists know about the potential of one central component of the new legislation: the effort to transform welfare from a means-tested entitlement into a reciprocal obligation, in which getting a welfare check would carry with it a requirement to look for and accept a job, or to participate in activities that prepare people for work. It sets the context for this discussion by briefly outlining why this approach to reform gained support and by summarizing major policy and program alternatives.

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