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Title: | An approach to fieldwork: food security and the ethical issues to be considered in such a study |
Author: | Naidoo, Suvania |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | Africanus (ISSN 0304-615X) |
Volume: | 40 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 53-63 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | professional ethics research methods food security urban households |
Abstract: | This paper discusses the methodology used to conduct a study on the question of which aspects contribute to intrahousehold food security in Robertsham, a middle-income urban area in Johannesburg, South Africa. Food security is an extremely sensitive topic that many are not willing to share their views on. This in itself makes a study of this nature difficult for a researcher because of the ethics that need to be taken into account. The paper explains the methods, tools and techniques that were used to conduct the study. It discusses the difficulties the author, as a researcher, experienced; the ethical considerations that need to be taken into account, as well as the limitations to the study. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |