Abstract
This study has attempted to evaluate the household food security status of peri-urban modern small scale irrigation project beneficiaries. To attain this objective, a cross sectional survey method using structured questionnaire was employed on randomly selected 333 households. Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS), Food Consumption Score (FCS) and Per Capita Net Food Availability (NAF) were employed to evaluate the household food security status of the sample households. Furthermore, FGT family of indices were also computed. The HDDS result of this survey revealed that seven food groups were reported to be consumed with the mean HDDS value of 3.42, 3.84 and 3.21 for total samples, participants and non-participants respectively. The calculated FCS value for total samples, participants and non-participants was 42.74, 44.89 and 41.64 respectively. Furthermore, the computed NAF value revealed that of the total samples, 198 and 135 households were found to be food secure and food insecure respectively. This study illustrated household food insecurity, low dietary diversity and food consumption to be far more noticeable in non-participants than participants.
Highlights
Food insecurity has been a problem of worry to humanity from the beginning of time
According to [6], food security is generally about to deteriorate at the aggregate level as the share of population that is food insecure is projected to rise over 15% by 2025
The Chisquare test statistical association result showed no significant differences between participant and nonparticipant households in their food security status at all probability levels
Summary
Food insecurity has been a problem of worry to humanity from the beginning of time It becomes a prominent policy agenda as a result of recent food crises both at a regional and global level as well as renewed commitment from donor nations to address chronic hunger [1]. The emergence of food security as a concept traced back to the 1974 United Nation Food and Agricultural Organization, World Food Conference in Rome at the time of global food crisis. This conference considered food availability as a central argument which stated “a secure, adequate and a suitable food supply for everyone”. The 1996 World Food Summit and the United Nations Millennium Declarations (2000) targeted to halve the world’s hungry people by 2015 [3]
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