Factors affecting the household food security in Dodoma Municipal, Tanzania

Ladigracia lyakurwa; 정본희 (Bonhee Chung); 주영규 (Young-Kyoo Joo)

doi:10.18350/ipaid.2016.25s.185

Factors affecting the household food security in Dodoma Municipal, Tanzania

Journal of Regional Studies and Development
Abbr : JRSD
2016, (), pp.185-207
DOI : 10.18350/ipaid.2016.25s.185
Publisher : Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development: IPAID
Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Regional Studies in general > Comparative / Statistical Regional Studies
Published : March 25, 2016

Ladigracia lyakurwa ¹, Bonhee Chung ², Young-Kyoo Joo ³

¹The Ministry of Regional Administration, Tanzania
²연세대학교(원주캠퍼스) 빈곤문제국제개발연구원
³연세대학교

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Ninety six households were randomly selected for a cross sectional survey from September to October in 2014 in Dodoma municipal, Tanzania. The survey collected information on socioeconomic and farming characteristics of the sample households to find out the main determinants of household food security (HFS). We adopted the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) developed by the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA). We investigated whether households have experienced problems in accessing food for the last 30 days. Given the Likert scale, the households were asked to evaluate the role of municipal council’s activities related to food security such as land use policies and activities related to extension, farm input, clean water, sanitation, and marketing services. Our findings show that household incomes, educational level, land ownership, and landholding size are significantly related to the household food security. About 40% of the households often worry about food supply, 5% sleeps feeling hungry and 3% goes a whole day and night without eating food. Most households had positive views on water and sanitation services; however the services have been made possible because of assistance from international organizations. The households appeared to consider agricultural input services the most important factor affecting their food security, but had the least satisfaction on the role of Dodoma municipal in providing agricultural input services. It suggests that increasing the agricultural input services might enhance the HFS in Dodoma municipal.

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Tanzania, Dodoma, food security, household perceptions, government interventions

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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