The prevalence and effect of job insecurity, delineated by recent household job loss and employment status, and food insufficiency, measured through levels of food insufficiency, were analyzed across households with different age groups of children: under 5 years, 5–11 years, and 12–17 years, ...
This study therefore explored the factors determining food insecurity among households in Gombe metropolis, Gombe State of Nigeria. The household data used in this study were collected through administration of copies of questionnaire. While employing summary statistics and logist...
There has been a rise in the number of overweight women across the globe and sub-Saharan Africa has not been spared. Our objective was to describe the performance of household food security as a factor in determining overweight and underweight among Keny
were to examine how the presence of an adult with one or more chronic physical or mental health conditions affects the odds of a household being food insecure and how the chronic ill-health of an adult within a food-insecure household affects the severity of that household's food insecurity....
Cronbach's alpha and Rasch-model-based item fit statistics were used to assess reliability and internal validity. Fifty-one percent of households were food insecure. Significant HFI predictors were unemployed to employed family members' ratio of >3:1 ( Odds Ratio 2.1, Confidence Interval 1.2 – ...
A significant proportion of the country’s population is highly vulnerable to food insecurity for any natural or man-made shocks. For example, the 2016 El Niño left about 10.2 million Ethiopians in need of emergency food and nutrition assistance. Recent statistics show that, in the Somali ...
Household food security in a coastal rural community of South Africa: Status, causes and coping strategies Food insecurity is a challenge in rural South Africa. This paper employed descriptive statistics, household food accessibility index, and ordinal regressio... S Ndhleve,L Musemwa,L Zhou - ...
Aliber, M. (2009) `Exploring Statistics South Africa's National House- hold Surveys as Sources of Information About Food Security and Subsistence Agriculture', Agrekon, Vol. 48.Aliber, M. (2009) Exploring Statistics South Africa's national household surveys as sources of information about food ...
University students are often affected by food insecurity (FI) and this situation has been associated with low consumption of fruit/vegetables and high intake of added sugars and sweet drinks. However, there needs to be more evidence on the association between FI and dietary patterns (DPs), asse...
Table 1 Summary statistics of the variables used Full size table The survey was designed by researchers from Royal Holloway University of London, King’s College London, the University of Central Lancashire (all UK), and the University Eldoret (Kenya) and was administered, in person, by research...