Determinants of Urban Food Insecurity in Burayu Town of Sheger City Admnistration in Oromia Region of Ethiopia
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2024-07
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Addis Ababa University
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Food insecurity is a global problem that affects individual, family and nations as a whole. Urban food insecurity is one of the problems that need attention, due to the limitation of most of the studies to the analysis of the risk of food insecurity only as a problem of rural areas. The study analyses the determinants of urban household food insecurity, in Burayu town of Sheger City Administration of Oromia Region in Ethiopia. For this study, a cross sectional data type design and two stage sampling procedure were used to collect 386 sample households randomly in Burayu town; Descriptive statistics and Binary Logistic models were used to describe and analyze the determinants of food insecurity in the study area. The HFIAS results of the study suggested that, most of the households are food insecure, which is about 79% the households in the area were in the risk of food insecurity and 21% of the households were food secure. Based on the HFIAP result, the extent of food insecurity was categorized into; about 26% of the households mildly, 41% moderately, and 12% were severely food insecure. The output of the binary logistic model show that, age, house ownership, income, asset and remittance, educational level of the household heads were negatively and significantly correlated with food insecurity status of household and only dependency ratio and food expenditure were positively associated with food insecurity. Finally, food insecure households were practiced dietary change coping strategies as well as short term i.e. relying on asset and support coping mechanisms to cop up the food shortage. In general, to minimize the risk of food insecurity in the study town, the government and development actors should encourage the food insecure households through short term training on business ideas, give food or financial support for severely food insecure and expand different job opportunities in the town for urban poor.
Key words: Household, Food insecurity, Binary Logistic, Urban, Burayu, Ethiopia