- Food security
- Food security
NOTE:
Adopter Households are defined as households where any of the members responded Yes to the question: “During the last 12 months, were [CSA practice X] implemented in your household/farm?”
Non-Adopter Households are defined as households where all the members surveyed responded NO to the question: “During the last 12 months, were [CSA practice X] implemented in your household/farm?”
4.1 Households’ main food source (CSA Adopters; non-adopters)
Percentage of households that responded the to question: “During the last 12 months, the food eaten within your household came mainly from:”
| Main food source | N | Percentage of households |
|---|---|---|
| Food support from outside | 142 | 2% |
| On-farm (self) production | 56% | |
| Purchased (market) | 42% |
Percentage of CSA adopter and Non-adoper Households that responded to the question: “During the last 12 months, the food eaten within your household came mainly from:”
| Type of households | Main food source | N | Percentage of households |
|---|---|---|---|
| Non-adopters | Food support from outside | 62 | 3% |
| On-farm (self) production | 24% | ||
| Purchased (market) | 73% | ||
| Adopters | Food support from outside | 80 | 1% |
| On-farm (self) production | 80% | ||
| Purchased (market) | 19% |
4.2 Households’ dependency on external aid
It is considered that a household is food dependent when they express that their main source of food is family or community members.
Percentage of households, adopters and non-adopters who answered “Other family / community members” or “Food support from outside the community” to the question: During the last 12 months, the food eaten within your household came mainly from:
There was no households reporting Food dependency
4.3 Households’ fulfillment of basic food needs
Percentage of households, adopters and non-adopters who answered Yes to the question: Have there been any months within the last twelve where you or anyone in your household did not have access to enough food?
| Type of household | Access to enough food | N | Percentage of households |
|---|---|---|---|
| Non-Adopter | Yes | 62 | 97% |
| Adopters | Yes | 80 | 95% |
Percentage of households, adopters and non-adopters, from the different CSV communties that answered Yes to the question: Have there been any months within the last twelve where you or anyone in your household did not have access to enough food?
| CSV community | Type of household | N | Percentage of households, |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bagri | Non-Adopters | 9 | 89% |
| Adopters | 11 | 100% | |
| Biraljuri | Non-Adopters | 10 | 100% |
| Adopters | 10 | 100% | |
| Galua | Non-Adopters | 9 | 100% |
| Adopters | 11 | 91% | |
| Galua-Durgapur | Non-Adopters | 8 | 100% |
| Adopters | 12 | 100% | |
| Nangguli | Non-Adopters | 10 | 100% |
| Adopters | 10 | 90% | |
| Noikathi | Non-Adopters | 10 | 100% |
| Adopters | 10 | 90% | |
| Pargopalpur | Non-Adopters | 6 | 83% |
| Adopters | 16 | 94% |
4.4 Household Food Insecurity Access Score (HFIAS)
The HFIAS scale is a continuous measure of the degree of food insecurity (access). The higher the score, the more food insecurity a household experiences, the lower the score, the lower the food insecurity a household experiences, the average HFIAS indicator is:
Percentage of households experiencing specific Food Insecurity Score (HFIAS) levels
4.4.1 The Household Food Insecurity Access Prevalence (HFIAP)
The final indicator is a categorical indicator that expresses the Prevalence of The Household Food Insecurity Access Prevalence (HFIAP). The following describes the conditions that a household must meet to classify in one or another category of the indicator.
A household with food security: does not experience any of the conditions of food insecurity, or simply experiences concern, but rarely.
A family with mild food insecurity: worries about not having enough food from time to time, or can’t eat favorite foods, or eat a more monotonous diet than desired or some foods are considered undesirable, but only rarely. But it does not reduce the amount or experience any of the three most serious conditions (running out of food, going to bed hungry or spending the whole day and night without eating).
A household with moderate food insecurity: sacrifices quality more frequently, eating a monotonous diet or undesirable foods sometimes or frequently, or has begun to reduce the amount or size of meals, rarely or sometimes. But he does not experience any of the three most severe conditions.
Severe food insecurity: is provided in homes where the size or quantity of meals has been reduced frequently, or experiences any of the three most serious conditions (running out of food, going to bed with hunger or go all day and night without eating), even infrequently as rarely. In other words, any household experiencing one of these three conditions is considered severely insecure to food.
Percentage of households in each category of food insecurity prevalence
Percentage of the different types of households (Adopters and Non-adopters) in each category of food insecurity prevalence from each CSV community
Percentage of the different types of households (Adopters and Non-adopters) in each category of food insecurity prevalence
4.5 Households’ diversification of production for self-consumption
4.5.1 “Climate-induced” households’ production diversification for self-consumption
New Crops
Percentage of households that responded: These additional crops that you had in the last 12 months in the household were for:
There were no households that introduced new crops in the monitored period.
New livestock types
Percentage of households in each of the categories of the question: These new livestock types that you began to breed in the last 12 months in the household were for:
| N | Percentage of households | |
|---|---|---|
| household consumption | 1 | 100% |
4.5.2 Autonomous households’ production diversification for self-consumption
New Crops
Percentage of households that responded: These new crops that you had on your farm in the last planting season were for:
There were no households that introduced new crops in the monitored period.
New Cattle
Percentage of households that responded: These new animals that began to breed on their farm in the last planting season were for:
There were no households that introduced new Cattle in the monitored period.
HFIAS References
Swindale, A., & Bilinsky, P. (2007). Household food insecurity access scale (HFIAS) for measurement of household food access: indicator guide (v. 3). Washington, DC: Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project, Academy for Educational Development.