HOUSEHOLD’S RESILIENCE AND FOOD INSECURITY IN RURAL NIGERIA

ADEDAYO,, RUTH ADEFUNKE (2022) HOUSEHOLD’S RESILIENCE AND FOOD INSECURITY IN RURAL NIGERIA. Masters thesis, Landmark University, Omu Aran, Kwara State.

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Abstract

Nigeria as a country is endowed with immense human and natural endowments which, if efficiently utilized, could sustain her citizens plus export its abundance to neighboring countries; unfortunately, the country is enduring a recurrent food shortage with respect to both quantity and quality. This study assessed Households’ resilience and food insecurity in rural Nigeria. The specific objectives were to describe the socio-economic characteristics of the rural households, profile the rural households according to their food security status, profile households according to their resilience categories and determine factors influencing household’s food security status. The study used secondary data obtained from Nigeria Living Standards Survey (NLSS) for 2018/2019. A subset of 15,305 households in rural Nigeria was used for this study. Data were analyzed using Descriptive statistics, Food Security Index, Resilience Index measurement Analysis (RIMA) and Probit Regression Model. The mean age of the respondents was 49 years, 75.3% had formal education with a size of nine people per household. The findings revealed that food insecurity among all rural households was 0.39. this means that about 40% of the rural household were food insecure. Food insecurity depth revealed that Northeast zone had about a 12% shortfall in their daily calorie intake followed closely by households in the Northwest and South-south with 11% respectively. The food insecurity gap was found to be 13%. The finding also established that Out the 15,305 sampled households, 52.2 % are not resilience to food insecurity, implying that when exposed to shocks and pressure such as floods, unfavorable climatic conditions, etc such households do not have the ability to recover swiftly. The result further revealed that 7,314 out of 15,305, (47.8%) of sampled rural households in the study area have strong ability to tolerate and recover from food insecurity. The findings showed that female-headed households are more resilient to food insecurity than male-headed households with 29.06% and 22.56% respectively. Also, the study found that Age, household size, and education were the three main factors that determined whether a person experience food insecurity. The study therefore recommends that men should cease having all their eggs in one basket by having more than one stream of income generating activities and Young people between the ages of 21 and 49 should be gainfully and productively engaged in Nigeria, thereby improving the country's food security situation. Keywords: Food security, Food insecurity, Household resilience, Rural Nigeria.

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