Abstract:
We studied the determining factors that are significantly linked to food insecurity in rural areas. The most affected households are those having large size, those who devote a part of their expenses in the education of their children in the year preceding the food insecurity occurrence, and those who have experienced flood and drought event in the year preceding the food insecurity occurrence. From the model results, we learn that animal possession, the number of cultivated fields, expenses on agricultural tools and seeds reduce the risk of exposure to food insecurity. In view of these results, for the effectiveness of the fight against food insecurity, a political from authorities that strives to master the control factors associated with it is needed. Policies and strategies that involve the control of agricultural input prices and subsidies on chemical fertilizers and seeds are essential to sustain the fight against food insecurity.
This study is also based on vulnerability resilience indicator across regional levels following Temesgen Deressa, Rashid M. Hassan and Claudia Ringler (2008).The resilience is computed as the net effect of exposure and sensitivity on adaptive capacity and the higher net value the lesser vulnerability. The result shows that rural households living in the regions of Dosso and Tahoua are relatively less vulnerable because of their high adaptive capacity than those of the five other regions of which those of Zinder and Niamey are the most vulnerable due to their high sensitivity and exposure to climate stress. |
