干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Livelihoods and Food Security Among Rural Households in the North-Western Mount Kenya Region

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DOI	10.3389/fsufs.2019.00098
	Livelihoods and Food Security Among Rural Households in the North-Western Mount Kenya Region
	Mutea, Emily; Bottazzi, Patrick; Jacobi, Johanna; Kiteme, Boniface; Speranza, Chinwe Ifejika; Rist, Stephan
通讯作者	Mutea, E
来源期刊	FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
EISSN	2571-581X
出版年	2019
卷号	3
英文摘要	Food insecurity remains a major concern for numerous rural households in Sub-Saharan Africa who rely on agriculture as their main source of livelihood. The assessment of the links between food security and livelihoods is central for overcoming widespread food insecurity. However, assessments remain challenging due to food security's multi-dimensionality and the challenge of finding indicators that are comparable and applicable to various contexts. This study addresses this challenge by adapting a food security index (FSI) and uses it to assess the livelihood drivers of food security. The index captures the multi-dimensionality of food security using conventional food security indicators. The assessed indicators include measures of food consumption score, household dietary diversity score, coping strategies index, the household food insecurity access scale, and months of adequate household food provisioning. The study covered 600 randomly selected households representative of three agro-ecological zones located close to large-scale agricultural investment in Mount Kenya region in Kenya. We used linear regression to identify livelihood factors significantly influencing food security. Spearman's rank-order correlation and student's T-test demonstrated a strong and significant correlation between the composite FSI index and each classical indicators of food security. Overall, 32% of the households were food secure and 68% were food insecure. Households' ownership of productive hand tools, followed by off-farm income, consumption of own produced food, type of agro-ecological zone, farm income and number of main crops infested by pests had a significant effect on household food security. All these factors, except the number of main crops infested by pests, were found to positively influence household food security. Households in humid agro-ecological zone were less food secure than households in semi-humid and semi-arid zones. Household size, the size of accessible land and households' members' participation to large agricultural investments (as wage workers or sub-contract farmer) were not significantly influencing food security. Households of the Mount Kenya region need alternative off-farm income sources combined with further support to improve sustainable agriculture management with appropriate hand tools.
英文关键词	food security Kenya livelihoods food security index Mount Kenya
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold, Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000535757300001
WOS关键词	HIGHLAND-LOWLAND SYSTEM ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; LAIKIPIA ; CONFLICTS
WOS类目	Food Science & Technology
WOS研究方向	Food Science & Technology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/334138
作者单位	[Mutea, Emily; Bottazzi, Patrick; Speranza, Chinwe Ifejika; Rist, Stephan] Univ Bern, Inst Geog, Geog & Sustainable Dev, Bern, Switzerland; [Bottazzi, Patrick; Jacobi, Johanna] Univ Bern, Ctr Dev & Environm, Bern, Switzerland; [Kiteme, Boniface] Ctr Training & Integrated Res ASALs Dev, Nanyuki, Kenya; [Rist, Stephan] Univ Bern, UNESCO Chair Sustainable Mt Dev, Bern, Switzerland
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Mutea, Emily,Bottazzi, Patrick,Jacobi, Johanna,et al. Livelihoods and Food Security Among Rural Households in the North-Western Mount Kenya Region[J],2019,3.
APA	Mutea, Emily,Bottazzi, Patrick,Jacobi, Johanna,Kiteme, Boniface,Speranza, Chinwe Ifejika,&Rist, Stephan.(2019).Livelihoods and Food Security Among Rural Households in the North-Western Mount Kenya Region.FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS,3.
MLA	Mutea, Emily,et al."Livelihoods and Food Security Among Rural Households in the North-Western Mount Kenya Region".FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS 3(2019).