Perceived effects of drought on household food security in South-western Uganda: Coping responses and determinants
| Autor: | Hannington Odongo, David Mfitumukiza, Viola N. Nyakato, Barbara Naggayi, Grace Mutoni, Bernard Barasa, Ronald Twongyirwe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Atmospheric Science
Coping (psychology) Food security 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Geography Planning and Development 0207 environmental engineering food and beverages 02 engineering and technology Crop cultivation lcsh:QC851-999 Management Monitoring Policy and Law Livelihood 01 natural sciences Food insecurity Geography Crop production lcsh:Meteorology. Climatology 020701 environmental engineering Socioeconomics 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Multinomial logistic regression |
| Zdroj: | Weather and Climate Extremes, Vol 24, Iss, Pp-(2019) |
| ISSN: | 2212-0947 |
| Popis: | Food insecurity is a region–wide problem in Sub-Saharan Africa, exacerbated by severe drought, with devastating impacts at the household level. However, farmers' coping strategies and their determinants remain under–documented. In this study, we: 1) characterise relationships between perceptions of drought and food insecurity and corresponding household coping responses, 2) compare livelihood characteristics of farmers that perceived food insecurity as a problem and those who did not, and 3) investigate how household-level characteristics correspond to household coping strategies. Our study is exploratory in nature: we administered a questionnaire to 140 farmers in Isingiro district in South-west (SW) Uganda whose livelihood is predominantly dependent on crop production. We employ binomial and multinomial logistic regression models to identify the determinants of the respondents’ perceptions, how household characteristics correspond to household perceptions of food insecurity, and factors that affect coping responses. Our data show that 68.6% of the respondents perceived food insecurity as a problem in their household. Access to credit for crop cultivation increased the likelihood (p |
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