Department of Agricultural Administration and Marketing, University for Development Studies, Tamale, Ghana.
African Centre of Crop Improvement, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Ecol Food Nutr. 2022 Jan-Feb;61(1):1-19. doi: 10.1080/03670244.2021.1913585. Epub 2021 Apr 28.
Despite Rwanda's impressive economic success over the last decade, household food insecurity persists, particularly in rural areas. Empirical evidence is therefore deemed necessary to inform policies addressing food insecurity, hunger and poverty in general. This study examines household food security and its determinants in the rural areas of Southern and Northern provinces of Rwanda. Using cross-sectional data collected from 534 farming households, we estimated household food security status by Food Consumption Score (FCS) and Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) and applied ordered Probit model to identify drivers of household food security. The results indicate that a significant proportion (74.4%) of households had an acceptable FCS, but 36.52% of the farming households experienced moderate and severe food insecurity when assessed with FIES. Ownership of livestock was identified as a key determinant of food security using both metrics, which affirms the importance of combating hunger and food insecurity in Rwanda through their 'one cow per household policy' and recommends that this policy be strengthened.
尽管卢旺达在过去十年中取得了令人瞩目的经济成就，但家庭粮食不安全问题仍然存在，特别是在农村地区。因此，有必要提供实证证据，为解决粮食不安全、饥饿和贫困问题提供政策参考。本研究考察了卢旺达南部和北部省份农村地区的家庭粮食安全及其决定因素。研究使用从 534 个农户收集的横截面数据，通过食物消费得分（FCS）和食物不安全体验量表（FIES）评估了家庭粮食安全状况，并应用有序概率模型确定了家庭粮食安全的驱动因素。结果表明，相当一部分（74.4%）家庭的 FCS 可接受，但当使用 FIES 评估时，36.52%的农户经历了中度和重度粮食不安全。牲畜所有权被确定为这两种衡量标准下粮食安全的关键决定因素，这证实了通过“每户一头牛”政策来消除卢旺达饥饿和粮食不安全问题的重要性，并建议加强这一政策。
