Weldegiargis Aregawi Weldegebreal, Abebe Haftom Temesgen, Abraha Hiluf Ebuy, Abrha Meron Micheale, Tesfay Tsegay Berihu, Belay Rieye Esayas, Araya Alemnesh Abraha, Gebregziabher Mengish Bahresilassie, Godefay Hagos, Mulugeta Afework
School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Mekelle University, Tigray, Ethiopia.
College of Health Science, Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Clinical Governance and Quality Improvement unit, Mekelle University, Tigray, Ethiopia.
Confl Health. 2023 May 5;17(1):22. doi: 10.1186/s13031-023-00520-1.
Exposure to armed conflicts result in strongly adverse and often irreversible short- and long-term effects which may transmit across generations. Armed conflicts directly cause food insecurity and starvation by disruption and destruction of food systems, reduce farming populations, destroying infrastructure, reducing resilience, and increasing vulnerabilities, disruptions in access to market, increasing food price or making goods and services unavailable altogether. The objective of the present study was to determine the status of household food insecurity in the armed conflict affected communities of Tigray in terms of Access, Experience and Hunger scale.
Community-based cross-sectional study was conducted to assess impact of armed conflict on household food insecurity among households with children with under one year. FHI 360 and FAO guidelines were used to quantify household food insecurity and Household hunger status.
Three-fourth of the households had anxiety about food supply and eat undesired monotonous diet due to lack of resources. Households were obliged to eat few kinds of foods, eat smaller meals, eat foods they do not want to eat, or went a whole day without eating any food. Household food insecurity access, food insecurity experience, and hunger scales significantly increased by 43.3 (95% CI: 41.9-44.7), 41.9 (95% CI: 40.5-43.3) and 32.5 (95% CI: 31.0-33.9) percentage points from the prewar period.
Household food insecurity levels and household hunger status of the study communities was unacceptably high. The armed conflict has significant negative effect on food security in Tigray. It is recommended that the study communities need to be protected from the immediate and long-term consequences of conflict-induced household food insecurity.
武装冲突会导致严重的不利影响，且往往会产生不可逆转的短期和长期后果，这些后果可能会代代相传。武装冲突通过扰乱和破坏粮食系统直接导致粮食不安全和饥饿，减少农业人口，破坏基础设施，降低恢复力，增加脆弱性，扰乱市场准入，提高食品价格或使商品和服务完全无法获得。本研究的目的是根据获取、经历和饥饿程度来确定提格雷受武装冲突影响社区的家庭粮食不安全状况。
开展了一项基于社区的横断面研究，以评估武装冲突对有一岁以下儿童家庭的家庭粮食不安全的影响。采用FHI 360和粮农组织的指导方针来量化家庭粮食不安全和家庭饥饿状况。
四分之三的家庭因资源匮乏而对粮食供应感到焦虑，并食用不想要的单一饮食。家庭不得不食用种类有限的食物，少吃多餐，吃他们不想吃的食物，或者一整天不吃任何食物。与战前时期相比，家庭粮食不安全获取、粮食不安全经历和饥饿程度显著增加了43.3个百分点（95%置信区间：41.9 - 44.7）、41.9个百分点（95%置信区间：40.5 - 43.3）和32.5个百分点（95%置信区间：31.0 - 33.9）。
研究社区的家庭粮食不安全水平和家庭饥饿状况高得令人无法接受。武装冲突对提格雷的粮食安全有重大负面影响。建议保护研究社区免受冲突导致的家庭粮食不安全的直接和长期后果的影响。
