Food Security and Livelihood of Rural Households of Songololo Territory in Kongo Central Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mawunu Monizi; Eduardo Afonso; Balomba Panzu; Asaph Mohindo Ayisa; Gédéon Bongo; Koto-te-Nyiwa Ngbolua

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Food Security and Livelihood of Rural Households of Songololo Territory in Kongo Central Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Mawunu Monizi, Eduardo Afonso, Balomba Panzu, Asaph Mohindo Ayisa, Gédéon Bongo, Koto-te-Nyiwa Ngbolua

Published in International Journal of Health Economics and Policy (Volume 2, Issue 3)

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Abstract

The survey was conducted from May to July 2012 on security, food consumption and livelihoods of 172 rural households in three administrative districts of Songololo territory, located about 200 km to the West of Kinshasa. From these investigations, we considered several food insecurity indicators namely the determining access scale household food insecurity and the household dietary diversity score. Data analysis showed that food security in a rural area highly depends on the socio-demographic and economic profile of the household head, the level of education, the facilities, the gender, the livelihood used, henceforth the need to know the household profile of these households. Songololo rural household food access is mainly done through their own agricultural production (physical access), buying from the small rural local market or through the sale by means of labor power (economic access). The more educated is the household head, the more the household is well equipped and high is the food diversity, therefore the chance is less to face food insecurity. Moreover, households headed by men vary their source of income outside of agriculture are less affected by severe food insecurity (25%) than households headed by women (50%). Last, more a household is searching for strategies of living less it is affected by food insecurity.

Published in	International Journal of Health Economics and Policy (Volume 2, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.hep.20170203.12
Page(s)	97-103
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Food Security, Dietary Diversity Score, Rural Households, Livelihood, Socio-economic Profile, Kongo Central, Songololo, DRC

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Mawunu Monizi

Departamento de Agronomia e Jardim Botanico, Escola Superior Politecnica do Uige, Universidade Kimpa Vita, Uige, Angola
Eduardo Afonso

Departamento da Saude e Gestao, Instituto Superior de Angola, Uige, Angola
Balomba Panzu

Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Asaph Mohindo Ayisa

Faculty of Medicine, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Gédéon Bongo

Faculty of Science, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Koto-te-Nyiwa Ngbolua

Faculty of Science, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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