아프리카ㆍ중동

Ninety six households were randomly selected for a cross sectional survey from September to October in 2014 in Dodoma municipal, Tanzania. The survey collected information on socioeconomic and farming characteristics of the sample households to find out the main determinants of household food security (HFS). We adopted the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale (HFIAS) developed by the Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance (FANTA). We investigated whether households have experienced problems in accessing food for the last 30 days. Given the Likert scale, the households were asked to evaluate the role of municipal council’s activities related to food security such as land use policies and activities related to extension, farm input, clean water, sanitation, and marketing services. Our findings show that household incomes, educational level, land ownership, and landholding size are significantly related to the household food security. About 40% of the households often worry about food supply, 5% sleeps feeling hungry and 3% goes a whole day and night without eating food. Most households had positive views on water and sanitation services; however the services have been made possible because of assistance from international organizations. The households appeared to consider agricultural input services the most important factor affecting their food security, but had the least satisfaction on the role of Dodoma municipal in providing agricultural input services. It suggests that increasing the agricultural input services might enhance the HFS in Dodoma municipal.