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Title: Contextual and Individual Factors of Moderate and Severe Food Insecurity Among Men in Cameroon
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Publication Year: 2022
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Abstract: The approach of the deadline for achieving the Sustainable Developement Goals in general, and particularly the Zero Hunger goal by the year 2030 (SDG2, target 2.1), should be marked by a significant improvement in the indicators that measure the level of change in the situation relative to the reference date ; but the UN agencies ( FAO, IFAD, UNICEF,WFP, WHO ) which joinly carry out studies on the state of food security and nutrition in the world, said the achievement of SDG2 is compromise, even threatened. Endeed, the number of people who suffered from hunger (who are in severe food insecurity) in the world is estimated at 696 million in 2019, an increase of 10 million compared to the year 2018 (FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, WHO , 2020). This rise in food insecurity is also observe in the countries of Sub- Saharan Africa and particularly in Cameroon. Thus, given the high level of food insecurity (AI) among men in Cameoon, a study to better define the profile of these men and understand the high prevalence of AI among them has proven to be relevant. The data used come from the Demographic and Health Survey carried out in Cameroon in 2018(IPUMS- DHS,2018). Descriptive multivariate analysis and multilevel logistic regression are the methods that were used to obtain the following results : Moderate food insecurity is much more prevalent among men who generaly live in rural areas that are home to very poor or poor households in the East or Nord West region, they are usually farmers. Further more,men who are seriously food insecure live in communities with a high proportion of poor households in rural areas of the Littoral without Douala or in the city of Douala(it’s being the precarious neighborthoods of this city), they have usually at least two wives/partners.
Url: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1olNPVJmQ-K-b_fs4qPGrwSCM-dZEm9wg/view
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Authors: Marcial, Rodrigue
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Data Collections: IPUMS Global Health - DHS
Topics: Methodology and Data Collection, Natural Resource Management
Countries: Cameroon