Resilience Capacity and the Determinants of Rural Household Food Security in Conflict Zones: Lessons from Nigeria

Abstract

It is evident that about 68.65%% of the chronically undernourished people resides in countries plagued with conflict, and this condition is exacerbated by climate-related shocks, which is the case of North- East Nigeria. Against this backdrop, this study determines the level of food insecurity, food resilience capacity, and the determinant factors among rural household in Borno State, Nigeria, using 160 sampled secondary data from General Household Survey (GHS), conducted by the Nigeria National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) and the World Bank (WB), collected in 2018-2019. Key findings revealed that 44% of the household in the study area are food insecure with an average food poverty intensity of 0.441, while falling short of the population’s mean percapita food expenditure in the study area by 19% at , and requiring a minimum of about N 53328 to escape this vicious food insecurity embargo, while further analysis on the severity of poverty  showed that this 43% food insecure suffers an average food intensity of 0.6273 and also falls short of the population’s mean per capita food expenditure in the study area by 27% poverty severity level found significant at 5% probability level. The result of the Gini coefficient analysis revealed a high food consumption expenditure inequality margin of 0.83798 among the household in the study area. The Tobit regression shows that access to aid by household negatively influences food poverty, alongside years of formal education, and found significant at 1% probabilistic level respectively. Research study-based finding polices were also proffered.