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Prevalence and risk factors for severe food insecurity and poor food consumption during a drought emergency in Ethiopia

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  • Noah Baker
  • Yunhee Kang
  • Gregory Makabila
  • Seifu Tadesse
  • Shannon Doocy

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Frequent drought has heightened nutritional concerns in Ethiopia. This study retrospectively assesses the prevalence and risk factors of severe food insecurity and poor food consumption in Productive Safety Net Programme households in drought-prone Ethiopia. Data was from the USAID-funded Resilience Food Security Activity baseline survey in East Hararghe, Ethiopia. Severe food insecurity (n = 4628; multivariate n = 4335) was defined as Food Insecurity Experience Scale (≥7) and poor food consumption (n = 4554; multivariate n = 4268) was defined as Food Consumption Score (≤21). Logistic regression identified adjusted odds ratio and 95% confidence interval of risk and protective factors. Severe food insecurity prevalence was 77.79% and poor food consumption was 69.74%. Risk factors for severe food insecurity included women/girls aged 15–19 (1.79; 1.36-2.34), current pregnancy (1.51; 1.17-1.96), history of pregnancy (3.46; 2.76-4.33), cash-earning work (1.35; 1.12-1.61), daily-per-capita food consumption

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  • Noah Baker & Yunhee Kang & Gregory Makabila & Seifu Tadesse & Shannon Doocy, 2025. "Prevalence and risk factors for severe food insecurity and poor food consumption during a drought emergency in Ethiopia," PLOS Global Public Health, Public Library of Science, vol. 5(9), pages 1-17, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pgph00:0004636
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0004636
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