Cross Sectional Study On Household Food Insecurity and Associated Factors in adult health status in Afghanistan

Abstract

Everybody has the right to food security, which ought to be provided everywhere. There are many levels of food insecurity in Afghanistan, which covers the province of Nangarhar. Policy decision-making requires evaluation in order to be supported. The purpose of the current study was to ascertain the prevalence of food insecurity and the contributing factors in the province of Nangarhar. Using the 18-item home food security survey module from the US Department of Agriculture, 284 heads of household were questioned in-person for the current study. cooperation as well as civility. With the use of SPSS v.23 and the chi-square test, the relationship between the independent and dependent variables was investigated. Fifty-four percent of the families had extremely poor food security, followed by moderate food security (5.6%), low food security (14.9%), and excellent food security (94.4%). In comparison, food insecurity affected 49.6% of households. The results showed that there was a significant correlation between the type of district (2 = 84.99, P = 0.000), age (2 = 75.88, P = 0.000), marital status (2 = 59.17, P = 0.000), education level(2 = 52.72, P = 0.000), number of families in the household (2 = 90.40, P = 0.000), number of household members (2 = 90.09, P = 0.000), ownership of the house building (2 = 58.18, P = 0.000), monthly income (~^2 = 147.26, P = 0.000), spouse education level (2 = 10.00, P = 0.019), land size for agriculture (~^2 = 38..61, P = 0.000), and number of livestock (2^2 = 23.38, P = 0.246). Inconclusion, the province ofNangarhar still has a high rate offood insecurity. Responsible businesses should create and carry out efficient programs that give priority to the most disadvantaged target groups according to their sociodemographic traits in order to address this problem.