Land access, livelihoods, and dietary diversity in a fragile setting in northern Uganda

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems

Sustainable Food Systems

Yunhee Kang¹  Aki Suzuki²  Sarika Ganganaboina²  Andy Tran²  Theresa Fang²  Kyunghoo Roh³  Jeongeun Son³ 

[1] Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States;Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States;World Vision Korea, Seoul, South Korea;

关键词: food system;    refugee;    food security;    crop diversity;    Uganda;    climate change;    resilience;    disaster;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fsufs.2023.1178386

 received in 2023-03-02, accepted in 2023-04-06,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Food systems in fragile contexts are hardly investigated. We examined the crop value chain activities, agriculture income, coping strategy, and food consumption score (FCS) among South Sudan refugees (n = 394; refugee HH) and Uganda host communities (n = 420; host HH) living on the northern border of Uganda. Secondary data analysis was conducted using baseline data collected from an NGO-supported project. Linear regression analysis was conducted to test the association between the type of crop for growing and selling, agriculture income, coping strategy, and FCS in the refugee HH and host HH, separately. The mean number of growing and selling crops was 2.7 (SD 1.7) and 0.6 (1.0) in the refugee HH and 3.6 (1.4) and 1.3 (1.1) in the host HH. Overall food insecurity and FCS was poor in both refugee and host HH. Larger land access was associated with diverse crop production and crop selling in both groups (p < 0.05). The greater number of crop types grown was marginally associated with FCS in host HH only (β = 1.00; p = 0.05). Selling more types of crops was associated with agriculture income in both groups (p < 0.05) and was not related to rCSI in either group, but marginally associated with FCS among only host HH (β = 0.84; p = 0.04). An inequitable food system existed between the host community and South Sudan refugees residing on the northern border of Uganda. The findings suggest that diversifying crops for selling and enhancing marketing channels could aid both host and refugee communities in establishing resilient food systems.

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