STRATEGIES HOUSEHOLDS ADOPT TO ENSURE FOOD SECURITY IN SOUTH-EAST, NIGERIA

Agricultural Education and Training

Food security is very important for the survival of households. Due to the importance of food security, it became necessary to ascertain the strategies households adopt to ensure household food security. Hence the study seeks to ascertain the strategies households adopt in ensuring food security in South East Nigeria. The study also seeks to identify the level of house hold food security as well as the constraints to household food security. Four research questions were posed to guide the study. The study will adopt a case study research design and will be carried out in South East Nigeria. The population for the study consists of all rural household members located within the 5 states of the region which equates 450, 000. From the five states, 5000 households will be randomly selected yielding a sample size of 5000 households. The oldest person available from each of the 5000 households will be selected and form part of the respondents involved in the focus group discussion. A focus group discussion schedule will be used to guide the focus group discussion. Data collected will be analyzed qualitatively and points which are suggested by a majority of the participants will form part of the findings of the study. It is expected that the strategies that households employ to ensure food security in South East Nigeria will be discovered and the researcher hopes that the findings of the study will help to identify strategies that will help to solve the issue of food insecurity in the area.

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