Review Article

Health science

Analysis of Urban Households’ Food Insecurity in Eastern Zone of Tigray Regional State, Ethiopia

The purpose of this study is to assess the incidence, extent and determinants of food insecurity among urban households in the major towns of Eastern zone of Tigray, Ethiopia, namely Adigrat and Wukro. Data for the study is obtained from 397 randomly selected urban households using structured questionnaire. FGT index and binary logit model are used for data analysis. The finding from FGT index shows that 7.4% and 5.4% of households in Adigrat and Wukro are food insecure, respectively. The depth and severity of food insecurity is 2.1% and 0.1% in Adigrat, and 1.5% and 0.5% in Wukro, respectively. The logistic regression model result reveals that variables such as family size, age of the household head, education status of the household head and credit access are significant factors influencing urban households’ food insecurity in the major towns of the zone at less than 10 % significance level