Nadege Kougbe Thea*, Nourou Mohammadou and Jean Huge Nlom
About 37.1% of households enjoy food security in Cameroon while the remaining 35.7% of households have limited food security. It was found that at least 30% of Cameroonian household in rural and urban areas remain vulnerable to food insecurity. The present study attempts to examine the effect of entitlement and identify the determinants of food insecurity in Cameroon household. Data are taken from Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2017 collected by the National institute of statistics (INS) of Cameroon. A wealth index was constructed from DHS data and we had employed FANTA III Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) to group food insecurity household. We estimated the determinants of household food insecurity with a one predictor model .i.e. wealth index and a full predictor model including control variables. The main tools of analysis for this study consist of descriptive statistics and partial proportional odds model. Results showed that 22.69% of Cameroon household is severely food insecure and 20.4% are poorer. Regression results revealed that wealth index is highly significant (P<0.01 and P<0.05) determinant of household food insecurity in Cameroon. Control variables such as marital status, number of under-five children and gender of the household head were found to be significant determinant of household food insecurity in the study area. While, predictors like place of residence and household size were found to be non-significant determinants of food insecurity in this study.
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