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Presentation at the Food Security & Agriculture Cluster

15th Jan 2013

ACF food security assessment in Hodeida and Hajjah governorates

Assessment location

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Assessment tools

District # Households interviews Market surveys Key informant interviews Focus Group discussions

Al Khawkhah 87 (68 Male HH; 19Female HH) 3 5 10 (5 male, 5 female) Jabal Ras 132 (97 male HH; 35 Female HH) 7 7 10 (5 male, 5 female) Bura 134 (96 male HH; 38 Female HH) 7 6 10 (5 male, 5 female) Aslem 138 (100 male HH; 38 female HH) 3 5 14 (8 male, 6 female) Bani Qais 214 (146 male HH; 68 Female HH) 6 6 10 (6 male, 4 female) Totals 705 HH (507 male HH; 198 female HH) 26 29 54 (29 male, 25 female)

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Findings: Demography, Household & community profile

• Female-headed households: 26.3% in Hodeida; and 30.1%

in Hajjah

• No formal education: 74.8% in Hodeida and 71% in Hajjah
• Children: 57.9% in Hodeida and 61.8% in Hajjah of

surveyed household members

• Adult of productive age: 36.9% in Hodeida and 34.1% in

Hajjah (very high dependency ratios, exceeding 60% in both governorates)

• Average household size: 7.8 members in Hodeida and 7 in

Hajjah

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Land ownership

77% 69.40% 44.70% 74.30% 66.70% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% Own land Landless

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Utilisation of harvest

• 76.5% in Hodeida and 84.3% in Hajjah of all harvested

produce consumed at the household level

• 5.7% in Hodeida and 4.5% in Hajjah of harvest used as

livestock fodder

• Harvest not sufficient to meet household food needs –

meet an average of 3 months needs only

• Rely on market produces for the rest of the months

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Livestock Production

• 66% in Hodeida and 75% in Hajjah of households keep
• ne form of livestock or another
• Households benefit from a “unique livestock

arrangement” where influential people give out their livestock to be taken care (50:50 sharing)

• Challenges faced:
• Access to grazing land: 75.1% in Hodeida & 57.7% in

Hajjah

• Access to vet services: 54.9% in Hodeida and 32.8% in

Hajjah

• Access to water points: 21.5% in Hodeida

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Months of adequate household food provisioning (MAHFP)

12.50% 24.80% 19.50% 27.40% 27%

0.00% 20.00% 40.00% 60.00% 80.00% 100.00% 120.00% Al Khawkhah Jabal Ras Bura Bani Qais Aslem

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Sources of income

• Dependence of poor households on selling their

labour is high: 31.5% in Hodeida and 43.6% in Hajjah

• Remittances account for sizeable amount of income:

11.5% in Hodeida and 24.2% in Hajjah

• Sale of livestock and livestock related products

accounts for 10% in Hodeida and 12% in Hajjah

• 9% of households in Hajjah depends on gifts and aid as

their predominant income source

• Al-Khawkhah main income source for 35.7% of the

households surveyed is sale of fish and fishery related products

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Households Expenditure patterns

• Food is the single biggest monthly expenditure item

across all districts (78.3% in Hodeida and 80.7% in Hajjah)

• Health-related expenditures: about 7.8% in Hodeida

and 7.4%.

• Other expenditures: Education (2.5%); transport (2.3%)
• Qat expenditures: 3.8% in Hodeida and 1.7% in Hajjah

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FCS: Food Security status

District Severely food insecure (poor) Moderately food insecure (borderline) Food secure (acceptable) Al-Khawkhah 15.3% 29.4% 55.3% Jabal Ras 13.6% 34.8% 37.8% Bura 23.6% 37.8% 38.6% Bani Qais 22.9% 39.5% 37.6% Aslem 23.3% 43.6% 33.1%

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• 168,476 persons in these districts are food insecure (severely and

moderately).

• 57.3% of female headed households were food insecure as compared to

50.5% male-headed households in Hodeida . For Hajjah: 66.3% FHH as compared to 59.2% MHH

Coping mechanisms

• During the course of the preceding week, 28.6% of households in

Hodeida and 19% in Hajjah experienced difficulties in accessing enough food.

• Most prevalent food related coping strategies adopted was: relying
• n less preferred food (5.9 days); purchasing food on credit (5.2

days); limiting portion size at meal times (4.8 days) and sending household members to beg (4.6 days)

• No significant difference in coping strategies between male and

female headed households.

• Most significant livelihood coping strategy was migration (25.8% in

Hodeida, 19.6% in Hajjah with 51.4% in Hajjah and 24.2% in Hodeida

• f this migration been to outside Yemen
• Women rendered de-facto household heads due to this migration

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