Food Security Status of Internally Displaced Farming Households in Maiduguri Borno State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study examines the determinants of food security status of Internally
Displaced farming households in Maiduguri, Borno state, Nigeria.
primary and secondary data were used for this study. The logit regression
was used to analyze the data obtained via survey. The result on the food
security status of the Internally Displaced Persons shows an index of
N460.50 daily as mean adult expenditure, indicating that 65% of the IDPs
were food insecure while only 35% were food secure. The result on coping
strategy adopted by the Internally Displaced Persons indicates that the
majority of the Internally Displaced Persons (57.1%) access food made
available by national/international NGOs to them and the remaining
(42.9%) used other food insecurity strategies (Borrowing food stuff,
borrow money to buy food, aids from friends and relatives inside/outside
camp, buy food on credit, etc.) to survive. The study concluded that the
Internally Displaced Persons living in Maiduguri camps were food
insecure. Therefore, the study recommends that government and non-
governmental organizations should put measures in place to improve on
the quality and quantity of the food supplied to the Internally Displaced
Persons to improve their food security status.