Evaluation Of The Food Security Of Households Living In Tshumbe Town, Dr Congo

Abstract

A transversal study on the accessibility of households to adequate food was conducted in the second quarter of 2017 in Tshumbe town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A simple random sampling method permits to obtain a sample of 500 households, among which 460 matched inclusion and non-inclusion criteria. The results obtained show that only 7.5 % represents salaried employees and 24% of surveyed people have no profession. Only 11% of the households under investigation have a stock of food at home while 89 % of households didn't have reserves of food. About 67% of households of Tshumbe have only one meal per day and spend less than 1.8 USD for food daily; 72 % of households take at least one hour to access to the point of drinking water and 80 % do have difficult to access to food commodities.