Analysis of the resilient guarantee of urban households raising animals in the face of food and nutritional security

Abstract

The objective of this study is to check if the initiative of raising chickens or pigs by poor households in the peripheral districts of the city of Kisangani is a guarantee and a resilience to the food and nutritional security of households. Analysis of the survey data shows that the average household income from chickens is significantly higher than that from pigs rasing households (US$429.9 >US$180.8). The percentage of households living in food and nutritional insecurity are higher than the average for the city of Kisangani, which is 33.6%. The same observation is true for the percentage of children aged 6 to 59 months suffering from acute and chronic malnutrition and underweight that are higher among households raising chickens or pigs than the averages for the city of Kisangani. We came to the conclusion that the initiation of raising chickens or pigs is not a guarantee of food and nutritional security for poor households in the peripheral districts of the city of Kisangani. The level of education of the head of the household and the size of the household have no influence on food and nutritional security.

Keywords: malnutrition, food security, income, poverty