Food Insecurity Problem

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STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Food insecurity is inability and difficulty to access to nutritious and adequate food at all times for all peoples. It leads to peopleto hunger and malnutrition.Hungeris the inability to eat enough food and leads to malnutrition. Malnutrition is the lack of necessary nutrients in the diet. These conditions hinder the community to be productive and healthy to perform different development activities. If it is not alleviated and sustain over a period of time it creates a vicious circle of destitution and being a problem of sustainable development. The major reason for food insecurity is the low level of livelihood resiliency due to lower asset accumulation(IFAD rural Poverty in Ethiopia).
According to World Bank (2014) one person from nine people in the world is in hunger and about 870 million peoples are below the poverty …show more content…

From total populations of 40,879 beneficiaries; the total numbers of graduate beneficiaries in all three phases are 18,774 (46%).
The main challenges beside this should be studied in such a way that whether PSNP haven’t an impact on the food security improvement and/or what are factors which hinder it.No more studies were conducted even in East Gojjam and particularly in Enebse.
Studies conducted by different scholars are summarized as the impacts of the PSNP on livestock and tree holding, HH resilience, asset accumulation, sustainable land management, food security improvement, reducing vulnerability, HH welfare and labor supply. Even though those studies were conducted beyond the study area, there is debate between them. Some scholars conclude that the PSNP impact on asset sustaining and accumulation wasn’t significant rather it covers the hungry gap. Besides this others study result shows that PSNP plays a great role in preventing depletion of livestock assets, increasing household income and reducing poverty by enhancing asset

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