A sub-national hunger index for Ethiopia: Assessing progress in region-level outcomes

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen_US
cg.coverage.countryEthiopiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.creator.identifierPaul Dorosh: 0000-0001-6049-6018en_US
cg.creator.identifierEmily Schmidt: 0000-0003-0109-7687en_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Ethiopia Strategy Support Programen_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Divisionen_US
cg.number5en_US
cg.placeAddis Ababa, Ethiopiaen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
dc.contributor.authorSchmidt, Emilyen_US
dc.contributor.authorDorosh, Paul A.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-21T10:00:51Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-11-21T10:00:51Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/162055en_US
dc.titleA sub-national hunger index for Ethiopia: Assessing progress in region-level outcomesen_US
dcterms.abstractAccess to sufficient food and nutrients is essential for household welfare, as well as for accomplishing other development objectives. Households with insufficient access to food often face other challenges related to food insecurity including poor health and declines in productivity. In order to better target food aid assistance, evaluate progress, and design efficient intervention strategies, a transparent and reliable database on food insecurity is necessary. With the goal of providing a more straight-forward and standardized approach for calculating food insecurity, IFPRI developed a Global Hunger Index (GHI) in 2006 that allowed for easy comparison across countries. Recognizing the various dimensions of food insecurity, the GHI equally weights the proportion of people who are food energy deficient, the prevalence of underweight children under the age of five, and the mortality rate among children less than five years of age. Because national averages can mask important regional differences, we calculate a Sub-National Hunger Index for Ethiopia using data from 1999-2000 and 2004-05 (the latter year being the latest for which nationally representative household surveys are available). Our findings indicate that between 1999-2000 and 2004-05, there were substantial improvements in all components of the Hunger Index in all analyzed administrative regions of Ethiopia. There were also major improvements in both urban and rural areas, with a decline in the index from 47.6 to 29.9 in small urban areas (areas defined urban in the household survey with exception to Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa, and Harari) and from 43.6 to 32.6 in rural areas. Given rapid agriculture-led economic growth between 2004-05 and 2008-09, it is expected that when new household survey data is available, these indices will show continued improvement.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationSchmidt, Emily; Dorosh, Paul A. 2009. A sub-national hunger index for Ethiopia. ESSP II Discussion Paper 5. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162055en_US
dcterms.extent29 p.en_US
dcterms.isPartOfESSP II Discussion Paperen_US
dcterms.issued2009en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.publisherEthiopian Development Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/130939en_US
dcterms.subjectagricultureen_US
dcterms.subjectmalnutritionen_US
dcterms.subjectfood insecurityen_US
dcterms.subjecthealthen_US
dcterms.subjectfood aiden_US
dcterms.subjectdevelopment policiesen_US
dcterms.subjectsocial safety netsen_US
dcterms.typeWorking Paperen_US

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