Uganda December 2010 Food Security and Livelihoods Assessment Lango Sub-region Northern Uganda ACF USA, Food Security and Livelihoods Assessment, Dec 2010 Uganda TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive summary ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 1. Background ......................................................................................................................................................... 11 1.1. Purpose of the survey ................................................................................................................................ 11 1.2. Methods of the survey ............................................................................................................................... 12 2. Findings of the survey ......................................................................................................................................... 13 2.1. Demographic information .......................................................................................................................... 13 2.2. Household Dietary diversity and food sources .......................................................................................... 19 2.3. Household expenditures ............................................................................................................................ 25 2.4. Income sources and household assets ....................................................................................................... 26 2.5. Crop production ......................................................................................................................................... 31 2.6. Land access and utilization ......................................................................................................................... 36 2.7. Animal production ..................................................................................................................................... 37 2.8. Credits and savings ..................................................................................................................................... 40 2.9. Trainings ..................................................................................................................................................... 42 2.10. Social networks .......................................................................................................................................... 43 2.11. Access to basic services and markets ......................................................................................................... 44 3. Analysis ............................................................................................................................................................... 45 3.1. Vulnerability profile by geographic area .................................................................................................... 45 3.2. Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................. 57 4. Recommendations .............................................................................................................................................. 59 ACF USA, Food Security and Livelihoods Assessment, Dec 2010 Uganda 1 Tables Table 1: Overview of villages surveyed per district ..................................................................................................... 12 Table 2: Residential status of interviewed .................................................................................................................. 13 Table 3: Relationship of interviewee to head of household (HHH) ............................................................................. 13 Table 4: Age groups and gender of respondents ......................................................................................................... 14 Table 5: Highest education level of household heads total ......................................................................................... 14 Table 6: Highest education level of household heads per districts and gender .......................................................... 15 Table 7: Household composition for gender and contributors to HH income ............................................................ 15 Table 8: Health status of household heads ................................................................................................................. 17 Table 9: Diseases of children 6‐59 months .................................................................................................................. 17 Table 10: Reasons for not being satisfied with security .............................................................................................. 19 Table 11: Effects of perceived insecurity ..................................................................................................................... 19 Table 12: Frequency of meals eaten ............................................................................................................................ 20 Table 13: Household dietary diversity score HDDS ..................................................................................................... 21 Table 14: Overview of income earned from various activities in % ............................................................................ 28 Table 15: Assets owned ............................................................................................................................................... 31 Table 16: Seed sources ................................................................................................................................................ 33 Table 17: Second harvest and utilization in Otuke 2010 ............................................................................................. 34 Table 18: Second harvest and utilization in Lira 2010 ................................................................................................. 34 Table 19: Percent of households with products until Jan and Apr 2011 ..................................................................... 35 Table 20: Land ownership and land under cultivation ................................................................................................ 36 Table 21: Reasons given for not opening more land ................................................................................................... 36 Table 22: Ranking of challenges in crop production .................................................................................................... 37 Table 23: Types of animals owned .............................................................................................................................. 38 Table 24: Milk production and consumption per Sub‐county ..................................................................................... 39 Table 25: Animals sold over the past three months .................................................................................................... 39 ACF USA, Food Security and Livelihoods Assessment, Dec 2010 Uganda 2 Table 26: Access to veterinary services ....................................................................................................................... 40 Table 27: Ranking of challenges affecting livestock production .................................................................................. 40 Table 28: Sources of credit .......................................................................................................................................... 41 Table 29: Types of credit ............................................................................................................................................. 42 Table 30: Savings ......................................................................................................................................................... 42 Table 31: Trainings and training topics ........................................................................................................................ 43 Table 32: Other training topics .................................................................................................................................... 43 Table 33: Types of associations and membership ....................................................................................................... 44 Table 34: Distance and level of access to socio‐economic services ............................................................................ 44 Table 35: Income and dietary diversity per category of head of household ............................................................... 46 Table 36: Productive assets owned by female and elderly HHH ................................................................................. 47 Table 37: Correlating income groups, livestock and income from crop production ................................................... 50 Table 38: Correlating income groups and dietary diversity ......................................................................................... 50 Table 39: Comparing livestock owners, average income and dietary diversity........................................................... 52 Table 40: Income of households with traction