Gendered income & food security in Tanzanian pastoralist households

In her MSc thesis, “The relationship of male and female pastoralist income with household food security and nutrition status in Tanzania: Maasai, Sukuma, and Barabaig ethnic groups” (2018, 77pp), Henriette Gitungwa assesses the relationship between income control by pastoralist men and women and the food security and nutritional status of their families. It is based on three surveys: a household-level livestock health and economics survey, a household food security survey, and an individual woman-level survey on diet, nutritional status and health, among 196 Maasai, Sukuma and Barabaig pastoralist households in 2012–13. The results reveal that women’s income has a positive association with dietary diversity but a negative association with household food security, while men’s income has a negative association with household food security and dietary diversity. However, women’s income does not have a statistically significant larger positive correlation with household food security and dietary diversity than does men’s income.

Citation:

Gitungwa, Henriette. 2018. The relationship of male and female pastoralist income with household food security and nutrition status in Tanzania: Maasai, Sukuma, and Barabaig ethnic groups. University of Nebraska. Dissertations and Theses in Agricultural Economics 47. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/agecondiss/47

Posted on 13 March 2019 in Pastoralist Livelihoods & Nutrition