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- Food insecurity and household coping strategies in Bahi District: A case of Bahi, Nagulo and Uhelela Villages in Bahi Ward(St John's University of Tanzania, 2015-07-28) Barnaba, MsangwaThis study sought to investigate household food insecurity and coping strategies among households in Bahi, Nagulo and Uhelela at Bahi ward in Bahi district. Specifically, the study aimed to: Examine the relationship between food insecurity and socio-economic characteristics of household in the study area, examine factors influencing food insecurity among households in the study area and to identify coping strategies adopted by households to mitigate food insecurity in the study area. A total of 110 respondents were sampled from the total population of 18293 from 4066 households in the ward. Data were collected by the use of structured questionnaire, focus group discussion and key informant interview guide. Data analysis was done by using SPSS - computer software program. Frequency tables, pie charts, and bar graphs were used to present the findings of the study. The study found that almost all households (96.9%) in the study area are food insecure except (3.1%) of the households. The study revealed that Reasons for food insecurity are mainly low rainfall (drought) shortage of land and poor production. People are applying several coping strategies such as; reducing number of meals from three to two and less than two, this was the main strategy to coup with food insecurity, others are; selling of livestock, migrating to other places, borrowing food from friends or relatives and doing causal laboring and small business. The study recommends that the government through the ministry of water and irrigation should modify and implement the present irrigation policies in all semi-arid areas (dry lands) in the country to ensure sustainable crop production as one of the measure to alleviate household food insecurity.