Meatu District Report - Whole Village Project - University of Minnesota

Avg # of days/times hhs ate meat protein in past week 2.37 2.73 1.72 1.72
Avg # of days/times hhs ate legumes in past week 1.49 3.9 3.15 1.32
Avg # of days/times in last week hh ate foods with Vitamin A 0.63 0.94 0.67 0.56
# of different types of food eaten in last week 4.20 5.62 5.07 4.47
Food Security Index 4.35 3.29 3.44 3.47
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, AGRICULTURE AND INCOME
% households own any agricultural land 85.00 80.00 73.33 90.00
Average acres cultivated per household 11.32 11.68 6.74 3.27
Average # of cattle owned per household 45.11 19.38 11.77 41.46
Average # of goats/sheep owned per household 28.48 23.49 18.85 34.35
Average # of chickens owned per household 8.29 7.34 6.18 5.66
% of hhs whose chicken are vaccinated for Newcastle disease 3.57 3.77 1.82 1.79
% of cattle lost to disease in the past 12 months 9% 8% 12% 3%
% of cattle lost to drought in the past 12 months 2% 2% 3% 1%
% of cattle lost to wildlife in the past 12 months 1% 0% 0%% 0%
% of chickens lost to disease in the past 12 months 24% 21% 29% 16%
% of chickens lost to drought in the past 12 months 0% 0% 0% 0%
% of chickens lost to wildlife in the past 12 months 20% 14% 19% 21%
% of goats/sheep lost to disease in the past 12 months 11% 7% 11% 9%
% of goats/sheep lost to drought in the past 12 months 3% 3% 1% 0%%
% of goats/sheep lost to wildlife in the past 12 months 3% 3% 4% 4%
% of household heads with the main occupation of farming 91.53% 96.67% 95.00% 80.00%
% of hh heads with the main occupation of livestock keeping 5.08% 0.00% 0.00% 8.33%
% HHs that report loss of crops due to wildlife 37% 21% 34% 32%
% of HHs that irrigate the plots in village (from focus group data) 0% 0% 0% 0%
% households with bicycle 68.33% 80.00% 76.67% 40.00%
% households with radio 31.67% 36.67% 46.67% 33.33%
% households with cell phone 40.00% 43.33% 33.33% 43.33%
KEY INSTITUTIONS
Distance to major weekly market NA 5 km 10 km NA
# of village committees/groups 3 0 2 0
# of NGOs 4 7 4 7
# of credit, banking services or VICOBA 0 1 1 0
DEMOGRAPHICS
Religion (% Christian; % Muslim; % Traditional) 20% 22% 20% 55%
Dependency Ratio (# of child (0-14 years) and aged (65+) population
per 100 intermediate age (15-64 years)
133.48 138.71 124.21 112.26
Child-Woman Ratio (# of children aged 0-4 years per 1,000 women in
the age group 15-44 years)
0.61 0.55 0.63 0.49
Sex Ratio (# of males per 100 females) 1.03 0.99 1.06 0.88
42 Appendix B – Table of Selected Indicators by Village | Whole Village Project – Iramba
District, October 2010