Table 4 Food insecurity related conditions (%) by main activity of respondents four weeks before the interview
From: Household food security among Hadza hunter-gatherers in Mkalama district, Tanzania
Condition | Household main activity | p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Foraging (n = 129) | Beekeeping (n = 30) | Farming (n = 41) | ||
Worried about food | 73.6 | 32.3 | 17.5 | 0.000 |
Unable to eat preferred foods | 59.7 | 71.0 | 62.5 | 0.508 |
Ate a few variety of foods | 89.1 | 64.5 | 57.5 | 0.000 |
Ate food they do not want to eat | 61.2 | 67.7 | 60.0 | 0.766 |
Ate smaller meal | 72.9 | 32.3 | 17.5 | 0.000 |
Ate fewer meals in a day | 43.4 | 19.4 | 12.5 | 0.000 |
No food of any kind in the household | 29.5 | 12.9 | 7.5 | 0.006 |
Went to sleep hungry | 17.8 | 9.7 | 0.0 | 0.011 |
Went day and night without eating | 5.4 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 0.301 |
Food insecure households | 83.0 | 46.7 | 26.8 | 0.000 |