Table 1 Household food insecurity access scale categories
From: Factors associated with food security among small-holder farming households in Lesotho
Area | Frequency (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | Food secure | Mildly food insecure | Moderately food insecure | Severely food insecure | |
Berea | 68 | 42.6 | 19.1 | 36.7 | 1.4 |
Mafeteng | 77 | 32.4 | 28.5 | 31.1 | 7.7 |
Quthing | 38 | 36.8 | 15.7 | 31.5 | 15.7 |
Thaba Tseka | 53 | 49.0 | 3.7 | 26.4 | 20.7 |
Type of farming (%) | |||||
 Subsistence farming | 55 | 30.9 | 12.7 | 29.0 | 27.2 |
 Commercial farming | 181 | 42.5 | 19.8 | 32.5 | 4.9 |