Table 2 Market access and food source characteristics (N = 600)
From: Livelihood training, food production, and food security among vulnerable communities in Bangladesh
Characteristics | N (%) |
|---|---|
Ease of market access | Â |
 Easy | 549 (83.2) |
 Difficult | 111 (16.8) |
Food source | Â |
 Own production | 635 (96.2) |
 Cash purchase with household income | 652 (98.8) |
 Purchase with cash transfer | 297 (45.0) |
 Food aid | 80 (12.1) |
 Casual labor for food | 61 (9.2) |
 Remittances/other | 17 (2.6) |
Number of food sources | Â |
 1–2 | 310 (47.0) |
 3 | 287 (43.5) |
  ≥ 4 | 63 (9.6) |
Livelihood activity | N (%) |
 Farming | 580 (87.9) |
 Livestock production | 632 (95.8) |
 Wage labor (agriculture) | 171 (25.9) |
 Wage labor (non-agriculture) | 487 (73.8) |
 Self-employment (agriculture) | 88 (13.3) |
 Other skilled self-employment | 97 (14.7) |
 Salaried/Professional job | 65 (9.9) |
 Driver/rickshaw puller | 75 (11.4) |
 Cash/Food for work | 564 (85.5) |
 Government/NGO assistance | 375 (56.8) |
Farm or animal husbandry activity | N (%) |
 Purchase inputs | 421 (63.8) |
 Use of financial services (Mobile and Non-Mobile) | 89 (13.5) |
 Use of training and extension services | 559 (84.7) |
 Contract farming | 26 (3.9) |
 Use of feed lots or pen feeding | 62 (9.4) |
 Drying produce | 111 (16.8) |
 Processing produce | 307 (46.5) |
 Trading/marketing produce or livestock | 490 (74.2) |