Having measures of vulnerability in the future allowed the projection of households who will be never food
insecure, transitory food insecure, and chronically food insecure. Consistent findings drawn from
projections convey that chronically food insecure households tend to have younger and less educated heads.
They also have the biggest family or household size. In addition, these households also are less likely to
have strong house, and less access to assets (including agricultural assets) and information. Also, they can
be found most likely in the rural areas and relatively more dependent on crop farming income. These
measures and findings open for a more incisive targeting in order to arrest food insecurity efficiently and
these were demonstrated in the maps.
Aside from the characteristics at the household level, the models suggest some policy options to be adopted
as counter measure in case of rise in vulnerability. These include: enhancing human capital in terms of
education; increasing government expenditure on agriculture in terms of farm to market road, irrigation of
palay or subsidy on fertilizer; and increasing household or family access to assets including agricultural
assets.
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