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    Effects of war on rural household food security case of Hawzien District, Tigray Regional State, Ethiopia
    (Mekelle University, 2025-06-17) Gebremichael Gebretinsae
    Armed civil wars carry various direct and indirect costs that strongly affect households‘ living conditions at the time of the war and for many years thereafter. The war in Tigray affected many household livelihoods. However, to what extent the war affected the household food security was not yet studied. Hence, this research intended to assess the effect of war on household food security at household level in Tigray region. This study was employed simple random sampling to select Hawzien district. For this purpose, 219 sample household were selected form three Tabies of the district randomly. Therefore, data were collected using household survey, focus group discussion and key informant interview. Furthermore, the collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and OLS regression model. The effect of war on household food security was analyzed using OLS regression. Accordingly, the OLS regression model indicates that war severity index (CSI) reveals a strong negative effect food security, with a positive coefficient indicating that increased war intensity leads to significantly higher food insecurity levels. Conversely, food availability decreases with greater war severity, highlighting disruptions in supply chains, agricultural destruction, and community displacement. Despite some improvements in food access and dietary diversity, many households resort to detrimental coping strategies, including selling assets and consuming seed stock, jeopardizing future food security. Therefore, implement immediate food relief programs to address acute food shortages in the most affected households with collaborate of NGOs and international organizations to provide food aid and nutritional support.