Food safety indicators had been worse within the Eastern area, the place households reported the best proportion of insufficient meals consumption and adoption of both disaster or emergency coping methods. Tobruk stood out on this regard.
Overall, displaced households had been extra meals insecure, with 21 p.c reporting insufficient meals consumption and over 70 p.c adopting both disaster or emergency coping methods to deal with lack of meals or cash to purchase meals 30 days earlier than the survey.
An improve in costs was a major contributor to meals insecurity, with a rise in costs reported from November to December 2020 attributable to an elevated price within the importation of commodities.
Over 70 p.c of ladies aged 15 to 49 years previous consumed Minimum Dietary Diversity, whereas Tobruk reported the bottom proportion of ladies attaining Minimum Dietary Diversity. The girls largely consumed staples, dairy and meat merchandise.
The majority of youngsters surveyed aged 6 to 23 months didn’t eat a Minimum Acceptable Diet.
Children primarily consumed staples and milk. No kids in Murzuq consumed a Minimum Acceptable Diet.
Children in Murzuq, Nalut, Tobruk, and Tripoli ate on common one meal a day.
No households reported challenges in accessing meals markets resulting from COVID-19 in comparison with May 2020.
There was a discount in social distancing reported.
Poor labour market circumstances had been noticed, as a 3rd of the respondents reported not working in any respect. Of those who did, their employment was largely not full-time. These poor labour market circumstances are doubtless partially resulting from COVID-19 restrictions.
