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4. Discussion on Context<br />

4.1 Food Security Situation<br />

The Woreda is well known for its rich alluvial gold deposits and mining (traditional as<br />

well as commercial) attracts a number of fortune seekers (including other service<br />

providers) from neighbouring districts and regions. Therefore, the majority of the<br />

population appear to be unstable and ever moving looking for new and promising<br />

sites for mining and those who do not mine move with the miners to provide the<br />

necessary services like catering, provision of gold-washing water (that is very<br />

scarce), equipment, etc.<br />

Mining itself requires a lot of soil moisture and a great volume of water for washing<br />

the clay off the gold powder. The current drought, therefore, affects not only<br />

agriculture and livestock but mining and the forestry too.<br />

The attractive forestry and the wildlife are also in great threats in these non-restricted<br />

movements and clearing of forests.<br />

The local subsistence farmers also spend a great deal of their time in this very<br />

tedious endeavour. In this context, the lucky ones who get some grams of gold would<br />

flourish whilst those who do not get turn to their homestead. The worst happens<br />

when the backyard crop fails and the cattle starve to death due to drought like that is<br />

in-place now.<br />

4.2 Malnutrition Level and Related Stresses<br />

Odo Shakiso Woreda has recorded one of the highest levels of PEM when compared<br />

with some national and such pocket surveys. The comparative results of some of<br />

these nutritional surveys are summarised in Appendix I.<br />

The 1983 and 1992 national surveys found 8.1% and 8.0% of wasting, respectively.<br />

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