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Detrminants of Household Food Security among Southwest Ethiopia Rural Households |
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Mequanent Muche,
Birara Endalew and Tesfalem Koricho |
Abstract:
Aim of this study was to analyze determinants of household food security in
Mana woreda of Jimma zone. As a specific objective, this study assessed food
security status, identified determinants of food security and analyzed range
of coping strategies practiced by food insecure households in the study area.
Purposive sampling technique was used to select both Jimma Zone and Mana woreda.
For this study a total of 70 households were selected randomly followed by probability
proportional to sampling technique from two kebeles’.
Both primary and secondary data were collected for this study. Primary data
was collected by direct interview of sample respondents whereas, secondary data
was also collected from published and unpublished documents. Household caloric
acquisition was employed to measure household food security in the study area.
The collected data was analyzed by SPSS version 16.0. Regression model was used
to reveal the effect of different variables on household food security. Accordingly,
42.9 and 57.1% households were found to be food insecure, food secure, respectively.
Out of nine explanatory variables, educational status of household head, family
size, use of farm input and number of oxen owned by households were found to
be significant at less than 10% probability level. Sale of livestock, borrow
grains and cash from relative and reduce size of meal were identified at initial
stage as first, second and third choice whereas, escaping of meal, ate less
preferred food and reduce size of meal were also identified at severe stage
as first, second and third choice in which food insecure households practiced
during food shortage. To improve household food security, the farmer should
use their oxen for cultivation purpose, use family planning and allocate their
income for all expenditure and the woreda education office together with minister
of education should provide adult learning programme to reduce illiteracy.
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How to cite this article:
Mequanent Muche, Birara Endalew and Tesfalem Koricho, 2014. Detrminants of Household Food Security among Southwest Ethiopia Rural Households. Asian Journal of Agricultural Research, 8: 248-258.
DOI: 10.3923/ajar.2014.248.258
URL: https://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=ajar.2014.248.258
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