Determinants of Food Security among Rural Households of Central Ethiopia: An Empirical Analysis

Beyene, Fekadu; Muche, Mequanent

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“…The results show that mothers' and children's dietary variety patterns are significantly impacted by land ownership, with a positive coefficient. According to Beyene and Muche (2010); Mallick and Rafi (2010); Mbwana, Kinabo, Lambert, and Biesalski (2016) the findings of rural areas' land holdings are similar. Landholding is considered a vital factor in determining children's and women's dietary diversity scores.…”

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Factors Affecting the Dietary Diversity Pattern of Women and Children in Rural Areas of Southern Punjab: A Case of District Vehari

Sajjad¹,

Mansha²,

Sarwar³

et al. 2022

iRASD J. Eco.

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The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that affect rural mothers' and children's dietary diversity patterns in Southern Punjab, district Vehari. Children and Women Dietary Diversity Pattern (CDDP & WDDP) illustrate how economically capable women and children are to acquire a wide range of foods. CDDP & WDDP are multi-dimensional. Various socioeconomic factors can affect CDDP & WDDP. The Primary data has been collected from 300 children and 300 women from rural areas. A detailed questionnaire was created to gather information from the respondents following the FAO's recommendations. The data analysis method employed was ordered logistic regression. The findings of this study suggest that children in rural regions’ estimated coefficients of child’s age, mother’s age, maternal education, the income of the household, land, area, and livestock do a have positive impact on children's dietary diversity scores and statistically signify.

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Factors Affecting the Dietary Diversity Pattern of Women and Children in Rural Areas of Southern Punjab: A Case of District Vehari

Sajjad¹,

Mansha²,

Sarwar³

et al. 2022

iRASD J. Eco.

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“…Household size refers to the total number of family members who live and eat in the same house for at least 6 months (Muche et al, 2014). According to Mequanent (2009) and Beyene and Muche (2010), household size or family size is an important factor that affects the state of household food security and, in most cases, has a negative impact on household food security. The influence of household size varies depending on the type of household and the density of the household size.…”

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Effect of market participation on the food and nutrition security status of the rural smallholder farmers: the case of Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces, South Africa

Hlatshwayo,

Ojo,

Ngidi

2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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IntroductionHunger and malnutrition remain serious issues in developing countries, particularly in rural regions. Increased market participation of smallholder farmers can result in improved livelihood and nutrition outcomes. However, smallholder farmers encounter several obstacles that hinder their ability to participate in the market. As a result, the objective of this study is to investigate the factors that influence market participation and its impact on household nutrition security.MethodsThe study relied on secondary data gathered from a sample size of 1,520 people. About 389 of smallholder farmers participated in the market.Results and DiscussionThe results from Food Consumption Score (FSC) cut-off points showed that in the overall sample households, 54% were within the acceptable food consumption diets (>35), while 30 and 16% were in the borderline (21.5–35) and poor diets (0–21), respectively. According to the Household Dietary Diversity Score (HDDS) findings, 57% of smallholder farmers in the total population sample consumed highly diverse diets (consisting of at least six food groups), while 25 and 18% of smallholder farmers consumed diets with medium dietary diversity (consisting of 4–5 food groups) and low dietary diversity (consisting of at most three food groups), respectively. The results from marginal analysis showed that gender of household head, receiving social grants and higher wealth index had a positive impact on market participation. The results from Poisson endogenous treatment effect model showed that household size, ownership of livestock, social grant, wealth index, access to market information, and involvement in crop production had a positive and statistically significant impact on household nutrition security. On the other hand, agricultural assistance showed a negative and significant impact on household nutrition security.Conclusion and RecommendationsIt can be concluded that an improvement in agricultural assistance can improve the household nutrition security status. The improvement of agricultural assistance is more associated with improvement of extension services, which can lead to more production of diverse crops and more market participation. Health extension workers need to do more nutrition programs and workshops in rural areas. These programs and workshops will be intended on providing nutrition education, which will create awareness to smallholder farmers on diverse and balanced food items they should produce, sell, and consume.

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“…Following the Agricultural Development Led Industrialization policy of the 2000s, cultivated land expanded mainly due to increased demand for food, which is one of the major factors that contributed to the reduction of natural vegetation cover, where more areas between 2000 and 2020 were used to cultivate irrigated and rainfed crops (Zewdie, 2015;Dube et al, 2019). Agricultural land expansion and population growth have put pressure on the natural environment and have significantly reduced forestland, shrubland, and grassland coverage in the upper Awash basin over the last two decades (Beyene and Muche, 2010;Tefera, 2010). This encouraged farmers to boost food production in a very stressed basin, leading to more investment in agricultural inputs, such as land, fertilizers, pesticides, seeds, agricultural machinery, laborers, wages, and a skilled The actual and predicted LULC maps of 2020 of the upper Awash basin.…”

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Urban sprawl at the expense of cultivated land: decadal land use and land cover changes and future projections in the upper Awash basin of central Ethiopia

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IntroductionUrban sprawl in developing countries affects future sustainability concerns related to environment, ecology and cropland losses. This study aimed at identifying, classifying and quantifying the changes in land-use and land-cover (LULC) during the last two decades (2000–2020) and predict the decadal pattern for the next three decades (2030–2050), with particular emphasis on urban sprawl at the expense of cultivated land in the upper Awash basin of central Ethiopia.MethodsLandsat images were used to analyze the LULC change dynamics using hybrid image classification and maximum likelihood classifier techniques. The Cellular Automata-Markov Chain (CAMC) Model was used to predict its future LULC change dynamics. A detailed analysis of the urban sprawl in the cities of Addis Ababa, Adama, and Mojo was also conducted.ResultsIt was observed that during the last two decades, settlements, particularly urban sprawls, substantially expanded at the expense of cultivated land, whereas the latter modestly expanded at the expense of forestland, bare land, and shrubland. From its size in 2000, the urban sprawl of Addis Ababa has grown in all directions towards cultivated land by more than six times in 2020 and is expected to become double of that by 2050 in the urban and peri-urban areas of the basin. Adama city has expanded by the same rate of 9.7% in the past two decades, while Mojo town has sprawled 9 folds between 2010 and 2020. The predicted percentage change in settlement for Addis Ababa and its neighboring districts within 22 km radius from the centroid shows a 40% expansion in 2030, 77% in 2040, and 87% in 2050 compared with the reference year 2020. Similarly, the Mojo town will expand significantly in 2030 (54%), 2040 (119%), and 2050 (by a staggering magnitude of 244%), while Adama will expand within the 12 km radius by 18%, 42%, and 117% in the next three respective decades.DiscussionThe rapid cultivated land conversions in the basin may contribute to major shifts in urban and peri-urban ecological environments. Our predictive LULC change maps and urban sprawling could be useful for developing effective and sustainable land-use policies for environmental and ecological management in the upper Awash basin.

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Determinants of Food Security among Rural Households of Central Ethiopia: An Empirical Analysis

Cited by 20 publications

References 39 publications

Factors Affecting the Dietary Diversity Pattern of Women and Children in Rural Areas of Southern Punjab: A Case of District Vehari

Factors Affecting the Dietary Diversity Pattern of Women and Children in Rural Areas of Southern Punjab: A Case of District Vehari

Effect of market participation on the food and nutrition security status of the rural smallholder farmers: the case of Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces, South Africa

Urban sprawl at the expense of cultivated land: decadal land use and land cover changes and future projections in the upper Awash basin of central Ethiopia

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