Detrminants of Household Food Security among Southwest Ethiopia Rural Households

Muche, Mequanent; Endalew, Birara; Koricho, Tesfalem

doi:10.3923/ajar.2014.248.258

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“…Government plays a crucial role in determining a country’s nutrition and food security situation through public spending on agriculture, tackling hunger and alleviating poverty (Cuesta, Edmeades, & Madrigal, 2013; Magana‐Lemus et al, 2016; Muche et al, 2014; Zakari, Ying, & Song, 2014). Countries with a low public agricultural expenditure per worker are found to have higher incidence of hunger (FAO, 2012, p. 6).…”

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“…Extant literature has analyzed the role played in determining food security by household factors such as farm size (Aidoo, Mensah, & Tuffour, 2013; Muche, Endalew, & Koricho, 2014), access to credit (Gebre, 2012), income (Matchaya & Chilonda, 2012), and education of the household head (Magana‐Lemus, Ishdorj, Rosson, & Lara‐Álvarez, 2016). Smith, Rabbitt, and Coleman‐Jensen (2017) report low levels of education, weak social networks, less social capital, low household income, and unemployment to be the five characteristics associated with the largest increase in the likelihood of experiencing food insecurity around the world.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cereal production, undernourishment, and food insecurity in South Asia

Mughal¹,

Sers²

2020

Review Development Economics

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South Asia remains one of the major strongholds of hunger in the world, despite the fact that, following the Green Revolution, cereal production in the countries of this region tripled during the second half of the 20th century. This study examines the role played by this increase in cereal production in improving the region's nutrition and food security situation. We study the association between the different aspects of food security and cereal production in South Asia that have prevailed over the past 25 years. We find a beneficial role of the production and yield of cereals in lowering the extent of undernourishment. A 1% increase in cereal production and yield is associated with up to 0.84% decrease in the prevalence of undernourishment. The impact is significant over a period of 3 years. The positive effect is particularly evident in the case of rice and maize production. An improvement is seen in the aspects of availability, stability, and utilization of food security but not in the aspect of access. These findings are robust to alternative specifications and techniques. The results explain, in part, the means by which South Asian nations have managed to stall relative increases in extreme hunger and food insecurity.

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Cereal production, undernourishment, and food insecurity in South Asia

Mughal¹,

Sers²

2020

Review Development Economics

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“…Hence, in this study, age was expected to affect households' food security negatively. Moreover, empirical studies [37] [38] argued that larger family size exerts more pressure on households' consumption than the labor it contributes to production. Therefore, in this study, it was expected to affect food security negatively.…”

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Analysis of Rural Households Food Security in Western Ethiopia

Sani¹,

Kemaw²

2019

FNS

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This study analyzed rural households' food security and its determinants in western Ethiopia. The study used a primary data collected from 276 randomly selected households using interview schedule. In addition, focus group discussion (FGD) and key informants interview were also used to obtain a qualitative primary data. As to the method of data analysis, the study employed descriptive statistics (such as mean, frequency, range and percentage) and binary logit model (BLM). The finding of the study revealed that, in the study area, 59.06% of the sampled households were food insecure and 40.94% of them were food secure. Besides, the study indicated that 86.87% of the households were vulnerable to different shocks, risks, and seasonality's and 41.67% of the households faced shortage of food. Moreover, the finding indicated that only 31.88% of the households were food self-sufficient from own production. Low productivity, climate related problems and inadequacy of cultivable land were identified as the top three main causes of food shortage and/or food self-insufficiency from own production. The estimated BLM pointed out that sex, age, access to irrigation, off-farm and non-farm income, input cost, access to credit and distance to market were significant in determining household's food security status. Therefore, policies and actions directed towards improving households' food security and reducing their vulnerability should focus on the aforementioned factors.

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“…The sample size was calculated using the prevalence of food insecurity in the Mana wereda of the Jimma zone (42%), a design effect of 2 and a margin of error of 0.05 [22]. A sample size of 749 was estimated to have a power of 80, calculated using Epi info Version 7 open source sample size calculator.…”

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confidence: 99%