Enhancing Rural Livelihoods Through Sustainable Land and Water Management in Northwest Ethiopia

Belay, Mehretie; Bewket, Woldeamlak

doi:10.24057/2071-9388-2015-8-2-79-100

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“…The livelihood outcomes are achievements of livelihood strategies such as more income, increased wellbeing, increased welfare, reduced vulnerability, improved food security and environmental sustainability (Ellis, 2000;Shahbaz, 2008). (Belay & Bewket, 2015;Bezabih, gebru et al, 2018). Although agriculture remains the main source of income and employment, rural non-farm and off-farm income are gaining importance in most rural areas of Ethiopia (Zerihun and Martin, 2013).…”

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Livelihood Diversification Strategies and Their Contributions to Household Income and Food Security in Rural Areas of Ethiopia

2021

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Agriculture is the major occupation for the majority of rural population in Ethiopia. Although its production and productivity is constrained by backward production technologies, small and fragmented land holdings, irregular/erratic/ rainfall, soil infertility, drought /moisture stress/ and risks associated with climatic variability. In order to cope and recover from the prevailing shocks and stress and support their livelihood, rural households in Ethiopia have engaged in different types of non-farm and/or off-farm income generating activities through combining all or some of their livelihood capitals including physical, human, natural, economic and social endowments. The objectives of this review were to identify type and intensity of livelihood diversification strategies and to assess the contribution of livelihood diversification strategies to household income and food security in rural areas of Ethiopia. This paper mainly depends on reviewing secondary date sources browsed from internet and assessed the type and intensity of livelihood diversification strategies and their contribution to income and food security status of rural households in Ethiopia. This paper also pointed out the existed institutional, social, financial and economic constrains challenges that practitioners have faced for farther policy interventions by governmental and non-governmental organizations.

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Livelihood Diversification Strategies and Their Contributions to Household Income and Food Security in Rural Areas of Ethiopia

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“…Crop cultivation, livestock keeping -for milk, farm power and cash, petty-trading, charcoal and wood selling, participation in daily labour and in off-farm business are among the main livelihood strategies of the people in the district. Growing of potato (Solanum tuberosum), maize (Zea mays) and vegetables using irrigation around the homesteads is a common practice in most villages (see Belay & Bewket, 2013b, 2015Belay et al, 2017).…”

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“…Gebremedhine & Swinton (2003) also described that rigorous constructions of terraces were more in remote villages where off-farm prospects are restricted. In the study at hand, more farmers living nearer to Dangila town were discovered employed in charcoal and firewood making and selling business rather than working on their agricultural fields (see Belay & Bewket, 2013a, 2015Belay et al 2017). Off-farm business has the power to divert farmer interests from farm to non-farm projects.…”

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“…The finding has support from the works of Lapar & Pandey (1999) in the Philippines, Mbaga-Semgalawe & Folmer (2000) in Kenya and Mosseye & Belay (2018) in Ethiopia. During data gathering activities, it was checked that farmers were working in groups on their farmlands (see Belay & Bewket, 2013a, 2015Belay et al, 2017). However, during FGDs and key informant interviews (Figure 2), farmers were complaining that their indigenous labour-sharing experience is disrupting by the recently introduced politically enforced "one-into-five" 2 farmer arrangement.…”

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Appraisal of Issues Influencing Soil-Steps Application for Sustainable Farmland Management in High-Potential District, Ethiopia

Belay

2018

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Soil damage by moving water is a somber predicament on farmlands in highland Ethiopia. Sizeable number of trial in farmland preservation has been executed to handle the crisis during the last tens of years. However, the attempts have not been vibrant to trim-down the danger to an attractive extent. This paper evaluates factors contributing to application of soil-steps (bunds) as sustainable farmland management technology (SFLMT) by smallholder farmers in one of the high-potential districts of northwest Ethiopia named Dangila Woreda (District). Mixed method triangulation designs involving concurrent acquisition and interpretation of quantitative and qualitative data were used in the study. Data were acquired from randomly chosen 201 farming households during the harvest seasons of 2011 and 2012. Ordered questionnaire, participatory field observation, key informant interview and focus group discussion were mechanisms employed during the data acquisition. Descriptive statistics (means, standard deviations and percentiles), Chi-square test, t-test and the binary logistic regression model were used to analyze the quantitative data. The qualitative information was textually narrated to augment the quantitative results. Findings of the investigation confirm that age of the household head, the number of household members, slope of the farmland, the size of the farmland held, households’ participation in indigenous labour-sharing activities and the number of farm tools owned were significantly increasing the building of soil-steps as SFLMT in the study district. Involvement in off-farm activities and pest invasions were considerably hindering farmers from building soil-steps on their farmlands. The results in general indicated that households’ access to livelihood assets are key promoters for farmers’ implementation of soil-steps on their farmlands. Local resource preservation and improvement trials should thus ponder on convalescing farmers’ material endowments to improve their capability to use soil-steps as SFLMT in their farming activities.

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“…Due to high risks associated with the agricultural sector -such as drought and climate change -and poverty occurrences, poorer rural households with constraints of critical assets will be forced to engage in alternative incomes by participating in low-yield and sometimes risky non-farm activities (Reardon et al, 2007;Loison, 2015;Makita, 2016;Martin and Lorenzen, 2016). A study conducted in Ethiopia by Belay and Bewket (2015) notes that the complex inter-linkages of poverty, population growth and environmental degradation cause a decline in farm plot sizes leading to landlessness and expansion of farming to marginal lands. As a result, rural households are forced to engage in a number of livelihood strategies to mitigate the risk of poverty and malnutrition.…”

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Determinants of rural on-farm livelihoods diversification: the case of Intsika Yethu Local Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa

Tyenjana

Taruvinga

2019

J. Agribus. Rural Dev.

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The purpose of this paper was to identify the factors influencing households to diversify rural on-farm livelihood activities in Intsika Yethu Local Municipality. This is against a background where literature suggests low livelihoods diversification among rural households despite several claimed benefits of diversification. Cross-sectional survey data was randomly collected for this study in October 2018 from 190 rural households in Intsika Yethu Local Municipality. A structured questionnaire was used for that purpose. Ordered logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the data. The results showed that diversification of on-farm livelihood activities was influenced by the gender of household head, education level of household head, household size, and number of livestock units owned. To promote on-farm livelihoods diversification in rural areas, the paper suggests targeting gender differential, informal education and awareness, labor dynamics associated with on-farm livelihood activities and household livestock units.

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Enhancing Rural Livelihoods Through Sustainable Land and Water Management in Northwest Ethiopia

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Livelihood Diversification Strategies and Their Contributions to Household Income and Food Security in Rural Areas of Ethiopia

Livelihood Diversification Strategies and Their Contributions to Household Income and Food Security in Rural Areas of Ethiopia

Appraisal of Issues Influencing Soil-Steps Application for Sustainable Farmland Management in High-Potential District, Ethiopia

Determinants of rural on-farm livelihoods diversification: the case of Intsika Yethu Local Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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