Role of Socio Economic Factors and Perception towards Agriculture, for Food in-security: A study of KelafoWoreda of Somali State of Ethiopia.

Girmay, Mr.Abraha; Reddy, Ravindra; Dube, DharmendraKumar

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“…In Ethiopia, the majority of farm families are recurrently prone to food crisis aggravated by the impacts of climate relatedshocks, rain-fed and small-scale agricultural production (Cornia and Martorano, 2016). Such a situation results in widespread of undernutrition particularly in rural areas where 52% of people are food insecure (FAO, 2012a;Girmay et al, 2016;Sibhatu and Qaim, 2017); this force farm families to seek extra labor usually unskilled nonagricultural employment as a coping mechanism for weather shocks during the off-season. These vulnerable farm families develop "distress-push" or "defensive" survival strategies.…”

Section: First-stage Results Of Determinants Of Participation In Non-farm Activities and Marginal Effectsmentioning

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Determinants of participation in non-farm activities and its effect on household income: An empirical study in Ethiopia

Neglo¹,

Gebrekidan²,

Lyu³

2021

J. Dev. Agric. Econ.

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Undertaking non-agrarian income-generating activities to reduce overreliance on agriculture, production failures, and income fluctuations is a household-amenable, self-insurance mechanism, which provides employment opportunities and capital investment. This article examines the determinants of participation in non-farm activities and effect on household income. Heckman two-step procedure was used to analyze a three-wave survey data set captured from 3866 households. Crop failures, insufficient intake of food, household consumption expenditure, gender, family size, literacy, health status, farm animals holding, access to credit, total hired labor, cooperative membership and agricultural extension services were factors influencing household involvement in non-farm work. Furthermore, the findings establish that there is a decline in the likelihood of households headed by aged people, who tend to rely on subsistence farming to engage in alternative non-agrarian activities. The results of the analyses support the non-separability hypothesis of non-farm activities and household income; this implies that engaging in non-agricultural activities has a direct positive effect on household income. The omnipresence of non-agrarian income generating activities in agroecoregions requires inclusive rural development policies that focus beyond agriculture based on the recognition of the rural economic heterogeneity.

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Section: First-stage Results Of Determinants Of Participation In Non-farm Activities and Marginal Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of participation in non-farm activities and its effect on household income: An empirical study in Ethiopia

Neglo¹,

Gebrekidan²,

Lyu³

2021

J. Dev. Agric. Econ.

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Role of Socio Economic Factors and Perception towards Agriculture, for Food in-security: A study of KelafoWoreda of Somali State of Ethiopia.

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Determinants of participation in non-farm activities and its effect on household income: An empirical study in Ethiopia

Determinants of participation in non-farm activities and its effect on household income: An empirical study in Ethiopia

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