Determinants of food insecurity in food aid receiving communities in Ethiopia
This study analyzed households' food security and its determinants along with the coping mechanisms opted against food insecurity while assessing the food security interventions in southern Ethiopia. Combination of emergency and project food aids are the two major intervention strategies enforc...
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| description | This study analyzed households' food security and its determinants along with the coping mechanisms opted against food insecurity while assessing the food security interventions in southern Ethiopia. Combination of emergency and project food aids are the two major intervention strategies enforced to alleviate food insecurity in the area. The results from descriptive statistics show that 74.17% of the surveyed households were food insecure. The logit model result revealed that sex, age, education level of household head, family size and access to remittance were significant factors that affect the status of household's food security. Finally, empowering women, fair aid targeting on older households, strengthening formal and informal education, awareness creation on effective family planning and reducing the dependency syndrome and encouraging entrepreneurship were identified to factors that potentially improve food security on the households. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6adc48ebdbca4127bfeeadef90e084ac2022-12-22T04:22:53ZengElsevierJournal of Agriculture and Food Research2666-15432022-12-0110100391Determinants of food insecurity in food aid receiving communities in EthiopiaSeble Tigistu0Banchamlak Hegena1Department of Agribusiness and Value Chain Management, College of Agriculture and Natural Resource, Wolkite University, Wolkite, Ethiopia; Corresponding author.Department of Agribusiness and Value Chain Management, College of Agriculture and Natural Resource, Wolkite University, Wolkite, EthiopiaThis study analyzed households' food security and its determinants along with the coping mechanisms opted against food insecurity while assessing the food security interventions in southern Ethiopia. Combination of emergency and project food aids are the two major intervention strategies enforced to alleviate food insecurity in the area. The results from descriptive statistics show that 74.17% of the surveyed households were food insecure. The logit model result revealed that sex, age, education level of household head, family size and access to remittance were significant factors that affect the status of household's food security. Finally, empowering women, fair aid targeting on older households, strengthening formal and informal education, awareness creation on effective family planning and reducing the dependency syndrome and encouraging entrepreneurship were identified to factors that potentially improve food security on the households.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666154322001247Coping mechanismsFood aidFood securityLogit modelGuraghe zoneEthiopia |
| spellingShingle | Seble Tigistu Banchamlak Hegena Determinants of food insecurity in food aid receiving communities in Ethiopia Journal of Agriculture and Food Research Coping mechanisms Food aid Food security Logit model Guraghe zone Ethiopia |
| title | Determinants of food insecurity in food aid receiving communities in Ethiopia |
| title_full | Determinants of food insecurity in food aid receiving communities in Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Determinants of food insecurity in food aid receiving communities in Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Determinants of food insecurity in food aid receiving communities in Ethiopia |
| title_short | Determinants of food insecurity in food aid receiving communities in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | determinants of food insecurity in food aid receiving communities in ethiopia |
| topic | Coping mechanisms Food aid Food security Logit model Guraghe zone Ethiopia |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666154322001247 |
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