Usman, Abduselam Muse (2011) Diversification of Livelihood Activities as a Strategy to Promote Household Food Security: A Case Study of Daro Lebu Woreda of West Hararghe, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.
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Abstract
Currently diversification of livelihood activities has got special attention in terms of its contribution to household‘s food security. However, in our country little attention has been given to livelihood diversification and the numerous factors that determine the abilities of rural household‘s choice of different livelihood activities. Thus, this particular research was carried out with the aim of generating location specific data regarding the livelihood diversification and its role in attaining household‘s food security. A livelihood frame work has been adopted to see how the relationship between different characteristics of households and their livelihood resources affect the household‘s choice of diversifying livelihood activities which would in turn have a significant impact on household food security. A multi stage sampling procedure was employed to select 120 households of which 25% of them are female headed households. Household survey, case study, key informant interview, focus group discussion and observation were the principal method used to generate data. Descriptive statistics, income portfolio analysis, diversity index, multi-variant regression model and binary logit model was used to analyze quantitative data. The income portfolio analysis revealed that agriculture still plays a pivotal role by contributing 61.7% of the total income of studied households and followed by nonfarm income which accounts for 30% of the total income of sampled households. Similarly the diversity index reveals that there is a difference in participation of nonfarm activity both among the sex and wealth status of households. Male headed households were highly diversifying their livelihood activities than female headed households. Likewise the better off households were more diversify their livelihood activities than poor and medium households. The binary logit model result for determinants of livelihood diversification reveals that, from the 9 explanatory variables used in the model 6 of them were found to be significant to affect the household‘s engagement in diverse livelihood activities. Similarly multi-variant regression model was used to test the main determinants of household food security and the results of the model shows that, out of the 12 explanatory variables used in the model 4 of them are found to be the main determinants of household food security in the study area. In tandem to this, the relationship between the household‘s participation in diverse livelihood activities and their food security situation were analyzed through different statistical techniques and it was found that there is strong positive relationship between livelihood diversification and household food security. Those households who are diversifying their livelihood activities were better in terms of per capita calorie than those who are entirely depend on agriculture
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) |
| Divisions: | Africana |
| Depositing User: | Tim Khabala |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jun 2018 13:22 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Jun 2018 13:22 |
| URI: | http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/4674 |
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