Assessment of factors affecting food insecurity in Shashogo woreda selected kebeles among rural farm households
| dc.contributor.advisor | Fanta, Mandafro (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Deribe, Debero | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-21T15:40:59Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T10:19:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-11-21T15:40:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T10:19:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-06 | |
| dc.description | A thesis submitted to the Department of Public Administration and Development Management of Addis Ababa University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Masters in Public Management and Policy (MPMP) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The basic objective of the study was to assess and describe factors affecting food insecurity in the study area. To achieve the study objective, the study employed descriptive type of research design to show the opinion of the kebeles development agents and executives and household heads to identify the factors causing food insecurity in the study area. To accomplish this, the researcher used qualitative approaches with the light touch base on qualitative approach. The study used both primary and secondary source of information. Primary information was collected mainly from the selected 110 household heads through structured and semi-structured interviews. In addition to that, the researcher conducted focus group discussions with kebeles development agents and executives that consisted of 9 members. A total of 119 respondents and key informants were selected for both interview and focus group discussions by purposively sampling technique. The data collected from both interview and focus group were analyzed descriptively by using tables, figures, frequency and percentage of the responses to present different primary data in an organized way. In addition, the focus group discussion results were presented by summarizing the essence of the discussion and narrating the result in the text along with interview results. The study found that no education and/or lower level of education, limited income sources and uncontrolled population growth of the household heads are identified as some of the factors affecting food insecurity in the study area selected Kebeles. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/14441 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Acute & transitory food insecurity. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Food insecurity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Livelihood diversification | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessment of factors affecting food insecurity in Shashogo woreda selected kebeles among rural farm households | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |