Contribution of Natural Resource Management to Food Security in Leman Watershed, Degem Woreda, Oromia National Regional State.
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2019-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The overriding objective of this study is to explore the of participation of households in different
soil and water conservation practices in enhancing their production and food security and
examine their production efficiency Thus, this study analyzes farmer’s choice of single and
combination choice of SWC practices (i.e. stone bund, soil bund, stone bund and soil bund, soil
bund with plantation and all conservation practices) and evaluates the impact of these
technologies on households food security and also assess their production efficiency and
determinants of inefficiency. The necessary data were generated principally from primary and to
some extent secondary sources to answer the research question. Thus, household survey
involving 290 households was done using questionnaires. Multinomial logit and endogenous
switching regression models were employed to achieve the above objectives. In addition, the
study employed one stage approach in which both technical efficiency and factors of inefficiency
are analyzed simultaneously. The result of endogenous switching model reveals that adoption of
SWC practices have a positive and significant impact on household’s food security. Moreover,
the result of the study also shows that households adopting all conservation practices are more
food secure than other alternative adopters. Failure to adopt SWC practices leads to lower food
security status. According to the multinomial logit result, technology adoption is positively
related with education/ training, soil fertility, access to extension services, land size and
livestock holding. But adoption of agriculture technologies has negative and significant relation
with non-marriage status, and distance to the input and out market. On the other hand, study
revealed nearly half of households produce with only 50% percent efficiency and there is a room
to improve production efficiency. Slope of farmland, livestock possession, agricultural tools
ownership and SWC participation are factors that significantly determine efficiency. Increased
effort on physical SW conservation activities along with biological, investing more education
and training, improving infrastructure/access to services are key recommendation in improving
production efficiency and food security are stemmed out of the study.
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Food security, Multinomial endogenous, Soil and water conservation, Switching regression, Technical efficiency