Assessing Factor Affecting The Adoption of Rain Water Harvesting Practice, in Chamuk Kebele, Moyalle Woreda, Somali Regional State of Ethiopia

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2016-06

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Addis Ababa University

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This study was conducted with the objectives of identifying the technical and institutional factors that affect the adoption of RWHT and to explore practices and challenges of RWHT in the study area. To that effect, household survey conducted on 108 households, 12 focus group and 4 key informants. In addition, secondary data were used elicit the primary data. The study area was selected through a multi-stage purposive sampling technique while simple random method employed for household survey. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative methods, where triangulation method was used for qualitative whereas descriptive statistics analysis was used for quantitative data analysis. The result from descriptive analysis indicated that age household heads, labor and market accessibility have shown significant and negative effect to adoption of RWHT whereas adopting of RWHT have shown significant and positive role for food security. The interaction effect between education status and income category indicated that literates were better than illiterates’ households in the level of RWHT adoption and implementation. Furthermore, the result from the qualitative data indicated that the overall trend of RWHT adoption in the study area was found to be increase from time to time. However, a recent development around Chamuk district shows an increase in the self-initiated adopters’. The finding of the study further revealed the challenges for the adoption of RWHT to be institutional, technological and adopter’s financial limitation. Thus, policy programming should be based on the rudimentary of the precise determinants of food security status and alleviation of challenges for the adoption of RWHT

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Geography and Environmental Studies

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