Determinants of the Household’s Food Security among Cooperative Members: The Case of Awbere District in Somali National Regional State
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2019-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Many governments, donors, and international aid agencies or developmental organizations
dispersed millions of dollars for reducing the impact of food insecurity and hunger in developing
countries including Ethiopia. One of the dominant tools that help reduce poverty at households’
level is promoting the role of cooperative include food security and hunger. The objective of this
study is to examine the determinants of household food security among the cooperatives
members based on the data collected from 120 respondents selected randomly in Owbera
Woreda, Somali Regional State. The study used both primary and secondary data sources.
Primary data was collected through structured questionnaire interview schedule and focus group
discussion while Secondary data was collected from reviewing of various documents related to
the role of cooperative on food security. A descriptive statistics and econometric model (Binary
logit model) were used for the analysis of the data gathered. The result indicates that the status
of food security among cooperative members significantly influenced by factors such as age of
the household head, education, total livestock owned by the household and sex of the household
head. The findings of the study also shows that, households employ arrange of coping strategies
during food insecurity including sale of firewood and charcoal and sale of livestock,. Generally
the findings of the study suggests that there is a need to improve their educational level by
bringing education intervention programs and to improve livestock production and productivity
through provision of veterinary drug services, sustainable forage development programs ,
improving the capacity of community animal health workers . Moreover the study pointed out
major problems effecting food security among cooperative members such as low level of
cooperative’s performance , climatic shocks, poor rain fall, structural problems , drought and
climate change Therefore , cooperative management is recommended to give appropriate
attention to make members of cooperative skilled members through training, investing in human
capital of the cooperative members and give enough credit facility to improve the performance
of cooperative members and to improve their educational level by bringing education
intervention programs and to improve livestock production and productivity through provision of
veterinary drug services, sustainable forage development programs , improving the capacity of
community animal health workers
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food security, Cooperative members, Owbere Woreda