Food Security Status and Copping Strategies of Agro Pastoral Households, in Kebri Beyah District, Somali Regional State, Ethiopia
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2021-10
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
This study was carried out to identify food security status its determinants and coping strategies
of agro pastoral households in kebri Beyah district of Ethiopia. Data used in this study were
collected from 153 rural households, using purposive sampling technique. Household survey,
field observations, key informant interviews and focus group discussions were utilized during
primary data collection. Household food insecurity access scale was used to measure the food
security accessibility of the household in the study area, Household Food Balance Model was
used to measure the sample households’ food security availability and compare the determinants
of household food security and finally coping strategy index was used to identify the most
practiced coping s in the study area. Besides, descriptive analysis was used including; mean,
standard deviation and cross-tabulations of frequency distribution. The survey results of the
study using HFIAS revealed that 80 percent of the households were food insecure, while 20
percent were found to be food secure. The main factors determining household food security
status were identified as household demographic factors (sex, age, educational status and family
size), economic factors (cultivated land size, farm oxen ownership, and remittance). And
institutional factors (extension service, input availability and market availability). Hence, the
main coping mechanisms adopted by household in the study area is used to increase household
food availability through borrowing cash or grain from others and selling of more livestock than
usual and limiting portion size at meal time are practiced by the largest portion of households
livestock which is 88% and 66% and 58% respectively. Conversely skipping the entire day
without eating and sending households to somewhere else 5%, and 11% respectively are the
least practiced coping mechanisms in the study area.
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Household, Food security/insecurity, determinants, dietary energy, coping mechanism, kebri Beyah.