Food Security Status and Copping Strategies of Agro Pastoral Households, in Kebri Beyah District, Somali Regional State, Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Mulugeta, Messay PhD | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hussen, Mohamed | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-20T12:16:24Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-18T08:45:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-12-20T12:16:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-18T08:45:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-10 | |
| dc.description.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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/29367 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Household, Food security/insecurity, determinants, dietary energy, coping mechanism, kebri Beyah. | en_US |
| dc.title | Food Security Status and Copping Strategies of Agro Pastoral Households, in Kebri Beyah District, Somali Regional State, Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |