The Food Security Status of Pepper Producing Households In Shashogo Woreda, Hadiya Zone of South Ethiopia
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2017-10-02
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Addis Ababa University
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Household Food insecurity is one of the major challenges of the country in general and the pepper livelihoods of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples these days. However, there is inadequate information on The Food Security Status of pepper Producing Households in Shashogo Woreda, Hadiya Zone of South Ethiopia. The purpose of this study was to investigate the food security status of pepper producing households in Shashogo Woreda: more specifically to status of pepper producing households’ food security and to identify factors affecting of pepper production Shashogo Woreda. Cross sectional survey design was employed with prepared questionnaire to gather information required for the purpose of the study. The Woreda was selected purposively and the data from 322 sample households were collected from three rural kebeles were selected by using simple random sampling lottery method and the sample households in each kebeles were selected households data were analyzed through descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression model and food security status measurement models. The survey result shows that about 10.8% of sample households were able to meet the daily recommended caloric requirement while 89.2% of sampled households were not. Moreover, binary logistic regression model revealed that main factors which challenge households’ food security status were sex of the households, age of the households, family size, access to credit, and livestock holding size, farm land size, drought and disease. Pepper producing the food security status of the household in the study area. Production incomes of pepper contributed to households’ food security to the large extent in Shashogo Woreda.
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Pepper, Household, Food Security, Per Capita Kilocalories