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Impact of income diversification on rural household food security in Ethiopia

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  • Girma Gezimu Gebre
  • Aneteneh Ashebir
  • Tibebu Legesse

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Using primary data collected from 462 farm households, this paper aims to examine the impact of income diversification on rural household food security in Ethiopia. A propensity score matching model was employed to analyze the impact of participation in both agriculture and non-agriculture activities on household food security. The results indicate that age, education level, household size, number of contacts with extension agents, and numbers of livestock in tropical livestock units have a significant effect on household participation in both agriculture and non-agriculture sources of income generation. The propensity score matching result suggested that participation in both agriculture and non-agriculture would increase the rural household food security status by 10.6% to 19.5%, mainly due to a positive effect of additional sources of income generation from non-agriculture activities as witnessed in present and past studies. Therefore, to make considerable improvement on the food security situation, there is need to promote and scale-up on-farm, off-farm and non-farm income-generating activities in rural areas to diversify income sources so as to improve food security status of the rural households in Ethiopia.

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  • Girma Gezimu Gebre & Aneteneh Ashebir & Tibebu Legesse, 2023. "Impact of income diversification on rural household food security in Ethiopia," African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 15(7), pages 913-922, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rajsxx:v:15:y:2023:i:7:p:913-922
    DOI: 10.1080/20421338.2023.2220636
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