Analysis of households’ vulnerability to food insecurity and its influencing factors in East Hararghe, Ethiopia

Million Sileshi (), Reuben Kadigi, Khamaldin Mutabazi and Stefan Sieber
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Million Sileshi: Sokoine University of Agriculture
Reuben Kadigi: Sokoine University of Agriculture
Khamaldin Mutabazi: Sokoine University of Agriculture
Stefan Sieber: Humboldt-University Berlin

Journal of Economic Structures, 2019, vol. 8, issue 1, 1-17

Abstract: Abstract Previous studies on food insecurity in many developing countries, including Ethiopia, have mainly focused on current food insecurity, lacking the ex-ante analysis. An understanding of household vulnerability to food insecurity is critically important to inform the formulation of policies and strategies to enhance food security and reduce vulnerability to food insecurity among smallholder farmers. This paper analyses vulnerability to food insecurity of farming households using the vulnerability as expected poverty (VEP) approach. The paper is based on cross-section data collected from a sample of 408 households in East Hararghe, Ethiopia, selected using a multi-stage sampling procedure. The factors which influenced vulnerability to food insecurity were analyzed using the Feasible General Least Squares regression model. The results of analysis indicate that vulnerability to food insecurity increased with the age of household head (P

Keywords: Vulnerability as expected poverty; Vulnerability to food insecurity; Food insecurity; Ethiopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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