Impacts of multiple livelihood diversification strategies on diet quality and welfare of smallholder farmers: Insight from Kaffa zone of Ethiopia

IF 3.7 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Kindineh Sisay
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In Ethiopia, agriculture is the primary source of food and livelihood for many rural households, making it a dominant sector that seeks to reduce food/nutrition insecurity and poverty. Even if it is dominant, currently the sector is facing many challenges such as unexpected shock like drought and flooding, reduction in output mainly due to soil nutrient degradation and lack of capital to use improved agricultural technologies. Hence, rural households are compelled to develop strategies to cope with the increasing vulnerability associated with agricultural production. The current study therefore assessed rural households' participation in a combination of multiple livelihood diversification strategies and its impact on diet quality and welfare of smallholder farmers in Southwestern Ethiopia. As the average treatment effect on the treated result from multinomial endogenous switching regression model shows, an isolated participation in non-farm livelihood diversification results in a significant effect on smallholder farmers' welfare but, it doesn't have a significant effect on nutrition security measured in dietary diversity. Likewise, joint participation in off-farm and non-farm livelihood diversification results in a significant effect on rural households' nutrition security however it doesn't have a significant effect on welfare. The only livelihood diversification package that has a significant effect on both welfare and nutrition security simultaneously is off-farm livelihood diversification alone. As a result, policymakers and rural finance programs should shift their focus and place a greater emphasis in incentivizing smallholder farmers to invest on diversification strategies that can boost both welfare and nutrition security simultaneously, which is off-farm diversification.

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多种生计多样化战略对小农饮食质量和福利的影响:埃塞俄比亚卡法区的启示
在埃塞俄比亚,农业是许多农村家庭的主要粮食和生计来源,使其成为旨在减少粮食/营养不安全和贫困的主导部门。尽管农业占主导地位,但该部门目前也面临着许多挑战,如干旱和洪水等意外冲击、主要由于土壤养分退化造成的产量减少以及缺乏使用改良农业技术的资金。因此,农村家庭不得不制定战略,以应对与农业生产相关的日益严重的脆弱性。因此,本研究评估了农村家庭参与多种生计多样化战略组合的情况及其对埃塞俄比亚西南部小农饮食质量和福利的影响。多项式内生转换回归模型得出的平均处理效果显示,单独参与非农业生计多样化对小农户的福利有显著影响,但对以膳食多样性衡量的营养安全没有显著影响。同样,共同参与非农业和非农业生计多样化会对农村家庭的营养安全产生重大影响,但对福利没有重大影响。唯一能同时对福利和营养安全产生显著影响的生计多样化一揽子方案是单独的非农生计多样化。因此,政策制定者和农村金融项目应转移重点,更加重视激励小农投资于可同时提高福利和营养安全的多样化战略,即非农业多样化。
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Cleaner and Responsible Consumption
Cleaner and Responsible Consumption Social Sciences-Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
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