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Food insecurity presents a major challenge across developing regions, notably in Ethiopia. To understand the factors influencing this issue, research was conducted among 796 farming households in the North Shewa zone within the Amhara region. The investigation assessed daily calorie intake to measure household food security status and applied a logit model to identify underlying determinants. Findings indicate that household food security is significantly shaped by family size, the age and educational level of the household head, involvement in off-farm activities, monthly household income, and proximity to local markets. To enhance food security conditions in the area, interventions should focus on widening educational opportunities for farming families, broadening access to off-farm income-generating activities, and improving physical and economic access to agricultural markets.
Identifying the specific drivers of food insecurity enables development agencies and regional policymakers to design targeted interventions. By showing how factors such as market access, income diversification, and education directly affect daily nutritional intake, these insights help guide rural development programmes toward practical measures that protect vulnerable farming communities from chronic hunger.
This research provides early-stage socio-economic evidence rather than a commercial product. The findings can inform rural development practitioners, microfinance institutions, and agricultural logistics providers seeking to design targeted off-farm enterprise programmes or rural market infrastructure. However, the abstract does not indicate a direct technology transfer or commercial application pathway.
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Food insecurity is one of the most serious problems in developing countries, especially in Ethiopia. Therefore, it is important to understand the barriers to improving the state of food security in the country. Thus, this study aims to investigate the determinants of food security of rural households in the North Shewa zone in the Amhara region, Ethiopia. A sample of 796 farm households was considered. This paper used the calorie intake method per day to measure household food security status and a logit model to investigate the determinants of food security. The results show that family size, age of the household head, educational level of the head, off-farm activities, monthly income of the household, and distance from the market are the major determinants of rural household food security in the North Shewa Zone. The findings suggest that expanding the access to education in farm households, expanding the access to off-farm activities to increase household income, and expanding market access to farm households are important to improve rural food security status in the study area.
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DOI: 10.1155/2022/9561063
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