Agriculture is the main livelihood of farmers in Banaja Woreda. But influenced internal and externalrnfactors in agro-ecological farming practices. The main objective of this study is to assess awarenessrnand attitude level of farmers, investigate locally acceptable technologies and to examine factorsrnaffecting farmersâ€™ choices of agro-ecological farming practices at the household level in BanjarnWoreda. Mixed research approach, both qualitative and quantitative analysed was employed. Thernsurvey questions covered 211 total sample size; 192 household head, 12 focused group discussion and 7 keyrninformant interviews were selected through simple random sampling method with the selection of twornkebeles, sampling units of four village households and field observation conducted. The result showsrnthat, 169 (80%) households have perceived adoption practices of crop rotation, mixed farming andrnagro-forestry and the remaining 42 (20%) have not perceived in Akayeta& Kessa-Chewsa Kebeles.rnAnalysis of the model indicated that, there is 46% variation between adopters& non-adopters. Farmrnsize, extension services and land degradation negatively significant at 5% level and income,rnawareness, market distance and environmental factors at 1% level. While, family size and educationrnpositively significant at 10 % level and agricultural management at 1% level. It is concluded that inrnBanaja Woreda, there is problem of farmers in adoption practices to respond food security. Farmrnsize, income, awareness, technology, extension, policy incentives, degradation and natural frost werernthe main factors hindering farmersâ€™ choices decided to adopt agro-ecological farming practices. Thisrnimplies, need to support locally acceptable technologies in terms of policy incentives, off-farm incomerntargeted at household level. Furthermore, creating opportunities in adoption of agro-ecologicalrnfarming practices encourage non- adopter farmers in limited farm and technologies.