Linking Small-scale Irrigation And Household Food Security In Drought Prone Area Of North East Ethiopia A Case Of Alawuha Irrigation Scheme Gubalafto Woreda And North Wollo Zone

In north eastern part of Ethiopia, drought induced food insecurity has been a long-lastingrnproblem. In this thesis, an attempt made to identify household food security status and itsrndeterminants in one of drought prone area- Gubalafto Woreda. Moreover, the linkagesrnbetween Small Scale Irrigation and household food security in provision of food energyrnassessed. A multi- stage stratified sampling procedure was used to select 115 samplernhouseholds from both irrigation users and non-users living within the targeted kebeles. Arncombination of quantitative analysis like descriptive statistics, Household Food BalancernModel, binary logit model and qualitative study were used to reach at reliable results byrnusing data gathered from both primary and secondary sources. The survey resultrnrevealed that 29 % of sample households were food insecure and 71 % food secure.rnThere is huge gap in food calorie availability ranging from 788- 8405Kca in the studyrnarea. Food insecure households were found to have an average of 24% food gap in termsrnof dietary energy, which is needed to fulfill the national minimum requirements. Thernaverage per capita calorie supply for irrigation users was found substantially increasedrnby 889 Kcal, which is about 42 % percent of the minimum requirement of food caloriernrequires by an individual. The use of SSI was found significantly related to householdrnfood security situation in provision of household dietary energy and taking a lion share inrnthe proportion of study areas major consumable from food crops production. The logitrnmodel revealed that household size, educational status of household head, number ofrnfarm oxen, cultivated land size, engagement in non-farming, access to irrigation andrncredit service were found significant determinants. Correspondingly, the study disclosedrnthat the long distance between irrigated land to farmers residence, lack of cleaning andrnmaintenance of scheme, free grazing , poor irrigation methods and crop selection werernthe major constraints in the irrigation farm. SSI is one of the viable solutions tornhousehold food supplement and hence promoting of smallholders to produce directlyrnconsumable food grains is advantageous. It is important to address those food securityrndeterminants and farmers’ views in planning and executing of development policies andrnprograms by all stakeholders to tackle the problem of household food insecurity in thernstudy area

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