headed household were low dietary diversity. The ordered logistic regression result further indicates that for female headed household age of household head, cultivated land size and amount of crop produced had positive significant and amount of land rent out had negative significant on female headed household food security status. For male headed household cultivated land, TLU and amount of crop produced positively significant and also land rent out and credit access are negatively significant on male headed household food security status, the study finding was significant at p