This study was conducted with the objectives of assessing the status and determinants offoodrnsecurity. to examine the contribution of RWH for food security and to explore practices andrnchallenges of R WH in the study area. To that effect. primQly data of the household surveyrnand secondary data was used. The study area was selected through a multi-stage purposivernsampling technique. In addition. simple random and purposive sampling techniques werernused to select respondents and key informants and focus group discussion respectively. Forrnanalysis purpose the study employed both qualitative and quantitative. Basically. for thernqualitative data analysis triangulation method was used whereas for the quantitative datarndescriptive statistics (percentage. mean. SD). bivariate and multivariate analyses were used.rnTo decide the food secured and insecure households 2100Kcal was taken as a cut off point onrnthe bases of 14-days food consumption of the households. Accordingly. 65% of thernhouseholds were found to be food secured whereas 35% food insecure. The result Fomrnmultivariate logistic regression analysis indicated that age. labor and market accessibilityrnhave shown significant and negative effect to food security whereas cultivable land size.rnfertilizer utilization. engagement to R WH and the interaction effect between education statusrnand income categOlY have shown significant and positive role for food security.rnFurthermore. the result Fom the qualitative data indicated that the overall trend of R WHrnadoption in the Woreda was found to be declined from time to time. However. a recel7lrndevelopment around Bulbula shows an increase in the self-initiated adopters ' in RWH. Thernfinding of the study forther revealed the challenges for the adoption of RWH to berninstitutional. technological and adopter's financial limitation Thus. policy programmingrnshould be based on the rudimentQlY of the precise determinants offood security status andrnalleviation of challenges for the adoption of RWH. Further consecutive. rigorous andrnintensive research in this area clearly called for by the finding of the study