Determinants Of Food Security Under Subsistence Agriculture In Northern Ethiopia. A Case Study From Hintalo--jirat Wereda South Eastern Zone Of Tigray Region

Food security is a relative concept defined as the access to food by all people at all time to enoughrnfood for an active, productive and healthy life. Food security can be achieved when householdsrnproduce enough staple food for their consumption or when they have enough income to meet theirrnfood need from market. Like many developing countries, Ethiopian farmers in the highlandsrnpredominantly practice subsistence farming and are ojien subject to food insecuirty. The currentrnstudy aims to identify the determinants in achieving food security at household level in HintaloWajiratrnwereda, South Eastern zone of Tigray region , Northern Ethiopia. The data was collectedrnFom both primary and secondary sources. A multi stage cluster sampling procedure werernemployed to sellect households Fom the wereda. Households were selected using systematicrnrandom sampling procedure proportional to size Fom the selected gots of the study area. A totalrnof 210 households were interviewed using a semi structured questionnaire based interviewrnschedule Fom three agro-ecological zones of the wereda. A two stage least square regressionrnanalysis was used to identify the determinant variables offood production andfood security statusrnof a household. Total cultivated land size and total livestock holding of the household were foundrnto significantly(P

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