Abstract:
Gender, agriculture and nutrition are highly linked issues, Agriculture is the main source of
food and gender roles are vital for increasing agricultural productivity. Many agricultural
interventions are working on empowering women in agriculture to address high dietary quality,
because of womens’ are mainly the caregiver of food in the household.. Due to womens’ are
highly dominated by men’s the dietary diversity in Ethiopia is still very low that is why
resources are mainly in hand of men. Hence, this study aims to assess the role of women
empowerment for householddietary diversity in Libokemkem and Enebsie sar midir woredas,
and subsequently assess the level of womens’ empowerment. In this study, 200-sample
households were selected using multi stage random sampling techniques. A cross-sectional
study was conducted from November, 2019 to October, 2020 to assess the role of Womens’
Empowerment in Agriculture for Household Dietary Diversity in Libo Kemkem and Enebsie
Sar Midir woreda, Ethiopia. Abbreviated womens’ empowerment in agricultural index
(A_WEAI) was used to capture empowerment level of womens’. Two stage least squares and
ordinal least square estimation was also conducted to analyze the relationship between women
empowerment in agricultural index and dietary diversity. oridinary least square regression was
used to analyze the effect of empowerment indicators on household dietary diversity.The result
in both regression models shows as there is positive and statistically significant effect between
women empowerment and household dietary diversity. The finding in the oridinary least
squares shows that input in productive decision, input in income decision, ownership of assets
and input in credit decisions have positive and statisticaly significance.. Thus, it is
recommended that there is a need to work more on empowering women in agriculture to
increase the household dietary quality