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| dc.contributor.author | Asresahagn Ayele | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-23T08:05:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-07-23T08:05:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-07-23 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/12247 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research initiated to address the problems of resource ownership the economic empowerment in agricultural activities and to fill the gap of economic empowerment of rural in Basona Worena Woreda. The researcher was used three stage sampling technique by stratified kebeles in to two strata. A total of 210 sample women farmer were randomly selected from four selected kebeles. Primary and secondary data sources were used for this study. Primary data were collected through interview schedule, key informant interview and focus group discussions. Beside the author used quantitative and qualitative research approach. Woman empowerment in agriculture index, descriptive statistics and binary regression analysis were used to analyzing the collected data. The five domains of empowerment result shows that in Basona Worena woreda have 42.38 percent of women are empowered and the remaining 57.62 percent of women, who are not yet empowered. Thus the overall five domains of empowerment are similar to woman empowerment in agriculture index 0.7178.The regression result reveals that out of fifteen explanatory variables incorporated in the model, ten variables such as age of respondents , educational status , household land size , farm income, participation in off-farm activities, participation of farmer cooperative, utilization of credit, agricultural extension service, distance of market, and livestock ownership were found to a significant determinants of economic empowerment of rural women though agricultural activities in the Woreda. Whereas factors such as family size, marital status, participation in the agricultural demonstration, frequency of contact with extension agent, and extension package training have no significant influence. This study concludes that rural women contribution for each indicator to women disempowerment according to their importance could reduce disempowerment and facilitate adequate empowerment in all dimensions. Rural women were lack of access to credit, lack of technical skill and lack of transfer of asset such as livestock and land, lack of purchase and sale solely or jointly their asset. The following recommendations were forwarded that agricultural sectors, women affair office and local government should be create awareness for women to use agricultural inputs and extension service, equal asset right and to minimize workloads of women. Community should be given high privilege for women their domestic and productive activities. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Rural Development and Agricultural Extension | en_US |
| dc.title | ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF RURAL WOMEN IN AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES: THE CASE OF BASONA WORANA WOREDA, AMHARA REGION, NORTH EASTERN ETHIOPIA. | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
