Amhara Region Impact of Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture on Welfare Outcomes of Rural Women: In Case of Este And Andabet Woredas, South Gonder Zone, Amhara Region

Abebe Mucheye

dc.contributor.author	Abebe Mucheye
dc.date.accessioned	2021-08-09T11:35:52Z
dc.date.available	2021-08-09T11:35:52Z
dc.date.issued	2021-08
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/12322
dc.description.abstract	The main objective of this finding was to investigate the impact of nutrition sensitive agriculture on welfare outcome of rural women in case of south Gonder zone specifically Este and Andabet Woredas. Food insecurity and malnutrition are priority development challenges of Ethiopia. To counter the problem, the country embraced the nutrition sensitive agriculture approach and taken decisive measures relevant for wide implementation of the practice. This study has assessed the extent to which the desired welfare outcomes are realized in the intervention beneficiary Este Woreda as compared to the Andabet Woreda that did not benefit from such intervention. Purposive and simple random sampling procedures were used to select these two Woredas, and 384 representative households respectively. The study employed key informants’ interview checklists and structured questionnaires to gather relevant data, which was then, analyzed using descriptive statistics and propensity score matching (PSM) method. The study findings demonstrated that the intervention has a significant and positive influence on assessed welfare outcomes namely women empowerment and household income, Of the examined women empowerment domains, appreciable improvement was made in leadership and access to resources. Regarding the outcome on production and consumption diversity, mothers’ and children’s consumption was seriously constrained by socio- cultural and religious factors. Despite these challenges, intervention beneficiary women and their children have had higher minimum dietary diversity than non-beneficiary women and their children. The home production of nutrient dense food sources positively affected the consumption of these items although extremely poor families opted to sale part or the entire farm produce in order to generate the badly needed cash. To countervail this challenge, future nutrition sensitive agriculture intervention programs should consider livelihood and income diversification opportunities as part of the scheme so as to allow the poor households use the home produced nutrient dense foods for intended purpose. In addition, the sustained and wider dissemination of the nutrition sensitive agriculture approach would require building the capacity of key actors (government, NGO, donor agents) and institutionalizing the scheme in the regular publicly supported extension program The main objective of this finding was to investigate the impact of nutrition sensitive agriculture on welfare outcome of rural women in case of south Gonder zone specifically Este and Andabet Woredas. Food insecurity and malnutrition are priority development challenges of Ethiopia. To counter the problem, the country embraced the nutrition sensitive agriculture approach and taken decisive measures relevant for wide implementation of the practice. This study has assessed the extent to which the desired welfare outcomes are realized in the intervention beneficiary Este Woreda as compared to the Andabet Woreda that did not benefit from such intervention. Purposive and simple random sampling procedures were used to select these two Woredas, and 384 representative households respectively. The study employed key informants’ interview checklists and structured questionnaires to gather relevant data, which was then, analyzed using descriptive statistics and propensity score matching (PSM) method. The study findings demonstrated that the intervention has a significant and positive influence on assessed welfare outcomes namely women empowerment and household income, Of the examined women empowerment domains, appreciable improvement was made in leadership and access to resources. Regarding the outcome on production and consumption diversity, mothers’ and children’s consumption was seriously constrained by socio- cultural and religious factors. Despite these challenges, intervention beneficiary women and their children have had higher minimum dietary diversity than non-beneficiary women and their children. The home production of nutrient dense food sources positively affected the consumption of these items although extremely poor families opted to sale part or the entire farm produce in order to generate the badly needed cash. To countervail this challenge, future nutrition sensitive agriculture intervention programs should consider livelihood and income diversification opportunities as part of the scheme so as to allow the poor households use the home produced nutrient dense foods for intended purpose. In addition, the sustained and wider dissemination of the nutrition sensitive agriculture approach would require building the capacity of key actors (government, NGO, donor agents) and institutionalizing the scheme in the regular publicly supported extension program	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	ECONOMICS	en_US
dc.title	Amhara Region Impact of Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture on Welfare Outcomes of Rural Women: In Case of Este And Andabet Woredas, South Gonder Zone, Amhara Region	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US