Assessment of Household Food Security and Its Determinants in Minjar Shenkora and Ada’a woredas of Central Ethiopia

Food security issues become one of the critical concerns and top priority areas for Ethiopia. This study analyzed rural households’ food status its determinants in Minjar Shenkora woreda Amhara Regional State Ada’a Oromia State. Data were collected from 240 randomly selected farm households. The employed both descriptive statistics a binary logistic regression model to estimate security, respectively. findings indicated that average dietary energy available secured households was 2,860.6 kilo calorie per day while 1,891.7 insecure group. According logit model, factors such as education level, size, livestock ownership, cooperatives membership, off-farm income credit access have positive significant effects on household security. While size has negative effect results recommend interventions should target at improving financial services activities increase focusing those most variables when attempting enhance