Perceived Determinants of Smallholder Households’ Resilience to Livelihood Insecurity in Goncha District, Northwest Highlands of Ethiopia

Climate change, hazards to productive assets, social-related shocks, and land productivity reduction are all likely make poor households less resilient. In Ethiopia’s highlands, the ability deal with household resilience against poverty in face of uncertainty is minimal. Goncha district Northwest study attempts identify factors livelihood insecurity under crop-livestock mixed agricultural systems. Face-to-face interviews 280 were conducted using a structured questionnaire acquire primary data. The data analyzed descriptive statistics, structural equation modeling. results revealed that was significantly influenced by perceptions sustainable farming practices, cultivation more fertile farmland, savings performance, diversification income-generating activities, intensification livestock husbandry access irrigation practice, familiarity practical technologies. Hence, scaling up systems technologies, improving saving habits, increasing income diversification, intensifying agroforestry perceived be significant increase smallholder over agroecologies.