Abstract Using primary data collected from 560 farm households in Dawuro zone, southern Ethiopia, this study analyzes the gender gaps food security among male, female, and joint decision-making households. It examines factors inducing of those three categories. The results show that female have a lower probability ensuring food-security higher being transitionally chronically food-insecure. Joi...

this study examined the status and determinants of rural households’ food security in moyale district of pastoral area, oromia regional state, in ethiopia. both secondary and primary data were used for the study. the study was based on the survey of a total of 100 farmers randomly selected using a three-stage sampling technique. analytical tools used include descriptive statistics, foster-greer...

considerable consequence of households’ consumption expenditure changes is on energy using in agricultural sector and in other economical sectors. the main objective of this paper was to study of consequences increasing rural and urban households expenditures on changing of energy using in agricultural sector and on producing of environmental pollutants in khorasan razavi province. for this pur...

The word ‘ganyu’ is widely used in Malawi to describe a range of short-term rural labour relationships, the most common of which is piecework weeding or ridging on the fields of other smallholders, or on agricultural estates. Ganyu is a crucial poverty issue in Malawi because: • After own-farm production, ganyu is the most important source of livelihood for most poor households – for some it is...

Rural areas of Madagascar face a tense food and nutrition security situation. The country reports some the highest rates undernourishment malnutrition worldwide. Evidence is scant, however, about how rural people’s diets vary over course agricultural year, different household types deal with fluctuating availability. This lack detailed understanding situation across time social strata currently...