Determinants of income diversification among rural households: The case of smallholder farmers in Fedis district, Eastern hararghe zone, Ethiopia
By A. Demissie, B. Legesse. 2013
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This paper examines the determinants of income diversification among rural households using cross sectional data collected from Fedis District of Eastern Hararghe Zone, Ethiopia. Both descriptive statistics and rigorous econometric models are used to analyze the data. Multinomial logit model was used to pinpoint factors influencing households’ participation in non/off-farm activities while the determinants of non/off-farm income were analyzed by Tobit model. The descriptive statistics result shows that agricultural activities are the most important source of income for rural households in Fedis District contributing 77% of total household income with the remaining 23% originating from non-agricultural activities. About 84% of the sample households involved in non/off-farm activities and only 16% did not participate in any non/off-farm activity. Participation in non/off-farm employment activities and the level of income derived are found to be influenced by human capital related variables (gender and age of household head, number of economically active family members, education level of household head and presence of children attending school), livelihood assets (livestock holding, size of cultivated land), livelihood diversifying strategy (crop based diversification through number of crops grown and harvested) and infrastructure related variable (proximity to market). The results imply that these factors need to be considered by policy makers in the planning of agricultural and non agricultural initiatives in this study area. Key words: Smallholder, livelihood diversification, participation decision, household income, determinants of economic choices, Ethiopia.
Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science
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- Determinants of non-farm livelihood diversification: evidence from rainfed-dependent smallholder farmers in northcentral Ethiopia (Woleka sub-basin) (2017, result): “Although the picture seems better than the case disclosed by Bazezew, Bewket, and Nicolau (2013) in Lay Gaint (25%), the overall proportion is very small as compared with the available literature in Ethiopia (84% in Eastern Harerghe (Demissie and Legesse 2013), 56.5–63.3% in ANRS (Mintewab et al. 20”
- Determinants of livelihood diversification strategies: The case of smallholder rural farm households in Debre Elias Woreda, East Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia (2015, result): “On the contrary to this result, according to Amare and Belaineh (2013) sex of a household head found to have a significant and positive relation with non/off-farm wage, self and mixed self-wage employment activities participation at 1, 5 and 1% levels of significance, respectively revealing that…”