Potato crop is important for its contribution to food security and as income support to a large proportion of the rural households. However, enhancing potato farmers to reach markets and actively engage in potato value ...
Yusuf Umar Mumed; (PhD Fresenbet Zeleke); (PhD) Beyan Ahmed(Haramaya University, 2024-11)
Urban agriculture is crucial in providing affordable food and improving nutrition security for the growing urban population, particularly for poor residents. Hence, identifying the factors influencing the adoption of urban ...
This study investigated the determinants of investments in SAIPs including institutional arrangements, the drivers of income diversification; evaluate the impacts of SAIPs use on net farm income and examine the cost ...
The Adami Tullu Jiddo Kombolcha (ATJK) district is renowned for its tomato production. Despite its potential, the sector faces challenges including low production, low output prices, high input costs, and underdeveloped ...
Agriculture is a vital sector for economic development and livelihoods in developing
countries, particularly in Africa. In Ethiopia, where agriculture plays a crucial role,
adopting climate-smart agricultural practice ...
GARI DUGUMA FUFA; Prof. Fekadu Beyene (PhD); Prof. Mengistu Ketama (PhD)(Haramaya University, Haramaya, 2023-01)
Social capital is one of the most important assets in livelihoods, and the levels of social
capital have effects on rural household’s livelihood strategies. The purpose of this study was
identifying the determinants ...
Gebreegziabher Tesfay; Dr. Degye Goshu(Haramaya University, 2016-04)
Measuring production efficiency in agriculture, mainly, focusing on technical efficiency,
enables to enhance productivity without necessarily increasing the resource base or
developing new technologies thus contributs ...
Firomsa Mersha Tekalign; Dr. Bezabih Emana; Dr. Abule Mehare(Haramaya University, 2024-11)
Climate variability is one of the quickly spread phenomena and considered as the biggest
challenges facing the world in the 21st century which poses the livelihood of the residents at
risk. To deal with the current and ...
Assuring food security in Ethiopia is one of the key priorities for sustainable development. In
line with this, the government of Ethiopia has designed policies to enhance marketing system
of the livestock sector to ...
Irrigation increases productivity by reducing crop failure associated with erratic rain-fed
agriculture and ensuring smallholder farmers’ income by improving their production. This study
was conducted in Erer District ...
Groundnut plays a significance role in enhancing food security and generates income for the
poor farmers of Ethiopia. This research attempted to analyze value chain of groundnut in
Fedis district, Oromia region of Ethiopia. ...
Ethiopia is believed to have the largest livestock resource in Africa. However, lack of
modern marketing channels, low market-oriented livestock production and other unclear
factors are challenging for livestock trade ...
Mohammed Bedri; Ketema Bekele (Ph.D); Kedir Jamal (Ph.D)(Haramaya University, 2024-06)
The study was made in Kurfa Chele Woreda of Oromia Regional State Ethiopia. It focuses on the
analysis of the rural borrower’s loan repayment performance for the loan they accessed from a
microfinance institution. The ...
Climate change causes a serious problem in Ethiopia where the majority’s livelihood depends on
subsistence rain-fed farming system. Effective climate change adaptation strategies are the key to
securing resilience of ...
TAHIR SULTAN; Kedir Jemal (PhD); Beyan Ahmed (PhD)(Haramaya University, 2024-03)
This study evaluates the impact of participation in small scale irrigation scheme on households’
crop income and food security in Sirka district. The study employed descriptive statistics and
econometric models, ...
Implementing different climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices helps by lowering
greenhouse gas emissions, building resilience to climate change, increasing production and
productivity, and thereby improving farmers’ ...
As the supply of feed in poultry production is inadequate and fails to guarantee sustainable feeding at an affordable price, there is a need for the diversification of feed. However, in the voluminous of the empirical ...
Mandefro Seifu Gebru; Professor Jema Haji; Dr. Temesgen Keno; Dr. Dawit Diriba(Haramaya University, 2024-01)
The rural areas of Ethiopia are characterized by low nonfarm diversification and a high
deforestation rate. Because these problems are context-specific, this research aims to
analyze nonfarm livelihood diversification, ...
Nimona Sime; Beyan Ahmed (PhD; Fresenbet Zeleke (PhD)(Haramaya University, 2024-03)
The farmers in developing nations should make important decisions to adopt agricultural technologies as a response to the reduction of food insecurity. Because the farmers in these nations face numerous obstacles while ...