Abstract
The study findings show not only the complexity of structural and local factors influencing farmers’ food insecurity but also their responses to these factors in two sites: the Fero-two Peasant Association (coffee-based farming system) in the Wensho district and the Hanja-Chafa Peasant Association (maize-based farming system) in the Boricha district of the Sidama zone. The factors causing food insecurity are economic, social, political, physical and environmental that ranging from local to national and international levels. Farmers’ adopt ex-ante and ex-post consumption and production-related adaptation strategies. However, most of the adopted strategies are short-term. A single and short-term food security intervention is little use for improving the farmers’ adaptive capacity to deal with changes. Policy interventions need better comprehend the local condition of vulnerability and farmers’ livelihood strategies, the agro-ecology, rainfall pattern and farming system to adapt sustainable agricultural practices and social protection to build resilience to adapt climate change and socio-politico-economic drivers of food insecurity.
List of papers
Article 1: Abebe, Gezahegn. Debates on the Linkages between Agricultural Commercialization and Farmers Food Insecurity: Examples from Ethiopia. Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. Manuscript submitted for publication. To be published. The paper is not available in DUO awaiting publishing. |
Article 2: Abebe, Gezahegn. A Productive Safety-Nets program‘s role on household resilience to food insecurity in Boricha District, Ethiopia. Food Policy. Manuscript submitted for publication.To be published. The paper is not available in DUO awaiting publishing. |
Article 3: Abebe, Gezahegn. Dealing with Climate Change and Other Stressors: Small-scale Coffee Farmers in the Fero-two Peasant Association in the Wensho District, Southern Ethiopia. Regional Environmental Change. Manuscript submitted for Publication. To be published. The paper is not available in DUO awaiting publishing. |
Article 4: Abebe, Gezahegn. Household Food Insecurity in two Peasant Associations of the Rural Sidama Zone of Southern Ethiopia. Ghana Journal of Geography. Manuscript submitted for publication. To be published. The paper is not available in DUO awaiting publishing. |
Article 5: Abebe, Gezahegn. Farmers‘ Coping and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change-Driven Food Insecurity in the Rural Sidama Zone of Southern Ethiopia. Climate and Development. Manuscript submitted for publication. To be published. The paper is not available in DUO awaiting publishing. |
Article 6: Abebe, Gezahegn. A survey data description on food insecurity factors, farmers‘ coping and adaptation strategies in the Sidama zone of southern Ethiopia. Data in Brief. Manuscript submitted for publication. To be published. The paper is not available in DUO awaiting publishing. |
Article 7: Abebe, Gezahegn. (2017). Long-term climate data description in Ethiopia. Data in Brief, 14, 371-392. The article is included in the thesis. Also available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2017.07.052 |