Household Food Security Status and Coping Strategies in Humbo Wereda, Snnprs, Ethiopia.

Authors

  • Meseret Meskele Guja Wolaita Soddo ATVET College

Keywords:

Food security, Humbo, binary logistic regression model.

Abstract

Important rural food security interventions can effectively either be formulated or be implemented through in-depth analysis of the food security status of the rural households. Therefore, this study was conducted to measure rural households

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2012-10-14

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Guja, M. M. (2012). Household Food Security Status and Coping Strategies in Humbo Wereda, Snnprs, Ethiopia. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 6(1), 64–82. Retrieved from https://gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/1864

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