Mekonnen, D.A. and Gerber, N.
(2017)
Aspirations and food security in rural Ethiopia.
Food Security, 9 (2).
pp. 371-385.
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Abstract
Despite some improvements in recent years, poverty
and food insecurity remain widespread and the main challenges
in Ethiopia. Much of the empirical literature focuses on
identifying the resource-related constraints for farmers to
achieve food security and move out of poverty, with little
attention paid to ‘internal’ or psychological factors such as
aspirations. Using individual and household data collected in
rural Ethiopia, we examined if aspirations were strongly associated
with well-being outcomes, in our case food security, as
posited in the theoretical framework of aspirations failure.We
found that aspirations of the household head were positively
and strongly associated with various triangulating measures of
household food security including per-capita calorie consumption,
the food consumption score (FCS), the household
dietary diversity score (HDDS), and negatively associated
with the household food insecurity access scale (HFIAS). In
contrast, results suggest that the aspirations of the spouse of
the household head are negatively associated with per-capita
calorie consumption and FCS. We discuss the channels
through which aspirations may affect food security and the
avenues for future research.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
Aspirations, Farmhouseholds, Food security, Ethiopia |
| Author Affiliation: |
Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn,
Walter-Flex-Str. 3, D-53113 Bonn, Germany |
| Subjects: |
Social Sciences |
| Divisions: |
General |
| Depositing User: |
Mr T L Gautham
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| Date Deposited: |
28 Aug 2018 07:53 |
| Last Modified: |
28 Aug 2018 07:53 |
| URI: |
http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/15587 |
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