Presentation of PRELIMINARY findings at the 2016 conference on development research at Stockholm University. Focus is on the household level livelihood strategies.

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LINKING HOUSEHOLD LIVELIHOOD
STRATEGIES, ASSETS, AND FOOD
SECURITY
Aisa O. Manlosa, Jan Hanspach, Jannik Schultner, Ine Dorresteijn, Tolera
Senbeto Jiren, and Joern Fischer
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2.  Introduction and aim of the project
 Methodology
 Preliminary findings
Typologies of livelihood strategies
Assets
Food security outcomes
 Initial conclusion, implications
Outline of Presentation
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Borcho deka
Qela harari
Bara
warango
Quda qufi
Difo mani
Gido bere

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Quda Qufi,
Gumay

5. Aims of the project
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1. To understand the conditions
and the means through which
smallholder farming
households construct
livelihood strategies, drawing
on their assets, and attain (or
fail to attain) food security.
2. To contribute to policy
discussions related to
agriculture and food security.

6. Objectives of the study
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Livelihood
strategies
1. Characterize
typologies of
livelihood strategies
Assets
2. Investigate
significance of assets
to livelihood strategies
Food
security
3. Explore how
livelihood strategies
influence food security
outcomes

7. Methodology
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Sampling
Field work
Analysis
n = 340 randomly selected households in 6 kebeles, proportional to the
number of households in the kebele
- Survey questionnaire pre-tested and revised
- Translated from English to Aafan Oromo and back to English to test for
consistency of meaning
- Worked with local translators
Statistical analyses to
- group livelihood strategies
- relate assets to livelihood strategies
- relate livelihood strategies to food security

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Preliminary findings
Finding typologies of livelihood strategies using ordination analysis
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Preliminary findings
stress: 0.208788
Finding typologies of livelihood strategies using ordination analysis

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Checking stability of groupings of households by livelihood strategies
Combining results of ordination and cluster analyses
Cluster 1 - 72 hhs
Cluster 2 - 105 hhs
Cluster 3 - 44 hhs
Cluster 4 – 85 hhs
Cluster 5 – 34 hhs

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Preliminary findings – Typologies of livelihood strategies
1 coffee, teff, maize
2 sorghum, teff, maize
3 coffee, maize
4 coffee, sorghum,
teff, maize
5 barley, wheat, teff

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Livelihood strategy 1:
coffee, teff, maize
Livelihood strategy 2:
sorghum, teff, maize
Livelihood strategy 3:
coffee, maize
Livelihood strategy 4:
coffee, sorghum, teff, maize
Livelihood strategy 5:
barley, wheat, teff
symbol
Preliminary findings – Typologies of livelihood strategies

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Preliminary findings – Relating assets to livelihood strategiesNatural
• Access to coffee
plot
• Owning khat plot
• Accessing
various natural
resources
• Environmental
change in
immediate
landscape
• Soil fertility
• Honey
• Eucalyptus
• Land size –
garden and farms
• Land rights –
owning certificate
Physical
• Distance to
market
• Livestock
• Mobile phone
• Farm tools
Social
• Learning from
development
agents
• Learning from
other farmers
• Membership to
farming
organization
• Help networks
• Ability to speak out
on decision-
making for natural
resources
• Sharing/borrowing
of livestock
• Sharecropping
Human
• Learning from
development
agents
• Learning from
other farmers
• Membership to
farming
organization
• Family farm labor
• Access to
information
• Education
• Health
Economic
• Accessing credit
• Coffee plot
• Khat plot
Types of assets and variables included in analysis

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Preliminary findings – Relating assets to livelihood strategies
Asset variables significant for livelihood strategies

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Mean of HFIAS scores by livelihood strategy
coffee, teff, maize sorghum, teff, maize coffee, maize coffee, sorghum,
teff, maize
barley, wheat, teff
higher score
means higher
food insecurity

18. Initial conclusions
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- Distinct livelihood
strategies, diversified
- Specific types of assets
significant for certain
types of livelihood
strategies
- There are differences in
food security outcomes
across livelihood
strategies. A mix of cash
crop and diverse food
crops leads to better food
security.
- Cash crop only one of
livelihoods
households draw on
- Enabling
combinations of
livelihood activities (e.
g. cash crop and food
crops) may yield to
better food security
outcomes
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Policy implications

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Acknowledgment
ERC Consolidator Grant to Joern Fischer
Oliyad Amente and Shiferaw Diriba for help in field work

20. Contact
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Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Faculty of Sustainability
Aisa O. Manlosa
Scharnhorststraße 1
21335 Lüneburg, Germany
Phone +49.4131.677-7924
aisamanlosa@gmail.com / manlosa@leuphana.de
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