scholarly journals Adoption of Modern Hive Beekeeping Technology: The Case of Kacha-Birra Woreda, Kembata Tembaro Zone, Southern Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Akililu Mulatu ◽  
Senapathy Marisennayya ◽  
Elias Bojago
Keyword(s):  
Group Discussion ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Southern Ethiopia ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Adoption Of Technology ◽  
Livelihood Options ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Multistage Sampling ◽  
Logit Regression Model ◽  
Binary Logit Regression

Beekeeping is one of the livelihood options available to Ethiopian farmers. The objectives of this study were to analyze the level of adoption of modern hive technology by farmers and to identify the variables influencing the adoption of modern beekeeping hive technology in Kacha-Birra Woreda. Primary data were collected from 89 respondents chosen using a multistage sampling process, while qualitative data were collected through focus group discussion and key informant interviews. Data were analyzed using a binary logit regression model and descriptive statistics. According to the results of the model, several factors, such as the educational level of the respondents, the size of the land, the extension, the contact, and the access to financing and market, had a substantial impact on the adoption of modern hive beekeeping technology. It is suggested that the Livestock and Fish Resource Development office develops a strategy to help the community's illiterate members benefit more from the use of contemporary hive beekeeping technologies, develops a strategy to benefit farmers who have large land sizes with modern hive beekeeping technology, establishes extension contact with farmers before technology innovation leads to better adoption of technology, and strongly advises to link a strategy with micro-enterprises. Promotional activities focused on preventing the access to the market of respondents that must ensure their active participation in adoption.

scholarly journals Indigenous Environmental Knowledge of Borana Pastoralists

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 110-131
Author(s):  
Dejene Alemayehu ◽  
Zerihun Doda
Keyword(s):  
Group Discussion ◽  
Natural Resources Management ◽  
Environmental Knowledge ◽  
Southern Ethiopia ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Key Informant Interview ◽  
Customary Practices ◽  
Borana Zone

This paper investigated the indigenous environmental knowledge (IEK) of Borana pastoralists in Dhas district of Borana zone in Southern Ethiopia. To select participants for key informant interview and focus group discussion (FGD), snowball sampling was used to pinpoint people who have IEK of Borana pastoralists. Results show that the customary practices of Borana pastoralists that linked to multi-dimensional natural resources management (NRM) include the taxonomy of pastureland and water resources instituted on the season of utility and gazing dimensions, range scouts, herd splitting, cattle mobility, herd diversification, and bush burning. However, currently owing to various factors the IEKs of Borana pastoralists have been facing threatening challenges that question their existence. The study incorporated the capitalization on the customary institutions that advance the IEK and cattle productivity finally improving the livelihoods of the Borana pastoralists. This research intends to help various stakeholders, predominantly pastoralist development office, ecologists and other development partners in a bid to develop Borana pastoralists, to boost their sustainability, and to promote sustainable NRM.

scholarly journals Community participation in the Kampung KB Program in Jambi Province

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-352
Author(s):  
Hardiani Hardiani ◽  
Dwi Hastuti ◽  
Hasriati Nasution
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Logit Regression ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Binary Logit ◽  
Logit Regression Model ◽  
Binary Logit Regression

Kampung Keluarga Berkualitas (Kampung KB) is one of the development programs to create quality families in Indonesia. Kampung KB is a village-level regional unit with integration and convergence in implementing empowerment and strengthening of family institutions in all its dimensions to improve the quality of human resources, families, and communities. The growth of Kampung KB in Jambi Province shows the high government's attention to this program to improve the quality of life of its people. However, the Kampung KB's success in improving the community's quality of life is largely determined by the level of community participation itself. This study analyzes the factors that influence community participation in the Kampung KB Program in Jambi Province. This study uses primary data obtained through target group respondents in Kampung KB in Jambi Province. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and a binary logit regression model. The study results found that the overall level of community participation in the Kampung KB Program was moderate. The level of community participation was significantly related to education, length of stay at the location, and distance from house to the place of activity.

scholarly journals Households' preference for some selected cowpea varieties in Oyo State, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 108-114
Author(s):  
Ajibola Ojedokun ◽  
Olufemi Yesufu
Keyword(s):  
Formal Education ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Logit Regression ◽  
Multinomial Logit Regression ◽  
Cowpea Varieties ◽  
Multistage Sampling ◽  
Logit Regression Model ◽  
Weevil Infestation

This study was carried out to determine the factors influencing households' preference for some selected cowpea varieties in Oyo State, Nigeria. Primary data were collected from a total of 250 households from five Local Government Areas (LGAs) using the multistage sampling technique. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and multinomial logit regression model. The study revealed that households mostly preferred the Oloyin variety of cowpea and that households mostly used Oloyin for their different cooking. The age of household head, the primary occupation of household head, years of formal education, income, prices of cowpea varieties, aroma during cooking, ability to tolerate weevil infestation and absence of foreign particles influenced households' preference for cowpea varieties. The study recommends that it is necessary for stakeholders and breeding institutions to give attention to the Oloyin variety if the Agricultural Promotion Policy's aim will be achieved.

scholarly journals Multidimensional Rural Poverty In Burji And Konso Area, Southern Ethiopia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yohannes Mare ◽  
YishaK Gecho ◽  
Melkamu Mada
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Southern Ethiopia ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty Index ◽  
The World

Abstract Ethiopia is among the poorest countries in the world and the level of poverty is more challenging in rural areas compared to urban. Currently, there are great tendencies over the world to measure poverty using Alkire and Fosters' MPI approach among different approaches of poverty assessment. This study aimed at assessing multidimensional rural poverty status household's poverty in Burji and Konso area in Southern Ethiopia. To address this objective, 368 households were selected using simple random sampling techniques. The data were collected from both primary and secondary sources. Interview schedule, focused group discussion, key informant interview, and observation methods were implemented to collect primary data. Alkire & Foster Methodology with modified four dimensions and 14 indicators used to analyze multidimensional rural poverty. The study reveals as the highest three deprivations 97.8% of cooking fuel, 92.6% of the floor, and 76.1% of drinking water. The multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) of the study area was 0.419 with 76.6% of incidence and 54.7% the intensity of multidimensional rural poverty. The highest (15%) contributor to MPI was deprivation in school attendants and the highest (34%) deprivation dimension was in living Standard out of four dimensions.

scholarly journals Diversification of Livelihood Strategies in Melamchi Valley, Sindhupalchok District, Nepal

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 113-126
Author(s):  
Madhu Krishna Neupane ◽  
Dhyanendra Bahadur Rai
Keyword(s):  
Group Discussion ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Information Collection ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
The People ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Community People ◽  
Market Center ◽  
Key Informant Interview

 Livelihood strategy varies from place to place. People living in certain place have a diverse strategy over time. This study attempts to analyze the sources of livelihood, livelihood strategies of different communities and their adaptive strategies in Melamchi Valley. The livelihood patterns and the strategies have been dealt on the basis of community. This study is based on primary data that are collected using household questionnaire, focus group discussion and key informant interview. A set of standardized questionnaire, observation sheet, and checklist were used for information collection. The finding of the study portrays that paddy is the major crop cultivated by Brahmin/Kshetri communities whereas millet and maize are the principal crops cultivated by Tamang community. People of this area are attracted towards cash generating activities than the subsistence agriculture farming in the present days. The people of market center are motivated towards trade and business whereas the people of remote area have dependence on remittance. The trend of foreign migration for earning livelihood is high among the rural settlements. Similarly, earning from wage labor in the informal sectors has become important source of livelihood in Melamchi Valley.The Geographical Journal of NepalVol. 11: 113-126, 2018

scholarly journals Marrying off Early

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 126-141
Author(s):  
Zerihun Tesfaye ◽  
Dejene Chala
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Early Marriage ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Viable Option ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
School Girls ◽  
Mixed Approach ◽  
Life Career

This article investigates early marriage among the Oromo in Dawo District, Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia. The research employed a mixed approach to secure relevant data. We collected primary data from the field via key informant interviews and focus group discussion. We selected key informants purposively from concerned government offices and community representatives. We collected quantitative data via questionnaire from 92 randomly selected school girls. Despite the government’s attempts to ban early marriage, the practice is still common and evolving. Parents are gradually losing the sole decision to marry their children without their consent nowadays. Yet they still have power over when and to whom they give away their daughters. Kadhaa (betrothal) and butii (abduction) are the two main ways of effecting early marriage in the study area. The main cultural reasons for which parents marry off their daughters early include securing their daughters’ future and maintaining girls’ pre-marital virginity. Virginity is valued in marriage and can be a source of honor or shame for the girls and their parents. Poverty, and particularly the current dire economic conditions in the area, coupled with an alarming level of joblessness among the youth who hold a diploma or a degree, have made the girls at school lose hope in education as a viable option for their future life and worsened early marriage in recent years. The girls themselves view marriage as an alternative life career and thus quit school for an early marriage.

scholarly journals Effect of Social Capital on Poverty Alleviation among Fish Farming Households in Oyo State, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Adepoju
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Fish Farming ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Multistage Sampling ◽  
Logit Regression Model ◽  
Farming Households

This study investigates the effect of social capital investment on poverty reduction among fish farming households of Oyo State, Nigeria. A multistage sampling technique was adopted in the selection of the respondents. Primary data were collected using a structured questionnaire from a representative sample size of 359 households in four local government areas representing the four agricultural zones, namely Ibadan-ibarapa, Oyo, Ogbomoso and Saki in Oyo State, Nigeria. The study used a multinomial logit regression model to examine the effect of social capital on household poverty. The estimates of the regression model indicated that, in addition to the socio-economic characteristics of some households, social capital endowments have significant effect on the probability of a household being poor. The study concluded that, among other factors, social capital is very important in reducing household’s poverty. It was therefore recommended that stakeholders should be encouraged to invest in households’ social capital to accelerate poverty reduction among the fish farmers in the study area.

scholarly journals Determinants of farmers’ access to microcredit from cooperative societies in Ondo state, Nigeria

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-107
Author(s):  
A Kolapo ◽  
AS Ogunleye ◽  
AD Kehinde ◽  
AA Adebanke
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Logit Regression ◽  
Cooperative Society ◽  
Consumer Cooperative ◽  
Ondo State ◽  
Multistage Sampling ◽  
Logit Regression Model

The study examined the determinants of farmers’ access to microcredit from cooperative societies in Ondo state. A multistage sampling technique was used to obtain data from 100 respondents. Primary data was collected for the purpose of the study. We used descriptive statistics and logit regression model to analyses the data collected. Result showed that the farmers were mostly male farmers (64%) while majority of the farmers had a mean age of 44.10 ± 14.70. It was also revealed that consumer cooperative society, producer cooperative society, marketing cooperative society, cooperative farming society and credit and thrift cooperative society were the major forms of cooperative used by the farmers. The result also shows that age, marital status, farm size, farming experience, credit from another source and number of years in the cooperative significantly influenced farmers’ access to microcredit from cooperative society. Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. Tech. 11(2): 103-107, Dec 2021

scholarly journals IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON WHEAT PRODUCTION IN NAWALPARASI (B.S.W) DISTRICT, NEPAL

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-77
Author(s):  
Bibhor Gauli ◽  
Mahesh Karki ◽  
Diwas Poudel ◽  
Susan Poudel ◽  
Apil Chhetri
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Probit Model ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Adoption Of Technology ◽  
Wheat Production ◽  
Impact Of Climate Change ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Different Sources

Survey research was conducted in Nawalparasi (B.S.W) district to assess farmers’ perception on climate change and the impact of climate change in wheat production. The survey was conducted in four municipalities (rural municipality). A total of 83 respondents were involved in this study. The primary data were collected through survey questionnaire, direct observation, focus group discussion, whereas secondary data on wheat area, production and productivity from different sources were also collected. The majority of the respondents (90.4%) perceived about climate change while 9.4% respondents were not aware about climate change. Furthermore, out of the respondents mentioning changes in temperature, rainfall duration, rainfall amount, dew and winter monsoon around 95.2%, 91.9%, 92.4%, 94% and 90.3% of them opinionated that there were changes in wheat production because of these factors respectively. Moreover, t-test and probit model analysis showed that there was great impact of climate change in wheat production and impact is increasing yearly in Nawalparsi(B.S.W) district. So, Government and policymakers should focus on climate resilient adaptation strategies formulation for crop cultivation through intensive research and extension packages. Adoption of technology to reduce the impact of climate change should be encouraged to gain optimum wheat production.

scholarly journals THE VULNERABILITY AND LIVELIHOOD STRATEGIES OF URBAN REDEVELOPMENT-INDUCED RELOCATEES IN ADDIS ABABA: THE CASE OF PEOPLE RELOCATED FROM ARADA-SUBCITY TO NIFAS SILK LAFTO-SUBCITY

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 974-979
Author(s):  
Habtamu Atlaw
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Addis Ababa ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Key Informant Interview

The study aimed to investigate the vulnerability and livelihood strategies of urban relocatees. The study used purely qualitative research methodology. Semi-structured interview, key informant interview, focus group discussion and observation were employed to generate primary data. Relocating people from inner city slum to the outskirt has left relocatees vulnerable to weak social network. However, it has led relocatees turn out to be free of exclusion. Relocation has enabled relocated people to live in neat and better planned environment. It, however, exposed relocatees to unaffordable urban monetized life. Relocatees employed various strategies to cope up with the relocation- induced stun, such as, changing consumption pattern, reducing expenditure, using second hand product and increasing the quantity of labor in household. The strategies also increase relocatees vulnerability.

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