Analyzing Poverty and Resilience to Shocks of Bamboo Producing Smallholders in North-West Ethiopia

Dagnachew Walle

doi:10.7176/jpid/59-01

Abstract

Exploring and understanding the multiple purposes of bamboo on enhancing and sustaining the livelihood of smallholders’ through multidimensional poverty reduction and mitigating shocks is so crucial. Data analysis was done using both descriptive and econometric analysis using the software package of stata thirteen. As the result revealed that, pests affecting crops and the large increase in input price were relatively high frequent shocks in the households. As the finding shows that, 29.13 percent of the smallholder farmers were multidimensional poor. To examine resilience to shocks of smallholder, RIMA models using factors analysis was run. As the factory analysis explored that, 233(47.94 percent) of smallholder were resilient to shocks and 253(52.06 percent) were non-resilient. Among bamboo, users80.15percent were resilient while the non-user (32.92percent). The study recommends on the need for policy and strategies design to enhance the well-being of smallholder and to build resilience to shocks, organizing bamboo producer smallholder in a bamboo cooperative, providing extension service proper processing of bamboo value chain should have to a policy in North- West Ethiopia. DOI: 10.7176/JPID/59-01 Publication date: February 28 th 2021

Highlights

Among the various resources in the world, bamboo is one of the most important
The present study indicated that, agriculture alone could not sustain the overall proportion of the households in the studied district and that support from other activities should complement household livelihoods
According to the observable indices of the deprivations household members 5 years schooling, malnourishment and households cook with the dirty material were higher than others

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Introduction

Among the various resources in the world, bamboo is one of the most important. It is a global fact that rural households have an attachment to natural resources in general and to forest particular for consumption and nonconsumption purposes. Around the globe above 600 million people make their income from bamboo, and about 2.5 billion people based their life on bamboo with an estimated value of US $ 7 billion per year FAO, (2005) To this effect, bamboo has enormous potential for enhancing the environment, resilience to shocks, reducing poverty, UNIDO, (2009). The bamboo sector has the potential to end poverty and mitigating shocks In addition to this as, INBAR (2015) stated in its report by promoting bamboo planting and cultivation can help the poor provide with a natural resource that they have access to and ownership over and principally resilient to natural and manmade shocks and reduce the severity of poverty

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