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Impact of productive safety net program on food security of beneficiary households in western Ethiopia: A matching estimator approach
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, Vol 17, Iss 1 (2022), PLoS ONE, Vol 17, Iss 1, p e0260817 (2022)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- From various Ethiopian government food security strategies, the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) is one of the strategies to improve households’ consumption. As a result, the government needs to know the outcome of the program intervention for further decisions in similar poverty reduction strategies. This study examined the impact of Productive Safety Net Program intervention on food security of rural households in rural western Ethiopia. A cross-sectional survey data were gathered from a total of randomly selected 188 beneficiary and non-beneficiary sample households. Key informants interviews and focus group discussions were employed to triangulate household survey results. A Chi-square test was employed to compare the households’ food security status. The propensity score matching method was used to evaluate the impact of a Productive safety net on beneficiary households’ food security status. In this study, the Productive Safety net program has significantly increased households’ calorie intake. The beneficiaries’ households were more food secure than non-beneficiary households by 68% and54% respectively. The mean energy available for the beneficiary and non-beneficiary households is 2488.500 and 2153.394 kcal, respectively. Estimates of the average treatment effect of the treated indicated that a Productive safety net program can impact households food security by 2519.29348 kilocalories, higher in the kernel matching method. This is an encouraging indicator for Programme implementers and funding agents. Therefore, channeling further efforts on this indicator is important for a more pronounced impact of the Programme. Given a certain level of variations of different program impact studies, this study recommends further research with greater scope and at different locations on the impact of PSNP and related Food Security Programs on households’ food security status.
- Subjects :
- Livestock
Science
Political Science
Social Sciences
Public Policy
Research and Analysis Methods
Chi Square Tests
Sustainability Science
Geographical Locations
Mathematical and Statistical Techniques
Medicine and Health Sciences
National Security
Statistical Methods
Statistical Hypothesis Testing
Nutrition
Animal Management
Family Characteristics
Multidisciplinary
Statistics
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Biology and Life Sciences
Agriculture
Agricultural Methods
Sustainable Agriculture
Diet
Food
Poverty Reduction
People and Places
Africa
Physical Sciences
Medicine
Ethiopia
Mathematics
Research Article
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PloS one
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dbd49a89445fb14b1f1ca03d9235d9c3