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DOI	10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104373
	Contributions of water harvesting technologies intervention in arid and semi-arid regions of Ethiopia, in ensuring households' food security, Tigray in focus
	Gebru, Tesfay Asgele; Brhane, Grmay Kassa; Gebremedhin, Yohannes Gerezihier; Wereda, Kilete-Awlaelo
通讯作者	Gebru, TA
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS
ISSN	0140-1963
EISSN	1095-922X
出版年	2021
卷号	185
英文摘要	Interventions of water harvesting technologies (WHTs) in drought-prone areas like the Tigray region (northern Ethiopia) is an option less strategy to alleviate food insecurity issues emanating from water scarcity. Hence, wide spectrums of WHTs were applied in Tigray Region in the last three decades. Thus, this study aimed to assess the WHTs and the subsequent contributions in ensuring households' food security in Kilete-Awlaelo district of the Tigray Region. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected through a household survey (n = 246), focus group discussion, key informants interview, and field observation, and subjected to descriptive and inferential statistical analysis on the SPSS environment. The explanatory power of the WHTs to food security was deter-mined using a regression model. The result revealed that 64.6% of the households applied WHTs while 35.4% not. Though a statistically significant positive relationship (p < 0.05) between the WHTs (predictor) and PCC acquisition as food security parameter (predictand) was observed, the magnitude was not strong enough where only 6.1% of WHTs users and 0.81% of non-users had achieved the average standard PCC requirement (2100 kcal) from their farm production. Hence, strengthening and expanding the functional domain of the WHTs fitting to the socio-economic, environmental, and biophysical context of the locality is profoundly indispensable.
英文关键词	Water harvesting technologies Semi-arid regions Household food security Northern Ethiopia Tigray region
类型	Article
语种	英语
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000589890800007
WOS关键词	FUTURE CHALLENGES ; MANAGEMENT ; SCARCITY ; EASTERN ; MALARIA
WOS类目	Ecology ; Environmental Sciences
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/327994
作者单位	[Gebru, Tesfay Asgele; Gebremedhin, Yohannes Gerezihier] Adigrat Univ, Dept Geol, Adigrat, Ethiopia; [Brhane, Grmay Kassa] Adigrat Univ, Dept Nat Resource Management, Adigrat, Ethiopia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gebru, Tesfay Asgele,Brhane, Grmay Kassa,Gebremedhin, Yohannes Gerezihier,et al. Contributions of water harvesting technologies intervention in arid and semi-arid regions of Ethiopia, in ensuring households' food security, Tigray in focus[J],2021,185.
APA	Gebru, Tesfay Asgele,Brhane, Grmay Kassa,Gebremedhin, Yohannes Gerezihier,&Wereda, Kilete-Awlaelo.(2021).Contributions of water harvesting technologies intervention in arid and semi-arid regions of Ethiopia, in ensuring households' food security, Tigray in focus.JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS,185.
MLA	Gebru, Tesfay Asgele,et al."Contributions of water harvesting technologies intervention in arid and semi-arid regions of Ethiopia, in ensuring households' food security, Tigray in focus".JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS 185(2021).