Agriculture and Rural Development

The notion of food security seeks to address the issue of food and hunger through sufficient production of food at individual, family, or country level. Countries can attain food security when they are able to support their agriculture and produce food to guarantee the right to food of their populations within their terrain. As maintained on World Food Summit, […]

This paper looks at the role of improving access to financial services on rural farm households’ socio-economic status in Ethiopia using a national survey data collected from 1559 households for the end-evaluation of Rural Financial Intermediation Program II (RUFIP-II) project. In order to assess the role of access to credit on rural farm households’ socio-economic