Impacts of Milk Production on Household Welfare: Evidence from Gulele Sub City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abstract

Milk production practice is one sub-sector of urban agriculture that contributed to improve the urban food security status in the urban area. The food insecurity crisis matter in the urban area has given much attention at all levels: national, government, community, and even at household levels. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impacts of milk production on households’ welfare through food security and nutritional status and the factors that influence the households to engage in this production sector in the Gulele sub-city of Addis Ababa. Thus, its impacts on food insecurity and nutritional status and the factors that influence households to engage in milk production activities have been examined. To do this study, the researcher gathered data at milk producers’ households in every 10 weredas of Gulele sub-city. To gather the data from milk producers’ households, 250 questionnaire distributions were applied as primary source to generate the data. To analyze, this data propensity score matching, household food insecurity access scales are used and order logistics regression model is used to categorize household food insecurity status. The acquired results from this analysis showed that households who engaged to milk production have a better capacity for asset holding, generated better income (7610.89) than non-producers, and in turn have improved food security status. And the finding also indicated that milk-producer households have better food consumption scores (916.7%) as compared to non-producers. In this paper, the main factors that influence the households to engaged to milk production activities are identified which are lack of employment (40.80%) and low income from another source (37.20%) which are the most influential factor than others in the Gulele sub-city. From different types of milk products, almost all households produce milk and many households produce yogurt than butter and cheese.