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 nonproducers. 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.