Coffee Agroforestry and the Food and Nutrition Security of Small Farmers of South-Western Ethiopia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research institute
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Agroforestry Centre
cg.contributor.affiliationArsi University
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Koblenz-Landau
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Bonn
cg.contributor.crpForests, Trees and Agroforestry
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.608868
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.issn2571-581X
cg.journalFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
cg.number608868
cg.reviewStatusPeer Review
cg.volume5
dc.contributor.authorJemal, O.M.
dc.contributor.authorCallo-Concha, D.
dc.contributor.authorNoordwijk, M. van
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-15T02:19:24Zen
dc.date.available2021-10-15T02:19:24Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/115427
dc.titleCoffee Agroforestry and the Food and Nutrition Security of Small Farmers of South-Western Ethiopiaen
dcterms.abstractAgroforestry generally contributes to rural food and nutrition security (FNS). However, specialization on commodity-oriented agroforestry practices or management strategies can weaken local food sourcing when terms of trade fluctuate, as is the case of coffee in Ethiopia. Hence, this study assessed the trade-offs that smallholder farming households in south-western Ethiopia face between growing coffee in agroforestry systems and their food and nutrition security based on home production as well as markets. Data collected from 300 randomly selected households included: (i) attributes of agroforestry practices (AFP) and plants: structure, use type, edibility, marketability, nutritional traits, and (ii) the householders' FNS attributes: food security status, nutritional adequacy, and nutritional status. Data were collected both in food surplus and shortage seasons, during and after coffee harvesting. Within these data, the number of plant species and vegetation stories were significantly correlated with household food access security in both seasons and for all AFP identified, i.e., homegarden, multistorey-coffee-system, and multipurpose-trees-on-farmlands. The number of stories in homegardens and the richness of exotic species in multipurpose-trees-on-farmlands were significantly correlated with the biometric development of children below 5 years old during the shortage season. The richness of “actively-marketed” species in all AFP correlated with the food access security of the household, except in the multistorey-coffee-system, oriented to coffee production. Also, families that cultivate all three AFP showed significantly higher household diversity dietary during the shortage season. We conclude that no single AFP can secure FNS status of the households by itself, but the combination of all three can. Household and individual dietary scores were positively correlated with the AFP diversity-attributes, especially in the shortage season. Thus, the diversity of useful groups of plant species deserves to be promoted for instance by enriching AFP with edible and storable crops needed during the shortage season.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.available2021-08-24
dcterms.bibliographicCitationJemal, O.M., Callo-Concha, D. and van Noordwijk, M., Coffee Agroforestry and The Food and Nutrition Security of Small farmers of South-Western Ethiopia. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5: 608868. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.608868en
dcterms.issued2021-08-24
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherFrontiers Media
dcterms.subjectagroforestryen
dcterms.subjectcocoaen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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