2025/02/08 by Tewelde Gebresslase Haile, Haile, Tewelde Gebresslase, Sukh Pal Singh +1
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Agricultural Innovations and Practices #Agricultural risk and resilience #Climate change impacts on agriculture #LCI #Rural households #livelihood assets #livelihood vulnerability #public policy
paper · doi:10.20372/dijbar181.v7i2.2025
openalex publication_date 2025/02/08 · openalex created_date 2025/12/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/01
This study applies the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework (SLF) as an analytical tool to assess the root causes of livelihood vulnerability with special emphasis on four rural districts of Ethiopia. A multi-stage sampling is used to collect cross-sectional data from 471 households through self-administered questionnaire. Livelihood Capacity Index (LCI) is constructed from five livelihood capitals to estimate households’ livelihood vulnerability. The study finds majority of rural households with below-average LCI due to limited access to physical and natural capitals; education, healthcare, and agriculture services, drought-prone location, limited access to irrigation, and weak community-based networks are revealed as the root causes for livelihood vulnerability. Finally, this study suggests integrated livelihood capacity building efforts and expansion of the scope and efficacy of public interventions as policy measures.