Dietary Diversity in Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Abstract

The emerging interest in household dietary diversity against dietary quantity presents an opportunity to estimate household food security. Using household cross-sectional survey data from rural communities in the Western Ethiopia province of South Western Oromia specific area of Hurumu and Yayu Woredas, the paper estimated determinants of rural household dietary diversity. The maim objectives of the paper, To investigate the differences in dietary diversity among diverse groups, To identify meal frequency of households. and To examine households dietary diversity in the study area. The study suggests that the study area has low dietary diversity, there is a need for integrating famine relief and prevention strategies at the regional level with the overall development strategy. The strategy should aim at selfsufficiency at the local level and dietary diversity at the household level.