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Item DETERMINANTS OF HOUSEHOLD PARTICIPATION IN URBAN AGRICULTURE: THE CASE OF GURAGE ZONE, ETHIOPIA(Wolkite University, 2023-01-30) ALEMU LEMMAUrban agriculture plays a very important role in improving household income and decreasingpoverty. Despite its significant role in fulfilling the basic demand of low-income families,household’s participation were very low. Therefore, this study was conducted to identify factorsthat determine household’s participation in urban agriculture and assess the impact ofparticipation on household income in Gurage zone. The study utilized both primary andsecondary data sources, and a multi-stage sampling technique was employed to gatherinformation from 204 households using a structured questionnaire. The logistic regression modelwas employed to analyze the determinants of participation in urban agriculture and propensityscore matching was used to analyze the impact of participation on household income. The resultsof the study show that, 25.76% of the households were practicing in urban agriculture.Household’s decision to participate in urban agriculture was influenced by household sex,education level, income from other sources, access to credit, access to water, access to improvedinputs and access to extension services. The impact analysis results of this study show that urbanagriculture has a positive significant impact on household total income. The average treatmenteffect on the treated was ETB 6803 and it was significant at 1% significance level. In conclusion,this study suggest that urban agriculture practice should be encouraged by governmental andnon-governmental organizations through provision of credit and promotion of alternative watersources to increase urban agriculture participation in the study areaItem IMPACT OF RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ON HOUSEHOLD’S WELFARE; IN CASE OF GURAGE ZONE, SNNPRS(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2023-05) AMSALECH KORNSA ATRAGA,The main goal of this study was to impact of rural electrification on household’s welfare; in case of Gurage zone, SNNPRS. Towards this end, a multi stage sampling technique was used to collect data from a total of 228 randomly selected sample households, of which 125 households were electrified and 103 households were non-electrified. This study used both primary and secondary data collected through interview schedule and review of various documents respectively. Descriptive statistics as well as econometrics methods of data analysis was employed. The result from the binary logit model indicated that education level, community access to good road, connection with national line, income of the households were found to be positively and significantly determining grid household’s electrification. Moreover, the propensity score matching model, based on the radius caliper (0.1) matching technique was used to analyze the impact of rural electrification on household’s consumption expenditure and income. Accordingly, the average treatment effect on treated (ATT) estimation result revealed that rural electrification had significantly increased the per capita food consumption expenditure, per capita total expenditure and total annual income of the households. Thus, constructing rural roads, expansion of the capacity of the electric power and tackling electric power outage ad facilitate either formal or informal education access there by to electrify rural farm households were recommended to the government bodies to sustain the significant outcome of rural electrification.