The Role of Urban Agriculture in Mitigating Urban Poverty

The Role of Urban Agriculture in Mitigating Urban Poverty | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Research Article The Role of Urban Agriculture in Mitigating Urban Poverty Tadele Alamneh This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-8924035/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Under Review Version 1 posted 14 You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract Urban agriculture is neglected by policy makers, researchers and urban planners in Ethiopia in general and in research area in particular. Moreover, there are controversial ideas concerning its role in household poverty alleviation. In a modest attempt to fill in the research gap observed in this area; the present study was carried out at Bahir Dar city. The objective was to analyze the role of urban agriculture in mitigating urban poverty. The study employed primary data collected by using structured questionnaires from 240 sample respondents selected randomly using proportional to size technique in the respective sub-cities and secondary data sources. The data were analyzed using poverty index, descriptive statistics and logistic regression model analyses. The finding depicted that the poverty alleviation role of urban agriculture was found to be 80.3% in the study area. The result of logistic regression displayed that family labor, non-farm per capita income, membership to cooperative, modern input use and educational level (primary & secondary) had significant and negative impact on the probability of being poor in their marginal effect. Therefore, urban agriculture can play a significant role in poverty reduction, and the government should make it an integral part of urban policy. Poverty urban agriculture logit model Bahir Dar city Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. 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