Title Page
Contents
List of Acronyms 9
Abstract 10
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION 12
1.1. Background 12
1.2. Problem Statement 14
1.3. Research Objectives 15
CHAPTER II. LITERATURE REVIEW 16
2.1. Bamboo Production and Value Chain 16
2.2. Global bamboo Marketing 19
2.3. Bamboo Production and Utilization in Ethiopia 20
2.4. Bamboo Value Chain in Ethiopia 21
CHAPTER III. RESEARCH METODOLOGY 23
3.1. Study area 23
3.2. Data collection 25
3.3. Sampling procedures 26
3.4. Data analysis and interpretation 28
3.5. Conceptual framework 30
3.6. Definition of variables 32
CHAPTER IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 33
4.1. Socio-demographic characteristics of the respondents 33
4.2. Comparison of respondents' age with their educational level 36
4.3. Family size of bamboo producers 38
4.4. Investigating the attitude of bamboo producer towards production, utilization and consumption of bamboos 38
4.5. The role of existing bamboo value chain for the livelihood of local farm households 44
4.6. Factoraffecting the bamboo producer benefit in value chain 54
CHAPTER V. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 61
5.1. Conclusion 61
5.2. Recommendation 63
Literature cited 65
ANNEXES 69
요약 77
Table 1. Sample frame and size 27
Table 2. Definition of variables 32
Table 3. Demographic characteristics of the respondents 36
Table 4. Comparison of respondents' age with their educational level 37
Table 5. Family size of bamboo producers 38
Table 6. Attitude of the respondent towards production and management of bamboo 40
Table 7. Attitudes towards the use of new technologies for the production and... 42
Table 8. Attitude towards the policy framework issues 44
Table 9. Broad category of respondents' in to income class 46
Table 10. Breakdown of respondents' income in to different income sources 46
Table 11. Annual income contribution from selling of bamboo 47
Table 12. Mechanisms of income generating from bamboo 48
Table 13. Market access to sell bamboo products 49
Table 14. Means of transport to bring bamboo products to the market and distance... 50
Table 15. Respondents bamboo market price information and price settlers 51
Table 16. Benefits from bamboo products 52
Table 17. Major Chain actors 53
Table 18. Omnibus test of model coefficient 55
Table 19. Result of binary logit regression analysis coefficients 56
Figure 1. Map of Sidama Zone in SNNPR - Ethiopia. 24
Figure 2. Map of the study area-Hula district 25
Figure 3. Conceptual Framework 31
Figure 4. Income generating from bamboo 48
Figure 5. existing bamboo value chain 54