Socioeconomic Impacts Of Rural Financial Intermediation Program Ii (RUFIP-II) Through Cooperative Sector: In The Case Of Ethiopia

The major issue of considerable parts of rural Ethiopia is Chronic food insecurity, as matter of fact more than half of rural districts/woredas in Ethiopia are prone to shortage of rainfall and food insecurity (MOA, 2014 cited in Ahmed, 2016, p.1). These food insecure areas are suffering from soil infertility caused by soil erosion and deforestation, inadequate land size per household, unpredictable and irregular rainfall, decrease in agricultural yield, increased population, infrastructural inaccessibility, lack of suitable farming methods, lack of optional business and scant market information (MoA, 2010 cited in Ahmed, 2016, p.1).