Working for enhancing capacities of people who repeatedly face food insecurity shock requires basic understandings about where their resilience lies. The current study is an endeavor made to understand the sources of rural households' resilience to food insecurity taking the case of Boricha woreda (district) of Sidama Zone in Southern Ethiopia. Boricha woreda is one of the few areas in southern Ethiopia with recurring food insecurity problem. In addition to understanding sources of resilience, the study analyzed the effect of differences in livelihood systems (livelihood zones to which a household belongs) on the households' resilience level. The study is based on cross-sectional field survey conducted by involving 420 households from three livelihood zones: Sidama Coffee, Sidama Maize Belt, and Agro-pastoralist livelihood zones. It was dominantly quantitative study supplemented by key informants' interview. Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), and descriptive statistics (percentage) were employed to analyze the data. Findings revealed that while differences in livelihood systems significantly explained variations in the level of households' resilience to food insecurity, Agro-pastoralist livelihood group is found to be a group with better resilience score on average terms. However, no significant difference is observed between coffee and maize livelihood systems. The PCA analysis revealed that while all turned to be significant, income and food access, agricultural assets, and agricultural technology adoption are the three resilience dimensions toping in terms of contribution to households' resilience to food insecurity. In terms of resilience status, very large proportion of the households (61%) is found to be less resilient and hence may not be able to withstand shocks. Providing context based evidence on the sources of resilience with special focus on rural households and examining the effect of livelihood systems/choices/on households’ resilience to food insecurity with application of ANOVA constitutes the novelty of the study.

努力提高反复遭受粮食不安全冲击的人们的能力，需要对他们的复原力所在有基本的了解。当前的研究是为了了解农村家庭对粮食不安全的抵御能力，以埃塞俄比亚南部西达马地区的Boricha woreda（区）为例。Boricha woreda是埃塞俄比亚南部为数不多的反复出现粮食不安全问题的地区之一。除了了解复原力的来源外，该研究还分析了生计系统（家庭所属的生计区）差异对家庭复原力水平的影响。该研究基于横断面实地调查，涉及来自三个生计区的420户家庭：西达玛咖啡，西达玛玉米带和农牧民生计区。它主要是定量研究，主要受访者进行了采访。使用主成分分析（PCA），方差分析（ANOVA）和描述性统计信息（百分比）来分析数据。研究发现表明，尽管生计系统的差异可以很好地解释家庭对粮食不安全状况的抵御能力水平的差异，但农牧民生计群体的抵御力得分平均较高。然而，在咖啡和玉米生计系统之间没有观察到显着差异。PCA分析显示，尽管一切都变得很重要，但收入和粮食获取，农业资产和农业技术的采用是三个回弹力维度，它们在提高家庭对粮食不安全的复原力方面做出了贡献。就复原力状态而言，发现很大一部分家庭（61％）的复原力较弱，因此可能无法承受冲击。提供有关恢复力来源的基于背景的证据，特别是针对农村家庭，并通过应用方差分析研究生计系统/选择/对家庭对粮食不安全的恢复力的影响，这是该研究的新颖性。