On December 16, 2016, ESSP’s Bart Minten and Seneshaw Tamru gave a presentation on issues of herbicide use in smallholder agriculture at the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR). The study addressed four questions: updated typology of herbicide use in the country, distribution and policies, link of herbicide adoption with labor productivity and associates of adoption. The researchers used qualitative and quantitative information from a number of datasets to study the adoption patterns and labor productivity impacts of herbicide use in Ethiopia. The result was a four-fold increase in the value of herbicides imported into Ethiopia over the last decade, primarily by the private-sector. Adoption of herbicides by smallholders has grown rapidly over this period, with the application of herbicides on cereals doubling to more than a quarter of the area under cereals between 2004 and 2014. Full details of this presentation are available here
This presentation was organized by ESSP and EIAR with support from EDRI. ESSP is a collaborative program undertaken by IFPRI and EDRI, whose objective is to help improve the policy-making decision process in Ethiopia.
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