ESSP has an integrated set of both research and capacity strengthening initiatives to improve the policy-making process.
2023 STRATEGIC POLICY RESEARCH AREAS:
- Food Policy Research towards Inclusive and Sustainable Growth in Ethiopia
- Transforming agriculture sustainably
- Reducing Malnutrition
- Improving markets, value chains, and trade
- Building resilience
- Improving the evidence and policies for better performing livestock systems in Ethiopia
- Understanding the dairy value chain
- Understanding consumption and markets of ASF: A national analysis
- Animal source food (ASF) consumption in Ethiopia: Patterns, changes, and drivers
- Livestock and ASF price behavior in Ethiopia: Patterns, changes, and drivers
- Poverty, nutrition, and safety nets (e.g. PSNP)
- Feed the Future (FTF) Program impact evaluation
- The Impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP4) on women’s time use, nutritional status of women and pre-school children in the face seasonality and market access constraints.
2023 CAPACITY STRENGTHENING INITIATIVES:
In collaboration with other partners, ESSP seeks to share knowledge and strengthen capacity to advance Ethiopia’s capability through many activities:
- Policy Studies Institute (PSI)
- Support to PSI SAM/CGE analysis
- Support policy analysis on agricultural productivity, markets, and economic growth
- Central Statistical Agency (CSA)
- Support impact evaluation of FTF and PSNP
- Ministry of Agriculture (MoA)
- Support analysis of impact of agricultural extension and impact of new agricultural technologies
- Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA)
- Support the establishment of the Ethiopian Soil Information System (EthioSIS) geo-database and survey through GIS analysis
- Support teff research
- Support in providing training on GIS activities
- Technical support in predicting and developing soil nutrient status of agricultural land using field, laboratory, satellite image, and other secondary sources.
- Support in identifying high agricultural potential woredas (districts) and nutrient-deficit areas for further soil fertility mapping and producing fertilizer recommendations for policy inputs, respectively.
- Ethiopian Economics Association (EEA)
- Technical and financial support to the Price Dynamics Hub
- Organize trainings for members of the EEA
- Support the annual conference
