ESSP Working Paper 63 "Cows, missing milk markets and nutrition in rural Ethiopia" by Hoddinott, John F., Headey, Derek and Dereje, Mekdim. Abstract: In rural economies encumbered by significant market imperfections, farming decisions may partly be motivated by nutritional considerations, in addition to income and risk factors. These imperfections create the potential for farm assets to have direct dietary […]
ESSP Working Paper 61. "Hydrological modeling of sustainable land management interventions in the Mizewa watershed of the Blue Nile Basin" by Emily Schmidt and Birhanu Zemadim. Abstract: According to the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the Blue Nile basin is one of the least planned and managed sub-basins of the Nile (IWMI, 2008). Previous studies […]
Agriculture is essential to the economies of East African countries. Climate change, with its effects on temperature and precipitation, threatens this important economic activity. How to foster agricultural development and food security in East Africa as the effects of climate change become more serious is the subject of the study East African Agriculture and Climate […]
The Ethiopia Strategy Support Program organized a day-long conference on “Towards what works in rural development in Ethiopia: Evidence on the impact of investments and policies” on Friday December 13th . The conference marked the end of the second phase of the Ethiopian Strategy Support Program, supported by USAID, DFID, and CIDA (now DFATD). The purpose of […]
The flagship journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), Agricultural Economics, released a Special Issue on Input Subsidy Programs (ISPs) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The main motivation for the special issue is to provide African policy makers and development partners with evidence and insight from high-quality research on the impact of Input Subsidy Programs (ISP) […]
A call for abstracts has been launched for the 2014 GTAP Conference in Dakar, Senegal. The conference theme will be “New Challenges in Food Security, Trade and Economic Vulnerability.” Read more…
This article was originally posted on IFPRI's Insights website. Can insurance help Ethiopian farmers survive the droughts that are likely to come? Recently, scientists uncovered the inconvenient truth that drought in eastern Africa is likely here to stay. They placed the blame squarely on climate change—namely, on the linkage between the warming Indian Ocean and […]
ESSP Research Note 27 "The Impact of the Promotion of Row Planting on Farmers’ Teff Yields in Ethiopia " by Joachim Vandercasteelen, Mekdim Dereje, Bart Minten, Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse . We assess the impact of the promotion of row planting at reduced seed rate on farmers’ teff yields in Ethiopia. Results indicate that the program […]
ESSP Working Paper 60 "Scaling-up Adoption of Improved Technologies" by Vandercasteelen, Joachim, Dereje, Mekdim, Minten, Bart and Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum. Abstract: Adoption of yield-increasing technologies is seen as a key driver to increase agricultural production in Sub-Saharan Africa. There is, however, a lack of empirical evidence on the impact of programs aiming to scale-up the adoption […]
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