IFPRI Discussion Paper. Agricultural commercialization is often pursued as an important driver of agricultural transformation in low-income countries. However, the implications it can have on gendered outcomes are less understood. While agricultural commercialization creates opportunities to increase income, this may come at the expense of change in women’s decision-making agency and control over resources. Understanding […]
IFPRI Discussion Paper 02154. Increased diversification of rural households into the rural non-farm economy is an important driver of economic growth and structural transformation in countries like Ethiopia where the vast majority of people live in rural areas and are largely dependent on seasonal agriculture. Some of the benefits of diversification include efficient utilization of […]
The 2022 Annual Research and Policy Conference - Agricultural Transformation and Food Security in Sudan was organized by the Sudan Strategy Support Program (SSSP) on October 10th, 2022 in Khartoum, Sudan. The conference was intended to highlight some key research outputs from the Sudan SSP and other domestic and international researchers working on Food security and […]
Ethiopian agriculture in the news for the period December 01 - 31, 2022 highlighting current stories in agriculture and related topics in the country. Read more>>
Journal Article Kibrom A. Abay, Mehari Hiluf Abay, Guush Berhane, Jordan Chamberlin, Kevin Croke, and Kibrom Tafere Civil conflict began in Ethiopia in November 2020 and has reportedly caused major disrup tions in access to health services, food, and related critical services, in addition to the direct impacts of the conflict on health and well-being. […]
IFPRI Project Note Gashaw Tadesse Abate, Fantu Nisrane Bachewe, Mekdim Regassa, and Nicholas Minot Increased diversification of rural households into the rural non-farm economy is an important driver of economic growth and structural transformation in countries like Ethiopia where most people live in rural areas and are largely dependent on seasonal agriculture. In this study, […]
Project Note: Guush Berhane, Gashaw Tadesse Abate, and Abdulazize Wolle This study examined the patterns, trends, and drivers of agricultural intensification and productivity growth during the recent decade (2012 - 2019) using three rounds of household data collected from four agricultural regions of Ethiopia. The descriptive results indicate a positive trend both in adoption and […]
Journal Article Gashaw Tadesse Abate, Alan de Brauw, Kalle Hirvonen, and Abdulazize Wolle The paucity of reliable, timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries have made it difficult to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic. Standard poverty measurement requires collecting household consumption data, which is rarely collected by […]
Project Note Ethiopia’s rivers and streams (Figure 1) and its ground water potential of 2.6 billion m3 of groundwater potential (Awulachew et al., 2008) is estimated to have a potential to irrigate 5.3 million hectares of land. So far, less than 5 percent of the potentially irrigable land is currently irrigated, exposing the country’s agriculture […]
Frequent food crises with spiking prices have become the new normal in the 21st century, bringing urgency to the task of understanding their nutritional impacts on poor and food insecure populations. In a new analysis of 1.27 million children in 44 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) we show that exposure to food inflation in the womb […]
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