The Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (ESSP) in collaboration with the Ethiopian Agricultural Research Council Secretariat (EARCS) conducted a training on; Impact Evaluation for national researchers from different agricultural research institutes from March 9 - 13, 2020. The one week training provided tools to familiarize trainees with Impact evaluation in order to help them answer key […]
New journal article by Bart Minten, Seneshaw Tamru and Thomas Reardon. Abstract: We study post-harvest losses (PHL) in important and rapidly growing rural–urban value chains in Ethiopia. We analyze self-reported PHL from different value chain agents – farmers, wholesale traders, processors, and retailers – based on unique large-scale data sets for two major commercial commodities, […]
Re-posted from IFPRI.ORG. (Updated March 19, 2020) The health and safety of our staff and their families, partners and stakeholders, and local communities is of the utmost importance for IFPRI. With the WHO classifying COVID-19 as a very high human health risk IFPRI is instituting the following guidelines: Teleworking Arrangements IFPRI strongly recommends teleworking for all […]
Why is gender equality vital for achieving sustainable, productive and climate-resilient food systems? CGIAR Scientists share experiences from the field. Read More.
ESSP Working Paper 138, by Kibrom A. Abay, Nathaniel D. Jensen. Abstract: Despite several studies showing the effect of access to markets and weather conditions on crop production, we know quite little on whether and how livestock production systems respond to variation in weather risk and access to markets. In this paper, we study whether and […]
Project Syndicate published an op-ed by Senior Research Fellows Bob Baulch and Danielle Resnick. The op-ed discusses Malawi’s litigated general elections and compares it to re-run elections held in other African countries. The authors suggest from their research four lessons for young African democracies in a contested election scenario.
A winner of the 2019 Big Data Platform Inspire challenge uses commercial microwave links to estimate rainfall & help design better index insurance in developing countries. Read more.
New journal article by Kalle Hirvonen & John Hoddinott. Abstract: Economists often default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. Do beneficiaries feel the same way? This paper addresses this issue using longitudinal household data from Ethiopia, where a large-scale social safety net intervention (PSNP) operates. Even though most payments […]
We are saddened by the passing of Ato Newai Gebre-Ab, Chief Economic Adviser to the former Prime Minister of Ethiopia, yesterday February 24, 2020. Ato Newai was a great champion of IFPRI's work and served as the chair of ESSP's National Advisory Committee for the past decade and guided in that capacity our research in […]
New journal article by Kibrom A. Abay. Abstract: The low uptake of modern agricultural technologies in sub‐Saharan African countries has encouraged researchers to revisit the returns to (or profitability of) these agricultural inputs. A related strand of literature is exploring the allocative efficiency of these factors of production in African agriculture. However, all these studies […]
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