Improving children’s diets is intrinsically valuable, not only to improve their wellbeing but because healthy diets lead to well-nourished and healthy children, who in turn become healthy and economically productive adults. Moreover, there is growing evidence that the quality of children’s diets – specifically the consumption of nutrient rich legumes and animal source foods as […]
As part of ESSP’s ongoing commitment to training, a 4-day GIS training course was delivered in March 2015 at Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, part of Hawassa University. 11 lecturers, 1 MSc and 4 PhD students participated in the training. The dean of the college, Dr. Girma Mengesha, was grateful for the […]
This conference on nutrition scheduled for Monday 15th June 2015, promises to be an invaluable opportunity for all those involved in nutrition in Ethiopia to meet and exchange ideas, from a very practical perspective as well as from solid research. Aside from networking, the purpose of the conference is to present the most recent evidence […]
The Agricultural Economics Society of Ethiopia (AESE) held its annual conference on 27 March 2015 at the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research Meeting Hall in Addis Ababa. The event was co-sponsored by IFPRI-ESSP. Approximately 40 people attended and were rewarded with presentations and discussions on a diverse range of topics including women’s empowerment, agricultural technology adoption […]
IFPRI’s flagship report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions in 2014 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2015. Drawing on rigorous research, IFPRI researchers and other distinguished food policy experts consider a wide range of crucial questions: How can middle income countries, which despite becoming more affluent are still home […]
Listen and watch Bart Minten (Senior Research Fellow and Program Leader) to see how ESSP works in Ethiopia, fostering close links with the local community and policy makers to generate effective research themes. 6 themes have been identified: Agricultural Transformation Value Chains Agricultural prices and Food Prices Land and Water Management Risk Productive Safety Net […]
On February 20, 2015, a short presentation on the relationship between children’s diet diversity, household production diversity and market access was delivered by Kalle Hirvonen at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) from ESSP. In total, 51 people from a wide range of alliances attended, indicating a particular interest in this important topic for Ethiopia. […]
ESSP Research Note 37."Synopsis: Social networks and factor markets: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia ?" by Abay, Kibrom A., Kahsay, Goytom A. and Berhane, Guush Summary of ESSP Working Paper 68. In the absence of well-established factor markets, the roles of indigenous institutions and social networks as mobilizing factors for agricultural production can be substantial. We investigate the role of […]
ESSP Working Paper 73. "Childhood shocks, safety nets and cognitive skills " by Berhane, Guush, Abay, Mehari Hiluf and Woldehanna, Tassew Abstract: A growing body of evidence emphasizes that shocks in early childhood can have irreversible effects on long-term child welfare and poverty. A number of studies have investigated the effects of shocks on child nutrition and health. However, […]
ESSP Research Note 36."Synopsis: Can agricultural traders be trusted?" by Assefa, Thomas Woldu and Minten, Bart Summary of ESSP Working Paper 72. Traditional food marketing systems in developing countries are often not trusted. In consequence, policy makers frequently try to regulate them and modern market arrangements increasingly are emerging that seek to address some of their presumed deficiencies. […]
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