ESSP Research Note 20 "Insuring against the Weather" by Guush Berhane, Daniel Clarke, Stefan Dercon, Ruth Vargas Hill, and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse. Weather risk remains a major challenge to farming in poor countries that face frequent droughts. Recent evidence on index-based weather insurance points to low take-up rates largely due to basis risk (i.e. residual […]
New ESSP Publication: ‘A Spatial Assessment of Livestock Production and Market Access’
ESSP Research Note 19 "A Spatial Assessment of Livestock Production and Market Access" by Helina Tilahun and Emily Schmidt. Summary of ESSP II Working Paper 44. This study links smallholder livestock production data from the Agricultural Census (2001/02) and annual CSA agricultural sample survey with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data on land cover, city population, […]
ESSP Brochure 2013
Download the new ESSP Brochure 2013 and read about ESSP's major activites, research themes, and capacity building activities for 2013, as well as ESSP's highlights of 2012.
New ESSP Publication: ‘Gender Differences in Access to Extension Services and Agricultural Productivity’
ESSP Working Paper 49 "Gender Differences in Access to Extension Services and Agricultural Productivity" by Catherine Ragasa, Guush Berhane, Fanaye Tadesse, and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse. Abstract: This paper contributes new empirical evidence and nuanced analysis on the gender difference in access to extension services and how this translates to observed differences in technology adoption and […]
New ESSP Publication: ‘Policy Reform toward Gender Equality in Ethiopia’
ESSP Working Paper 45 "Policy Reform toward Gender Equality in Ethiopia. Little by Little the Egg Begins to Walk" by Neha Kumar and Agnes R. Quisumbing. Abstract: There is growing interest in the role of policy reforms to promote gender equality and empower women, two key objectives of development policy. From a policy perspective, it […]
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