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, […]
Agricultural intensification in Ethiopia: Patterns, trends, and welfare impacts
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 […]
Measuring consumption over the phone
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 […]
Irrigation and agricultural transformation in Ethiopia
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 […]
The global food price crisis threatens to cause a global nutrition crisis
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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