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Cropland expansion in Ethiopia: Economic and climatic considerations for highland agriculture

ESSP Working Paper 127, by Emily Schmidt and Timothy S. Thomas. Abstract: Agricultural GDP in Ethiopia grew at an average 7.3 percent per year between 2001/02 and 2012/13. Most of this dynamism occurred in the highlands,

Great Expectations from Ethiopia’s Wheat Initiative

Thomson Reuters Foundation News published an op-ed by several IFPRI researchers including Gashaw Tadesse Abate, Tanguy Bernard, Alan de Brauw, and Nicholas Minot, who examined the impact of Ethiopia's Wheat Initiative on farmers' yields to understand how programs can boost wheat yields in underperforming areas.

Targeting Social Transfers in Pastoralist Societies: Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme Revisited

ESSP Working Paper 124, by Jeremy Lind, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, John Hoddinott and Alemayehu S. Taffesse. Abstract: In the Ethiopian highlands, the PSNP is a successful social safety net intervention

Book launch: The Economics of Teff: Exploring Ethiopia’s Biggest Cash Crop

Teff is the single most important crop in Ethiopia: 43 percent of all farmers grow it. It is the biggest cash crop in the country—the value of its commercial surplus (CS) is equal to the value of the CS of all other cereals combined.

16th International Conference of the Ethiopian Economics Association

The 16th Ethiopian Economics Association (EEA) International Annual Conference, co-organized by IFPRI-ESSP, was held on 19-21 July, 2018 in Addis Ababa.