Agriculture is essential to the economies of East African countries. Climate change, with its effects on temperature and precipitation, threatens this important economic activity. How to foster agricultural development and food security in East Africa as the effects of climate change become more serious is the subject of the study East African Agriculture and Climate […]
Building Smarter Subsidies: Input Subsides in Africa South of the Sahara
The flagship journal of the International Association of Agricultural Economists (IAAE), Agricultural Economics, released a Special Issue on Input Subsidy Programs (ISPs) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The main motivation for the special issue is to provide African policy makers and development partners with evidence and insight from high-quality research on the impact of Input Subsidy Programs (ISP) […]
Saving for a Sunny Day
This article was originally posted on IFPRI's Insights website. Can insurance help Ethiopian farmers survive the droughts that are likely to come? Recently, scientists uncovered the inconvenient truth that drought in eastern Africa is likely here to stay. They placed the blame squarely on climate change—namely, on the linkage between the warming Indian Ocean and […]
Land Constraints and Agricultural Intensification in Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 58 "Land constraints and agricultural intensification in Ethiopia" by Derek Headey, Mekdim Dereje, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, Anna Josephson and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse . Abstract: Highland Ethiopia is one of the most densely populated regions of Africa and has long been associated with both Malthusian disasters and Boserupian agricultural intensification. This paper explores the race […]
2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI)
The International Food Policy Research Institute, Concern Worldwide Ethiopia, and Welthungerhilfe have published ‘The Global Hunger Index Report 2013’ on October 14, 2013. The report comprehensively measure and track global hunger. The Index combines three equally weighted indicators and ranks countries on the overall score. The three indicators are: the proportion of people who are […]
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