A growing literature in economics has analyzed the effects of psychological interventions designed to boost individual aspirations as a strategy to increase investments with long-term returns and thus reduce poverty. This paper reports on a randomized controlled trial evaluating a short video-based intervention designed to increase aspirations of adults in poor rural Ethiopian households, all […]
Dairy value chains during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia: Evidence from cascading value chain surveys before and during the pandemic
New ESSP Working Paper by Kalle Hirvonen, Yetmwork Habte, Belay Mohammed, Seneshaw Tamru, Gashaw Tadesse Abate and Bart Minten. Abstract: We combine in-person survey data collected in February 2018 with phone survey data collected in June and September 2021 to study how dairy value chains in Ethiopia have coped with the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on […]
Vegetable value chains during the COVID- 19 pandemic in Ethiopia: Evidence from cascading value chain surveys before and during the Pandemic
New ESSP Working Paper by Kalle Hirvonen, Belay Mohammed, Seneshaw Tamru, Gashaw Tadesse Abate and Bart Minten. Abstract: We combine in-person survey data collected in February 2020 (i.e., just before the pandemic was declared) with phone survey data collected in March 2021 (i.e., one year into the pandemic) and August 2021 (i.e., approximately 18 months […]
Maize price seasonality in Ethiopia: Does access to improved grain storage technology matter for farmers’ welfare?
African seasonal price variability for cereals is two to three times higher than price variability on the international reference market. Seasonality is even more pronounced when access to storage is limited, leading to low opportunities for price arbitrage. This leads to low incomes and food insecurity for smallholder farmers during the lean season, the “higher […]
Irrigation and agricultural transformation in Ethiopia
The climate change forecasts for Ethiopia predict higher temperature and rainfall and increased variability in rainfall with periodic severe droughts and floods. The increased weather variability poses a check on the extent of Ethiopia’s agricultural transformation unless it is supported with improved agricultural water management such as irrigation to make smallholder farming resilient to adverse […]
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