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 Impact of Market System Development Approaches
The Impact of Market System Development Approaches: The case of InovAgro in Mozambique By Mulubrhan Amare, Helder Zavale, Jenny Smart, and Hosaena Ghebru Market system development (MSD) approaches aim to address market failures and frictions that frequently impede adoption of modern yield-enhancing agricultural practices in sub-Saharah Africa. This brief examines the impact of an MSD […]
Social protection and resilience: The case of the productive safety net program in Ethiopia
Journal Article. Improving household resilience is becoming one of the key focus and target of social protection programs in Africa. However, there is surprisingly little direct evidence of the impacts of social protection programs on household resilience measures. We use five rounds of panel data to examine rural households’ resilience outcomes associated with participation in […]
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