ESSP Working Paper 150, by Kalle Hirvonen, Belay Mohammed, Bart Minten, Seneshaw Tamru. Abstract: It is widely feared that the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to a significant worsening of the food security situation in low and middle-income countries. One reason for this is the disruption of food marketing systems and subsequent changes in farm and […]
Emerging medium-scale tenant farming, gig economies, and the COVID-19 disruption: Evidence from commercial vegetable clusters in Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 149, by Bart Minten, Belay Mohammed, Seneshaw Tamru. Abstract: Driven by the fast spread of private irrigation pumps, there has been a rapid expansion of intensive vegetable cultivation in the central Rift Valley in Ethiopia, making it the most important commercial vegetable production cluster in the country. Supporting that “quiet revolution” has […]
Food and nutrition security in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia during COVID-19 pandemic: July 2020 report
ESSP Working Paper 148, by Alan de Brauw, Kalle Hirvonen, and Gashaw T. Abate. Abstract: In early July 2020, we called by telephone a representative sample of nearly 600 households in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to assess income changes and household food and nutrition security status during the COVID-19 pandemic (recall period covering June). This was the […]
Incentivizing and retaining public servants in remote areas: A discrete choice experiment with agricultural extension agents in Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 147, by Mekdim D. Regassa, Gashaw T. Abate, and Zaneta Kubik. Abstract: Increased deployment of agricultural extension agents (EAs) in rural areas is grounded on their importance to spur agricultural productivity and mitigate spatial imbalance in welfare. However, high turnover and low motivation level of EAs in remote areas pose a challenge for […]
Food safety, modernization, and food prices: Evidence from milk in Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 146, by Bart Minten, Yetimwork Habte, Kaleab Baye, and Seneshaw Tamru. Abstract: Modern marketing arrangements are increasingly being implemented to assure improved food quality and safety. However, it is not well known how these modern marketing arrangements perform in early stages of roll-out. We study this issue in the case of rural-urban […]
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