The COVID-19 crisis is having a range of impacts on food consumption and value chains everywhere—containment measures, lost incomes, and perceptions of disease risk are altering availability and consumer preferences. To understand the effects of the COVID-19 crisis on Ethiopia’s important dairy sector, we conducted a qualitative appraisal of the dairy value chain supplying Addis […]
The quest for safer foods: The COVID-19 crisis and dairy value chains in Ethiopia
The share of households consuming dairy products in Addis Ababa has dropped by 11 percentage points since the COVID-19 crisis, seemingly linked to perceived risks of consuming dairy products. All income groups declined their consumption, except for the richest quintile where the share of consuming households changed little. More than half of the consumers in […]
Fasting, food, and farming: Evidence from Ethiopian producers on the link of food taboos with dairy development
ESSP Working Paper 141, by Eline D’Haene, Senne Vandevelde, and Bart Minten. Abstract: The impact of food taboos – often because of religion – is understudied. In Ethiopia, religious fasting by Orthodox Christians is assumed to be an important impediment for the sustainable development of a competitive dairy sector and desired higher milk consumption, especially […]
Dataset: Improving the Evidence and Policies for Better Performing Livestock Systems in Ethiopia
Well-performing livestock systems matter enormously for both income and better nutritional outcomes among smallholder farmers in developing countries. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), the Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research (EIAR), and policy Studies Institute (PSI) collaborated on a project to improve the evidence and policies for better performing livestock systems in Ethiopia and […]
Transforming agri-food systems in Ethiopia: Evidence from the dairy sector
ESSP Working Paper 129, by Bart Minten, Yetimwork Habte, Seneshaw Tamru, and Agajie Tesfaye . Abstract: In the transformation of agri-food systems in developing countries, we usually see rapid changes in the livestock sector.