IFPRI’s 2012 Global Food Policy Report reviews major food policy developments like new sources of agricultural growth, the outcomes of Rio+20 and the progress toward a green economy, the move from attention to action on gender, the prospects for youth employment in agriculture in Africa, the evolution of the US and EU support for their […]
Foreign Exchange Rationing, Wheat Markets, and Food Security in Ethiopia
ESSP II Research Note 4 "Foreign Exchange Rationing, Wheat Markets, and Food Security in Ethiopia" by Paul Dorosh and Hashim Ahmed. Summary of ESSP II Discussion Paper 4. Beginning in April 2008, lack of access to foreign exchange effectively stopped private sector wheat imports. Government imports and subsidized sales to millers and households in late […]
Food security without food transfers? A CGE Analysis for Ethiopia of the Different Food Security Impacts of Fertilizer Subsidies and Locally Sourced Food Transfers
ESSP II Working Paper 29 "Food security without food transfers? A CGE Analysis for Ethiopia of the Different Food Security Impacts of Fertilizer Subsidies and Locally Sourced Food Transfers" by Stefano A. Caria, Seneshaw Tamru, and Gera Bizuneh. Abstract: Both availability and access issues underpin Ethiopia’s food security challenges. The country is mostly dependent on […]
Food Security Interventions When “Everyone is Poor”: The Case of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme
ESSP II Working Paper 24 "Targeting Food Security Interventions When “Everyone is Poor”: The Case of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme" by Sarah Coll-Black, Daniel O. Gilligan, John Hoddinott, Neha Kumar, Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, and William Wiseman. Download the pdf (474KB). Find more ESSP Working Papers on the Publication page.
Foreign Exchange Rationing, Wheat Markets, and Food Security in Ethiopia
ESSP II Working Paper 4 "Foreign Exchange Rationing, Wheat Markets, and Food Security in Ethiopia" by Paul Dorosh and Hashim Ahmed. Abstract: In spite of remarkable growth in Ethiopia’s agricultural production and overall real incomes (GDP/capita) from 2004/05 to 2008/09, prices of major cereals (teff, maize, wheat, and sorghum) have fluctuated sharply in both nominal […]