Despite several studies showing the effect of access to markets and weather conditions on crop production, we know quite little on whether and how livestock production systems respond to variation in weather risk and access to markets. In this paper, we study whether and how livestock production responds to access to markets and varying weather […]
Access to markets, weather risk, and livestock production decisions: Evidence from Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 138, by Kibrom A. Abay, Nathaniel D. Jensen. Abstract: Despite several studies showing the effect of access to markets and weather conditions on crop production, we know quite little on whether and how livestock production systems respond to variation in weather risk and access to markets. In this paper, we study whether and […]
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 […]
ESSP-EEA Pre-Conference Training 2019
The Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (ESSP) of IFPRI and the Ethiopian Economics Association (EEA) organized three short term trainings on; Introduction to STATA (with applications to the Dairy sector), Market Policy and Value Chain Analysis (with a focus on Agriculture and Livestock) and Efficiency and Productivity Analysis
Building Food Security Resilience through Research for Development
Ending global hunger is one the greatest challenges and opportunities of our time and USAID’s Feed the Future program is working to solve it through partnerships and innovation. The Feed the Future Innovation Labs conducted a regional partners’ meeting in Addis Ababa