One of the key questions in food policy debates in the last decades has been the role of cash cropping for achieving food security in low income countries. We revisit this question in the context of smallholder coffee production in Ethiopia.

Seasonality in agricultural production continues to shape intra-annual food availability and prices in low-income countries.

We study the relationship between pre-school children’s food consumption and household agricultural production.

Taking advantage of a unique quasi-experi-mental survey design, this study analyzes the productivity impacts of the Ethiopian land certification program by identify-ing how the investment effects (technological gains) would measure up against the

This study uses five rounds of household panel data from Tigray, Ethiopia, collected in the period 1998–2010 to assess the impacts of a land registration and certification program that aimed to strengthen tenure security and how it has contributed

This paper explores the race between these two countervailing forces, with the goal of informing two important policy questions. First, how do rural Ethiopians adapt to land constraints?

This paper uses a rich dataset from a survey undertaken by the Ethiopian Economic Association (EEA) and the Interna-tional Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in 2009 in eight woredas in seven regions of Ethiopia with a sample of 1,117 househol

There is growing interest in the role of policy reforms to promote gender equality and empower women, two key objectives of development policy.

The most recent (2010–2011) drought in the arid and semiarid lowlands (ASAL) of the Horn of Africa has rendered over 13 million people in need of food, and caused a devastating famine in southern Somalia.

Decentralized delivery of public services has been promoted as a means to enhance citizen voice and make service provision more responsive to users.

The migration of household members is potentially an attractive pathway out of poverty for many rural households in developing countries.

In this paper we examine which farmers would be early entrants into weather indexinsurance markets in Ethiopia, were such markets to develop on a large scale.

Migration and remittances can be used by rural households as a means of insurance, investment, and income augmentation.

Economic development transforms an economy from one that is largely agricultural to one that is largely manufacturing and services.