discussion paper
The role of agriculture in development
""This paper provides a nuanced perspective on debates about the potential for Africa’s smallholder agriculture to stimulate growth and alleviate poverty in an increasingly integrated world.
This paper uses household survey panel data of 416 rural households to study livestock asset dynamics in the north-east of Ethiopia.
"Droughts, hurricanes and other environmental shocks punctuate the lives of poor and vulnerable populations in many parts of the world.
The choices that smallholder farmers are able to make are strongly conditioned by the geographic conditions in which they live. The importance of this fact for rural development strategy is not lost on policy makers.
This study assesses which agricultural subsectors have the strongest capacity to drive economic growth and poverty reduction in Ethiopia, and what kind of agricultural and nonagricultural growth is needed to achieve the millennium development goal