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Urbanization and economic transformation

Strong economic growth in urban areas has not led to rapid urbanization in Ethiopia, possibly as a result of prevailing land tenure policies.

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Cereal production and technology adoption in Ethiopia

The Ethiopian government has been promoting a package-driven extension that combines credit, fertilizers, improved seeds, and better management practices.

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Agricultural extension services and gender equality

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

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Food security without food transfers?

Both availability and access issues underpin Ethiopia’s food security challenges. The country is mostly dependent on drought-exposed, rain fed agriculture, and high transaction costs inhibit trade in staples.

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Crop production in Ethiopia

Ethiopia’s crop agriculture is complex, involving substantial variation in crops grown across the country’s different regions and ecologies.

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Ethiopian agriculture

The opportunities and constraints facing Ethiopian agriculture are strongly influenced by conditions which vary across geographical space.

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Targeting food security interventions when “everyone is poor”

In Ethiopia, as in many other African countries, there is a pressing need to improve household food security.

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Foodgrain consumption and calorie intake patterns in Ethiopia

Levels and composition of food consumption are major determinants of the nutritional wellbeing of individuals, which in turn, have important implications for health, productivity, and income.

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Food demand elasticities in Ethiopia

How households adjust their consumption in response to changes in prices and income is crucial determinant of the effects of various shocks to market prices and commodity supplies.

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Livestock production and marketing

The livestock is an important sub-sector within Ethiopia’s economy in terms of its contributions to both agricultural value-added and national GDP.

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Sources of inefficiency and growth in agricultural output in subsistence agriculture

Studying the sources of growth in agricultural production, examining the extent of inefficiency, and identifying the sources of such inefficiency, is an important step forward to improve the livelihood of subsistence farm households in developing

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Seed, fertilizer, and agricultural extension in Ethiopia

Over the past four decades, decision-makers in Ethiopia have pursued a range of policies and investments to boost agricultural production and productivity, particularly with respect to the food staple crops that are critical to reducing poverty in th
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Policies and performance of Ethiopian cereal markets

Cereal production and marketing is the single largest sub-sector within Ethiopia’s agriculture. It dominates in terms of its share in rural employment, agricultural land use, and calorie intake, as well as its contribution to national income.
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Adoption of weather index insurance

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.