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Urbanization and fertility rates in Ethiopia
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.
The Ethiopian government has been promoting a package-driven extension that combines credit, fertilizers, improved seeds, and better management practices.
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.
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.
Ethiopia’s growth and transformation plan
Crop production in Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s crop agriculture is complex, involving substantial variation in crops grown across the country’s different regions and ecologies.
Ethiopian agriculture
The opportunities and constraints facing Ethiopian agriculture are strongly influenced by conditions which vary across geographical space.
In Ethiopia, as in many other African countries, there is a pressing need to improve household food security.
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.
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.
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.
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
The migration of household members is potentially an attractive pathway out of poverty for many rural households in developing countries.
Policies and performance of Ethiopian cereal markets
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.