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Belay Mohammed

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Belay is a Research Officer in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. Belay has a diverse background that includes development research, banking, and academia. Previously, Belay spent three years as a Research Officer with IFPRI’s Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (ESSP), where he played a pivotal role in several research projects.

Prior to joining IFPRI, Belay worked as a Research Analyst with Laterite, a research and analytics firm, where he honed his skills in survey coding, data quality monitoring, data cleaning, and data analysis.

Belay also worked with Ethiopia’s leading state-owned bank, the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, where he served as a Research and Development Officer for five years. Before that, he taught economics courses to undergraduate students at Arba Minch University. He graduated from Mekelle University with a master’s degree in Economics, specializing in Development Policy Analysis.

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Resilience of urban value chains during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from dairy and vegetable chains in Ethiopia

2022Hirvonen, Kalle; Mohammed, Belay; Habte, Yetimwork; Tamru, Seneshaw; Abate, Gashaw T.; Minten, Bart
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Resilience of urban value chains during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from dairy and vegetable chains in Ethiopia

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many researchers and international organizations voiced concerns about the resilience of food value chains amid lockdowns and border closures, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (Laborde et al. 2020; Reardon, Bellemare, and Zilberman 2020; Resnick 2020). This chapter explores the pandemic’s effects on dairy and vegetable value chains in Ethiopia’s capital through mid-2021. Despite early fears about the pandemic’s impacts, survey data show that these urban value chains quickly rebounded after an initial period of fragility, demonstrating resilience over the research period. Amid tremendous uncertainty and market volatility, most value chain actors also indicated that the pandemic had not negatively affected their business activities.

Year published

2022

Authors

Hirvonen, Kalle; Mohammed, Belay; Habte, Yetimwork; Tamru, Seneshaw; Abate, Gashaw T.; Minten, Bart

Citation

Hirvonen, Kalle; Mohammed, Belay; Habte, Yetimwork; Tamru, Seneshaw; Abate, Gashaw Tadesse; and Minten, Bart. 2022. Resilience of urban value chains during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from dairy and vegetable chains in Ethiopia. In COVID-19 and global food security: Two years later, eds. John McDermott and Johan Swinnen. Part Two: Agricultural Production and Value Chains, Chapter 12, Pp. 82-86. https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294226_12.

Country/Region

Ethiopia

Keywords

Eastern Africa; Africa; Covid-19; Food Security; Poverty; Agricultural Production; Value Chains; Nutrition; Health; Social Protection; Policies; Resilience; Urban Areas; Dairy Industry; Vegetables; Agricultural Products

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294226_12 Source record

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Sustainable Healthy Diets

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Book Chapter

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Vegetable value chains during the COVID- 19 pandemic in Ethiopia: Evidence from cascading value chain surveys before and during the pandemic

2021Hirvonen, Kalle; Mohammed, Belay; Tamru, Seneshaw; Abate, Gashaw T.; Minten, Bart
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Vegetable value chains during the COVID- 19 pandemic in Ethiopia: Evidence from cascading value chain surveys before and during the pandemic

We combine in-person survey data collected in February 2020 (i.e., just before the pandemic was declared) with phone survey data collected in March 2021 (i.e., one year into the pandemic) and August 2021 (i.e., approximately 18 months into the pandemic) to study how vegetable value chains in Ethiopia have coped with the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on the major vegetable value chain connecting farmers in East Shewa zone to consumers in Addis Ababa, we applied a cascading survey approach in which we collected data at all levels of the value chain: vegetable farmers, urban wholesalers, and retailers.

Year published

2021

Authors

Hirvonen, Kalle; Mohammed, Belay; Tamru, Seneshaw; Abate, Gashaw T.; Minten, Bart

Citation

Hirvonen, Kalle; Mohammed, Belay; Tamru, Seneshaw; Abate, Gashaw Tadesse; and Minten, Bart. 2021. Vegetable value chains during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia: Evidence from cascading value chain surveys before and during the pandemic. ESSP Working Paper 159. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134768.

Country/Region

Ethiopia

Keywords

Sub-saharan Africa; Africa; Eastern Africa; Value Chains; Surveys; Covid-19; Vegetable Growing; Vegetables; Food Consumption; Food Prices; Prices

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134768 Source record

Project

Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Working Paper

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Dairy value chains during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia: Evidence from cascading value chain surveys before and during the pandemic

2021Hirvonen, Kalle; Habte, Yetmwork; Mohammed, Belay; Tamru, Seneshaw; Abate, Gashaw T.; Minten, Bart
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Dairy value chains during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia: Evidence from cascading value chain surveys before and during the pandemic

We combine in-person survey data collected in February 2018 with phone survey data collected in June and September 2021 to study how dairy value chains in Ethiopia have coped with the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on the major dairy value chain connecting farmers in North and West Shewa as well as peri-urban and urban producers in and around Addis Ababa to consumers in Addis Ababa, we applied a cascading survey approach in which we collected data at all levels of the value chain: dairy farmers, rural wholesalers, and urban retailers.

Year published

2021

Authors

Hirvonen, Kalle; Habte, Yetmwork; Mohammed, Belay; Tamru, Seneshaw; Abate, Gashaw T.; Minten, Bart

Citation

Hirvonen, Kalle; Habte, Yetmwork; Mohammed, Belay; Tamru, Seneshaw; Abate, Gashaw Tadesse; and Minten, Bart. 2021. Dairy value chains during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia: Evidence from cascading value chain surveys before and during the pandemic. ESSP Working Paper 160. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134764.

Country/Region

Ethiopia

Keywords

Sub-saharan Africa; Africa; Eastern Africa; Value Chains; Milk Production; Dairies; Milk Products; Dairy Farming; Surveys; Food Consumption; Food Prices; Dairy Farmers; Prices

Language

English

Access/Licence

Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

Links

https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134764 Source record

Project

Policies, Institutions, and Markets

Record type

Working Paper