working paper
Farm size, food security, and welfare: Descriptive evidence from the Ethiopian highlands
essp working paper | 2017 | Pages: 21
Open Access
Citation
Abay, Kibrewossen; Hirvonen, Kalle; and Minten, Bart. 2017. Farm size, food security, and welfare: Descriptive evidence from the Ethiopian highlands. ESSP Working Paper 111. Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). http://ebrary.ifpri.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15738coll2/id/131442
This paper studies associations between farm size, food security, and welfare. Given agricultural land constraints and the rapidly increasing rural population in Ethiopia, with 26 million more people being projected to be residing in rural Ethiopia in 2030 relative to 2016, this is a major concern for the country.