Nominal cereal prices in Ethiopia in July 2019 were significantly higher than the year before – maize prices had risen by 32 percent; sorghum by 39 percent; teff by 35 percent; and wheat by 2 percent.
Search
Understanding urban consumers’ food choice behavior in Ethiopia: Promoting demand for healthy foods
Data from 996 Ethiopian households...
Climate change impacts on crop yields in Ethiopia
We present results of model simulations of maize, wheat, and sorghum yields in Ethiopia through 2085.
Geography of plant breeding systems, agroclimatic similarity, and agricultural productivity: Evidence from Nigeria
Agricultural productivity & technical efficiency at the agricultural household level is positively affected by similar agroclimatic conditions between locations of agricultural households & major plant breeding institutes.
Water, sanitation, & hygiene practices mediate the association between women's empowerment and child length for‐age z‐scores in Nepal
Empowered women show better WASH practices than nonempowered women in Nepal, which translates into better child nutrition outcomes.
Farm diversity, maize stock in the household, household asset index, & agro‐ecological zone were the main predictors of hemoglobin and anemia among children & adolescents in Ghana.
Synopsis: Ethiopia's spatial and structural transformation: Public policy and drivers of change
This research note evaluates Ethiopia’s demographic shift over the last four decades while also evaluating potential urbanization trends 20 years into the future.1 Propelling Ethiopia’s urban growth is new secondary city development, ongoing popul
In the transformation of agri-food systems in developing countries, we usually see rapid changes in the livestock sector. However, good data for clearly understanding this transformation are often lacking, especially so in Africa.
Credit markets are key instruments by which liquidity constrained smallholder farmers may finance productivity investments.
Cropland expansion in Ethiopia: Economic and climatic considerations for highland agriculture
Agricultural GDP in Ethiopia grew at an average 7.3 percent per year between 2001/02 and 2012/13.
Increases in cereal prices can have adverse effects on poor net food buyers. This is a particular problem in Ethiopia because of frequent natural calamities – especially droughts – that lead to significant price hikes.
Weather risk: How does it change the yield benefits of nitrogen fertilizer and improved maize varieties in sub‐Saharan Africa?
How does it change the yield benefits of nitrogen fertilizer and improved maize varieties in Africa south of the Sahara?
Economists typically default to the assumption that cash is always preferable to an in-kind transfer. We extend the classic Southworth (1945) framework to predict under what conditions this assumption holds.