Chronic undernutrition in Ethiopia is widespread and many children consume highly monotonous diets.
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Understanding farmers’ technology adoption decisions: Input complementarity and heterogeneity
Agriculture growth in Africa is often characterized by low aggregate levels of technology adoption.
The study assesses factors that explain households’ perceived tenure insecurity and the demand for new formalization of land rights in Ethiopia.
This note synthesizes one of the two study tour reports written by the participating African officials.
Synopsis, Agricultural mechanization in Ethiopia: Evidence from the 2015 Feed the Future survey
This research note previews results from a study of agricultural mechanization in Ethiopia and shows that 9 percent of farmers in the Feed the Future regions of Ethiopia used mechanization at some point during the agricultural year 2014/15.
Synopsis, Diet transformation in Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s food economy is transforming fast.
Cereal production has exhibited unprecedented growth in Ethiopia, leading to important welfare improvements in the country. However, it is not well understood what the drivers have been of this growth and how it can be sustained.
Exploring child health risks of poultry keeping in Ethiopia: Insights from the 2015 Feed the Future Survey
The agricultural sector in Ethiopia and in other developing countries is increasingly asked to contribute to reducing undernutrition as well as poverty and food insecurity.
Ethiopia’s agricultural sector has recorded remarkable rapid growth in the last decade. This paper documents aspects of this growth process.
Intra-household resource allocation has a considerable role to play in nutritional status in developing countries.
A large proportion of Ethiopians derive their livelihood from smallholder agriculture.
We study the dynamics of the supply response of smallholder grain producers to changes in crop prices and costs of production in Ethiopia.
The paper revisits seasonality by assessing how the quantity and quality of diets vary across agricultural seasons in rural and urban Ethiopia.
Synopsis: Coffee value chains on the move: Evidence from smallholder coffee farmers in Ethiopia
Important changes to Ethiopia’s coffee sector have occurred in the last decade. The adoption of improved production, harvest, and post-harvest practices has been increasing with positive impacts on coffee productivity and incomes.
We estimate the impact of improved market access on household well-being and nutrition using a quasi-experimental setting in Ethiopia.
In this paper, we look at the coffee sector in Ethiopia and analyze changes and their drivers upstream in the value chain. In this study we focus on three main research questions.
Cereal production has exhibited unprecedented growth in Ethiopia, leading to important welfare improvements in the country. However, it is not well understood what the drivers have been of this growth and how it can be sustained.
Seasonality and household diets in Ethiopia
The paper revisits seasonality by assessing how the quantity and quality of diets vary across agricultural seasons in rural and urban Ethiopia.
Synopsis: An analysis of trends and determinants of child undernutrition in Ethiopia, 2000-2011
This study uses two rounds of the Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey (EDHS) to statistically analyze patterns and trends in undernutrition (child growth) in Ethiopia over the period 2000 to 2011.
We study the relationship between pre-school children’s food consumption and household agricultural production.