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.
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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
Synopsis: How should rural financial cooperatives be best organized? Evidence from Ethiopia
What is the optimal size and composition of rural financial cooperatives (RFCs)?
Synopsis: An assessment of the livestock economy in mixed crop-livestock production systems in Ethiopia
The livestock sub-sector has contributed little to the remarkable economic growth recorded in Ethiopia in the last decade.
Synopsis: The impact of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme on the nutritional status of children: 2008–2012
Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) is a large-scale social protection intervention aimed at improving food security and stabilizing asset levels.
We use qualitative and quantitative information from a number of datasets to study the adoption patterns and labor productivity impacts of herbicide use by farmers in Ethiopia.
Ethiopia’s economy is rapidly transforming. However, the extent to which this is affecting off-farm income and labor markets in rural areas is not well understood.
Based on a unique large-scale data set on teff production and marketing, Ethiopia’s most important cash crop, we study post-harvest losses in rural-urban value chains, specifically between producers and urban retailers in the capital, Addis Ababa.
Synopsis: Row planting teff in Ethiopia: Impact on farm-level profitability and labor allocation
Improved technologies are increasingly being promoted to farmers in sub-Saharan-African countries to address low agricultural productivity in their staple crops.
Due to the rapid growth of cities in Africa, many more farmers are now living in rural hinterlands in relatively close proximity to cities. However, empirical evidence on how urbanization affects these farmers is scarce.
The findings from this study reveal that, on an economy-wide ba-sis, the benefits of PSNP significantly exceed the cost of PSNP transfers.
We analyze the evolution of crop and livestock producer prices and wages of unskilled laborers in Ethiopia over the January 2014 to January 2016 period, during which time the country was massively impacted by El Niño triggered droughts.
Using household survey data from 2013 covering more than 7,000 households in five regions of Ethiopia, we investigate the impact of women’s empowerment in agriculture on the nutritional outcomes of children and women.
Seasonality in agricultural production continues to shape intra-annual food availability and prices in low-income countries.
Ethiopia’s agricultural sector has recorded remarkable rapid growth in the last decade. This note documents aspects of this growth process.
Synopsis: Household perception and demand for better protection of land rights in Ethiopia
This study assesses factors that explain households’ perceived land tenure insecurity and the demand for new formalization of land rights in Ethiopia.
We estimate the impact of improved market access on household well-being and nutrition using a quasi-experimental setting in Ethiopia.
Chronic undernutrition in Ethiopia is widespread and many children consume highly monotonous diets.
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.