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
Storage losses of crops on the farm are often assumed to be an important contributor to presumed large post-harvest losses in developing countries. However, reliable and representative estimates on these losses are often lacking.
Affordability of fruits and vegetables in Ethiopia
As in many other low-income countries, fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption is very low in Ethiopia.
This research shows how basic living conditions have improved markedly since 2000, albeit somewhat unevenly, with urban areas witnessing the greatest improvements.
Agricultural productivity in Ethiopia’s highlands, the country’s breadbasket, is threatened by severe land degradation.
The rising costs of nutritious foods in Ethiopia
Given the high prevalence of undernutrition among children in low income countries and the associated high human and eco-nomic costs (Hoddinott et al. 2013), improving nutritional out-comes must be an urgent priority.
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.
Given the importance of agriculture in developing economies, food processing industries often dominate employment and value addition in the industrial sector in these settings.
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.
Access to and governance of rural services
This study investigated access to agricultural extension and rural water supply and assessed strategies to improve the provision of these services by strengthening accountability.
Beginning in April 2008, lack of access to foreign exchange effectively stopped private sector wheat imports.
This paper examines macro-economic developments in Ethiopia between 2004/05 and 2008/09, focusing on the external accounts and the real exchange rate.
Urbanization and spatial connectivity in Ethiopia
This study uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) techniques to estimate urbanization rates in Ethiopia, using a definition of urban extents that combines city population size, along with population density and travel times in surrounding areas
Implications of accelerated agricultural growth on household incomes and poverty in Ethiopia
This paper provides details of the analysis done for Ethiopia’s background study for its implementation of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP).
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.