Agricultural Intensification In Ethiopia
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Gender Based Constraints And Opportunities To Agricultural Intensification In Ethiopia A Systematic Review
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Author : Mulema, Annet
language : en
Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Release Date : 2016-08-31
Gender Based Constraints And Opportunities To Agricultural Intensification In Ethiopia A Systematic Review written by Mulema, Annet and has been published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-31 with categories.
Land Constraints And Agricultural Intensification In Ethiopia
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Author : Derek Headey
language : en
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Land Constraints And Agricultural Intensification In Ethiopia written by Derek Headey and has been published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with Social Science categories.
Highland Ethiopia is one of the most densely populated regions of Africa and has long been associated with both Malthusian disasters and Boserupian agricultural intensification. This paper explores the race between these two countervailing forces, with the goal of informing two important policy questions. First, how do rural Ethiopians adapt to land constraints? And second, do land constraints significantly influence welfare outcomes in rural Ethiopia? To answer these questions we use a recent household survey of high-potential areas. We first show that farm sizes are generally very small in the Ethiopian highlands and declining over time, with young rural households facing particularly severe land constraints. We then ask whether smaller and declining farm sizes are inducing agricultural intensification, and if so, how. We find strong evidence in favor of the Boserupian hypothesis that land-constrained villages typically use significantly more purchased input costs per hectare and more family labor, and achieve higher maize and teff yields and high gross income per hectare. However, although these higher inputs raise gross revenue, we find no substantial impact of greater land constraints on net farm income per hectare once family labor costs are accounted for. Moreover, farm sizes are strongly positively correlated with net farm income, suggesting that land constraints are an important cause of rural poverty. We conclude with some broad policy implications of our results.
Agricultural Intensification In Ethiopia Patterns Trends And Welfare Impacts
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Author : Berhane, Guush
language : en
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release Date : 2022-12-30
Agricultural Intensification In Ethiopia Patterns Trends And Welfare Impacts written by Berhane, Guush and has been published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-30 with Political Science categories.
Ethiopia has made substantial efforts in the last three decades to increase agricultural productivity through modern input intensification and stimulate overall economic growth. Despite the high growth rates in recent decade, Ethiopia’s overall intensification and yield levels remained below what is considered optimal. This study examines the patterns, trends, and drivers of agricultural intensification and productivity growth during the recent decade (2012 - 2019) using three rounds of representative household data collected from the four main agriculturally important regions of the country. The descriptive results indicate a positive trend in both the adoption rate and intensity of inputs and output, albeit from a low base compared to other contexts and with considerable heterogeneity by access to information, rainfall levels and variability, labor, soil quality, remoteness, among others. The econometric results show significant association between intensification, yield growth, household dietary diversity (a proxy measure for food and nutrition security), and consumer durables. However, the results on the association between current yield levels and per capita consumption expenditures are mixed (i.e., while an increase in cereal yield only improve food consumption expenditures, an increase in cash crops yield mainly improve non-food consumption expenditures). In sum, while the increasing input intensification and the resulting yield gains are associated with improvement in household diets and consumer durables, it falls short to have strong impact on incomes (as measured by total consumption expenditures), indicating that more efforts have to be made to see meaningful impacts on higher order outcomes. Additional welfare improving productivity gains through increased input intensifications may require investments to put in place appropriate fertilizer blends linked with localized soil nutrient requirements, investments to generate locally suited improved seeds and appropriate mechanisms to reach farmers, ways to mitigate production (rainfall) risk, and investments to remodel Ethiopia’s extension system to provided much needed technical support to farmers on production methods.
Agricultural Intensification In Ethiopia And Mali
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Author : Grace Carswell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Agricultural Intensification In Ethiopia And Mali written by Grace Carswell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Agricultural intensification categories.
Agricultural Intensification In Ethiopia
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Author : Guush Berhane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Agricultural Intensification In Ethiopia written by Guush Berhane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Cities And Agricultural Transformation In Africa
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Author : Vandercasteelen, Joachim
language : en
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release Date : 2016-07-01
Cities And Agricultural Transformation In Africa written by Vandercasteelen, Joachim and has been published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-01 with Political Science categories.
Due to the rapid growth of cities in Africa, many more farmers are now living in rural hinterlands in relatively close proximity to cities where many provide food to urban residents. However, empirical evidence on how urbanization affects these farmers is scarce. To fill this gap, this paper explores the relationship between proximity to a city and the production behavior of rural staple crop producers. In particular, we analyze data from teff producing farmers in major producing areas around Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. We find that farmers located closer to Addis Ababa face higher wages and land rental prices, and because they receive higher teff prices they have better incentives to intensify production. Moreover, we observe that modern input use, land and labor productivity, and profitability in teff production improve with urban proximity. This urban proximity has a strong and significant effect on these aspects of teff production, possibly related to the use of more formal factor markets, lower transaction costs in crop production and marketing, and better access to information. In contrast, we do not find a strong and positive relationship between rural population density increases and agricultural transformation – increased population density seems to lead to immiserizing effects in these settings. Our results show that urban proximity should be considered as an important determinant of the process of agricultural intensification and transformation in developing countries.
Sustainable Intensification Of Agriculture In Ethiopia
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Author : Agricultural Economics Society of Ethiopia. Conference
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Sustainable Intensification Of Agriculture In Ethiopia written by Agricultural Economics Society of Ethiopia. Conference and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Agriculture categories.
Secondary Towns Agricultural Prices And Intensification Evidence From Ethiopia
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Author : Vandercasteelen, Joachim
language : en
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release Date : 2017-03-01
Secondary Towns Agricultural Prices And Intensification Evidence From Ethiopia written by Vandercasteelen, Joachim and has been published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-01 with Political Science categories.
Urbanization is happening fast in the developing world and especially so in sub-Saharan Africa where growth rates of cities are among the highest in the world. While cities and, in particular, secondary towns, where most of the urban population in sub-Saharan Africa resides, affect agricultural practices in their rural hinterlands, this relationship is not well understood. To fill this gap, we develop a conceptual model to analyze how farmers’ proximity to cities of different sizes affects agricultural prices and intensification of farming. We then test these predictions using large-scale survey data from producers of teff, a major staple crop in Ethiopia, relying on unique data on transport costs and road networks and implementing an array of econometric models. We find that agricultural price behavior and intensification is determined by proximity to a city and the type of city. While proximity to cities has a strong positive effect on agricultural output prices and on uptake of modern inputs and yields on farms, the effects on prices and intensification measures are lower for farmers in the rural hinterlands of secondary towns compared to primate cities.
Agricultural Intensification And Efficiency In The West African Savannahs
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Author : I. Okike
language : en
Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Agricultural Intensification And Efficiency In The West African Savannahs written by I. Okike and has been published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Agricultural intensification categories.
Irrigation And Agricultural Transformation In Ethiopia
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Author : Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework
language : en
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release Date : 2023-01-24
Irrigation And Agricultural Transformation In Ethiopia written by Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework and has been published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-24 with Political Science categories.
Climate change forecasts for Ethiopia predict higher temperature and rainfall and increased variability in rainfall with periodic severe droughts and floods. The increased weather variability threatens the extent of Ethiopia’s agricultural transformation unless it is supported with improved agricultural water management such as irrigation to make smallholder farming resilient to adverse weather events. This study analyzes the role of irrigation on agricultural transformation in Ethiopia by systematically comparing households with irrigated and non-irrigated plots on key agricultural transformation and welfare indictors (i.e., intensification, commercialization, and consumption expenditures). The study used a representative data from the four main agriculturally important regions of the country and employed an endogenous switching regression approach that addresses potential biases from placement of irrigation schemes and the self-selection of farmers to adopt irrigation on their plots. This approach allows for counterfactual analysis on the effect of irrigation if it is adopted on plots or in households without current irrigation as well as the counterfactual realizations of outcome variables if irrigated plots were not irrigated or irrigating households were relying only on rainfed agriculture. The main results show a positive and significant effects of irrigation on intensification, commercialization, and household welfare. Specifically, the results show that farm households with irrigated plots (i) use more fertilizer and agrochemicals, (ii) sell sizable shares of their harvest, and (iii) spend more on food and non-food expenditures. The counterfactual analysis on what would have been the effect of irrigation on currently non-irrigated plots indicate a stronger result across our outcome indicators which further suggest the importance of expanding irrigation in accelerating agricultural transformation and welfare improvement in Ethiopia.