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| Byerlee, Derek R.; Spielman, David J.; Alemu, Dawit; Gautam, Madhur. |
| Despite more than a decade of policies placing high priority on cereal intensification, backed by one of the highest rates of public expenditures on agricultural in Africa, Ethiopia has yet to see payoffs in terms of higher and more stable cereal yields, reduced dependency on food aid, improved food security, and lower consumer prices for staples. There is understandable concern about the performance, efficiency and sustainability of the agricultural sector, specifically in terms of the current systems for providing extension services, improved seed, fertilizer, and credit. This paper aims to illuminate possible solutions available to improving the prospects for cereal intensification in Ethiopia. The paper traces the largely state-led policies that have... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural development; Agricultural extension; Fertilizer; Seed markets; Ethiopia; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42406 |
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| Holden, Stein T.; Shiferaw, Bekele A.; Pender, John L.. |
| Soil fertility and the lack of fertilizer use in Africa are frequently discussed topics. The problems of land degradation and low agricultural productivity, which result in food insecurity and poverty, are particularly severe in the rural highlands of Ethiopia. In many areas, a downward spiral of land degradation and poverty appears to be occurring. Finding solutions to these problems requires identifying effective entry points for farmers, governments, and civil society organizations, and understanding the potential impacts and tradeoffs that are likely to arise from alternative interventions. This report seeks to improve that understanding, using a bioeconomic model of land management and agricultural production developed for a community that is fairly... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Agriculture; Economic aspects; Ethiopia; Food supply; Sustainable agriculture; Sustainable development; Government policy; Food Security and Poverty; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/37890 |
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| Alemu, Zerihun Gudeta; Worako, Tadesse Kumma. |
| This study focused on the interrelationships among producer, auction and world prices. In so doing, it criticized previous studies and extended technique developed by Hansen (1999) to handle inferential biases occurring as a result of specification errors. The following results were found: unidirectional transmission of shocks from the world price to the auction price and then to the producer price; asymmetries in price transmissions and adjustments in the auction market; weak interrelationship between producer and world prices causing producer price to be less responsive to changes in the world prices. In general, results imply that coffee growers’ benefit little from positive changes in the world price compared with participants in the auction markets.... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Coffee; Ethiopia; Threshold vector error correction models; Nonlinearity; Demand and Price Analysis. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/51085 |
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| Schussler, Lennart. |
| Over the past decade, coffee producers have been struggling with the world market’s low and unstable coffee prices. Some coffee producing countries try to overcome this crisis by moving from pure commodity exports to higher-price exports of niche market quality products, like “single-origin coffee”, protected by intellectual property tools. Such protection can take the form of trademarks or geographical indications. At present within the single-origin coffee sector, a trend to use the latter form can be observed. For example, “Café de Colombia” was registered as a Protected Geographical Indication under Council Regulation (EC) No 510/2006. Another recent example is the Ethiopian Fine Coffee Trademarking and Licensing Initiative. In order to protect its... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Columbia; Ethiopia; Geographical indications; Single-origin coffee; Trademarks; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48799 |
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| Bernard, Tanguy; Gabre-Madhin, Eleni Z.; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum. |
| This paper examines the impact of cooperatives on smallholder commercialization of cereals, using detailed household data from rural Ethiopia. We review the involvement of cooperatives, in terms of who participates and where they are located. We then use the strong government role in promoting the establishment of cooperatives to assume that the decision of where to establish a cooperative is largely driven by external considerations, and is thus exogenous to the members themselves justifying the use of propensity-score matching in order to compare households that are cooperative members to similar households in comparable areas without cooperatives. Four conclusions are derived from the analysis. First, despite the spread of cooperatives – they existed in... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Smallholders’ marketing; Cooperatives; Ethiopia; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42377 |
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| Davis, Kristin E.; Ekboir, Javier M.; Mekasha, Wendmsyamregne; Ochieng, Cosmas M.O.; Spielman, David J.; Zerfu, Elias. |
| This paper examines the role of postsecondary agricultural education and training (AET) in Sub-Saharan Africa in the context of the region’s agricultural innovation systems. Specifically, the paper looks at how AET in Sub-Saharan Africa can contribute to agricultural development by strengthening innovative capabilities, or the ability to introduce new products and processes that are socially or economically relevant to smallholder farmers and other agents in the agricultural sector. Using AET in Ethiopia and Mozambique as case studies, the paper argues that while AET is conventionally viewed in terms of its role in building human and scientific capital, it also has a vital role to play in building the capacity of organizations and individuals to transmit... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural education and training; Innovation systems; Sub-Saharan Africa; Ethiopia; Mozambique; Labor and Human Capital. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42363 |
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