ESSP Working Paper 127, by Emily Schmidt and Timothy S. Thomas. Abstract: Agricultural GDP in Ethiopia grew at an average 7.3 percent per year between 2001/02 and 2012/13. Most of this dynamism occurred in the highlands, where high population density and land scarcity begs the question of how future agricultural output can be maintained to >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Great Expectations from Ethiopia’s Wheat Initiative
Thomson Reuters Foundation News published an op-ed by several IFPRI researchers including Gashaw Tadesse Abate, Tanguy Bernard, Alan de Brauw, and Nicholas Minot, who examined the impact of Ethiopia's Wheat Initiative on farmers' yields to understand h... Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Book launch: Exploring the importance of teff to Ethiopia’s economy
Teff is the single most important crop in Ethiopia: 43 percent of all farmers grow it. It is the biggest cash crop in the country—the value of its commercial surplus (CS) is equal to the value of the CS of all other cereals combined.
Book launch: Exploring the importance of teff to Ethiopia’s economy
Teff is the single most important crop in Ethiopia: 43 percent of all farmers grow it. It is the biggest cash crop in the country—the value of its commercial surplus (CS) is equal to the value of the CS of all other cereals combined. Teff’s production value is approximately one third higher than even that >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
15th Annual Conference of the Ethiopian Economics Association
The Ethiopian Economics Association (EEA) International Annual Conference, co-organized by IFPRI-ESSP, was held on 20-22 July, 2017 in Addis Ababa.
