ESSP Working Paper 134, by Fantu Nisrane Bachewe and Bart Minten. Abstract: Costs of healthy diets are worryingly rising in a number of developed and emerging economies. However, less is known on these costs for developing countries. Using price data from a large number of markets in Ethiopia, we find that real prices of all >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Geography of public service delivery in rural Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 133, by Gashaw T. Abate, Mekdim Dereje, Kalle Hirvonen, and Bart Minten. Abstract: Remote areas are often characterized by lower welfare outcomes due to economic disadvantages and higher transaction costs for trade. But their worse situation may also be linked to worse public service delivery. Relying on large household surveys in rural >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Performance of direct seed marketing pilot program in Ethiopia: Lessons for scaling-up
ESSP Working Paper 132, by Leulsegged Kasa Mekonen, Nicholas Minot, James Warner, and Gashaw Tadesse Abate. Abstract: This study evaluates the impact in the main cropping season of 2015 of a new approach to the distribution of improved seed in Ethiopia, known as Direct Seed Marketing (DSM). Under DSM, seed producers are allowed to sell >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
Promoting fruit and vegetable intake in urban Ethiopia: An experiment using video-based communication
MTID Project Note, by Gashaw Tadesse Abate, Kaleb Bayeh, Alan de Brauw, and Kalle Hirvonen. Abstract: This pilot experiment aims to address the knowledge gaps on the nutrition and health benefits of fruits and vegetables to help find ways to increase both consumption frequency and amounts at the house-hold level. While there are already commendable >> Read more Source: Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
IFPRI Ghana 2019-04-09 09:58:16
by Maxwell Young Ghana’s steady economic growth since the 1980s has helped reduce poverty and improve food security and is considered one of the development success stories of Africa south of the Sahara. Ghana’s agricultural transformation—improvements in farming technology, value chains, crop diversity, and other changes—has been key to that growth. Less clear, however, is […] Source: IFPRI Ghana
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