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Agricultural intensification in Ethiopia: Patterns, trends, and welfare impacts

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Title Agricultural intensification in Ethiopia: Patterns, trends, and welfare impacts
 
Creator Berhane, Guush
Abate, Gashaw Tadesse
Wolle, Abdulazize
 
Subject households
data analysis
data collection
rainfall patterns
yield factors
productivity
growth
production functions
input output analysis
labour
soil quality
econometrics
yield increases
fertilizers
production
risk
intensive farming
 
Description This study examined the patterns, trends, and drivers of agricultural intensification and productivity growth during the recent decade (2012 - 2019) using three rounds of household data collected from four agricultural regions of Ethiopia. The descriptive results indicate a positive trend both in adoption and intensity of inputs and outputs, albeit from a low base and with considerable heterogeneity by access to information, rainfall levels and variability, labor, soil quality, and remoteness, among others. The econometric results show significant association between intensification, yield growth, household dietary diversity, and consumer durables. The results on the association between current yield levels and per capita consumption expenditures are however mixed (i.e., while an increase in cereal yield improves food consumption expenditures, an increase in cash crop yield improves only non-food consumption expenditures). In sum, while the increasing input intensification and the resulting yield gains are associated with improvements in household diets and consumer durables, it falls short to have strong impact on incomes (as measured by total consumption expenditures), indicating that additional efforts must be made to see meaningful impacts on higher order outcomes. Additional welfare improv-ing productivity gains through increased input intensification may require investments in appropriate fer-tilizer blends; investments in improved seeds (to accelerate varietal turnover), ways to mitigate production (rainfall) risk, and investments to remodel Ethiopia’s extension system to provide much needed technical support to farmers on production methods.
 
Date 2022-12-02
2023-01-17T08:13:59Z
2023-01-17T08:13:59Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier Berhane, Guush; Abate, Gashaw Tadesse; and Wolle, Abdulazize. 2022. Agricultural intensification in Ethiopia: Patterns, trends, and welfare impacts. IFPRI Project Note October 2022. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136465
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127250
https://www.ifpri.org/publication/agricultural-intensification-ethiopia-patterns-trends-and-welfare-impacts
https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.136465
 
Language en
 
Relation IFPRI Project Note
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 6 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute