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Socio-economic Assessment of Legume Production, Farmer Technology Choice,Market Linkages, Institutions and Poverty in Rural Ethiopia: Institutions, Markets, Policy and Impacts Research Report No. 3

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Title Socio-economic Assessment of Legume Production, Farmer Technology Choice,Market Linkages, Institutions and Poverty in Rural Ethiopia: Institutions, Markets, Policy and Impacts Research Report No. 3
 
Creator Asfaw, S
Shiferaw, B
Simtowe, F
Muricho, G
Abate, T
Ferede, S
 
Subject Food legumes
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Today, about 1.1 billion people continue to live in extreme poverty on less than US$1 a day. Another
1.6 billion live on between US$1–2 per day. Three out of four poor people in developing countries
lived in rural areas in 2002 (WDR 2008). Most depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, directly
or indirectly. In much of sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture offers a promising opportunity for spurring
growth, overcoming poverty, and enhancing food security. Of the total population of sub-Saharan
Africa in 2003, 66% lived in rural areas. More than 90% of rural people in these regions depend on
agriculture for their livelihoods. Ryan and Spencer (2001) estimated that three-quarters of the 1.3
billion people living below the poverty line in developing countries lived in rural areas. Of these,
an estimated 66% relied on marginal lands (TAC 1997). Broad-based agricultural development
through improving the productivity, profi tability and sustainability of smallholder farming is the
main pathway out of poverty for millions of poor farm households. Agricultural productivity growth
is also vital for stimulating growth in other sectors of the economy. But accelerated growth requires
a sharp productivity increase in smallholder farming combined with more effective support to the
millions coping as subsistence farmers, many of them in marginal areas. Gallup and Sachs (2000)
estimated that, in comparison to temperate regions, productivity was 27% lower in the humid
tropics and 42% lower in the dry tropics.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2010
 
Type Monograph
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3266/1/Socio-economic_Research_Report_No-3.pdf
Asfaw, S and Shiferaw, B and Simtowe, F and Muricho, G and Abate, T and Ferede, S (2010) Socio-economic Assessment of Legume Production, Farmer Technology Choice,Market Linkages, Institutions and Poverty in Rural Ethiopia: Institutions, Markets, Policy and Impacts Research Report No. 3. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics , Nairobi, Kenya.