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Local value-addition in developing countries is often aimed at the upgrading of agricultural value chains, since it is assumed that doing so will make...
Teff is the staple food of Ethiopia and its biggest cash crop. Teff is nutritious and well adapted to the growing conditions in Ethiopia, but little h...
We study the structure and performance of the coffee export sector in Ethiopia, Africas most important coffee producer, over the period 2003 to 2013...
Storage losses at the farm are often assumed to be an important contributor to presumed large postharvest losses in developing countries. However, rel...
We study post-harvest losses (PHL) in important and rapidly growing rural-urban value chains in Ethiopia. We analyze self-reported PHL from different ...
Storage losses of crops on the farm are often assumed to be an important contributor to presumed large post-harvest losses in developing countries. Ho...
There has long been concern that cash and in-kind transfers might affect prices in developing country food markets. While there have been a number of ...
Modern marketing arrangements are increasingly being implemented to assure improved food quality and safety. However, it is not well known how these m...
The impact of food taboos – often because of religion – is understudied. In Ethiopia, religious fasting by Orthodox Christians is assumed to be an...
Urbanization is happening fast in the developing world and especially so in sub-Saharan Africa where growth rates of cities are among the highest in t...
Ethiopia has experienced impressive agricultural growth and poverty reduction, stemming in part from substantial public investments in agriculture. Ye...
Many governments imposed stringent lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic as a public health measure to suppress the spread of the disease. With consu...
Ethiopia’s food systems are rapidly evolving, being driven by major contextual changes including high population growth, rapid urbanization, infrast...
In the transformation of agri-food systems in developing countries, we usually see rapid changes in the livestock sector. However, good data for clear...
We analyze the evolution of crop and livestock producer prices and wages of unskilled laborers in Ethiopia between January 2014 and January 2017 to ev...
In many developing countries in which staple foods dominate the composition of diets, higher consumption of animal-source foods (ASF) is associated wi...
Increases in cereal prices can have adverse effects on poor net food buyers. This is a particular problem in Ethiopia because of frequent natural cala...
Costs of healthy diets are worryingly rising in a number of developed and emerging economies. However, less is known on these costs for developing cou...
Livestock is important in Ethiopia’s agricultural economy as almost all farmers own some livestock. Livestock assets are valued at 720 USD per farm ...
Remote areas are often characterized by lower welfare outcomes due to economic disadvantages and higher transaction costs for trade. But their worse s...
The uptake of agricultural mechanization in Ethiopia is low with less than one percent of agricultural plots plowed with a tractor. However, in recent...
Given the high prevalence of undernutrition among children in low income countries and the associated high human and eco-nomic costs (Hoddinott et al....
Using unique nationally representative household consumption data sets that extend from 1995/96 to 2010/11, this study looks at patterns and changes i...
This policy note summarizes findings from a dairy value chain study in Uganda that documented the institutional and technological innovations associat...
Subjective well-being measures are increasingly applied in quantitative economic analyses intended to elicit non-monetary wellbeing of individuals. Ho...
This paper explores the spatial heterogeneity in dairy production in the highland production area around the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. We look...
It is feared that the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to widespread increases in global poverty and food insecurity and that these negative impacts will c...
Southeast Asia’s agricultural landscape is known for rice production in lowland areas, diverse upland areas, and the cultivation of ‘boom crops’...
This policy note presents results from five rounds of a telephone survey with food vendors conducted in different rural and urban zones of the country...