Agriculture is the mainstay of Ethiopian economy involving major source of employment and
gross national product. By African, standard rural development programme has long history …

Maize became increasingly important in the food security of Ethiopia following the major
drought and famine that occurred in 1984. More than 9 million smallholder households …

The increased adoption of fertilizer and improved seeds are two key aspects to raising the
level of land productivity in Ethiopian agriculture. However, the adoption and diffusion of …

Chickpea is a popular high-protein and high-fiber food but their potential is underutilized in
Malawi due to a lack of improved varieties and a knowledge gap. However, Malawi has …

Despite significant efforts, Africa has struggled to imitate the rapid agricultural growth that
took place in Asia in the 1960s and 1970s. As a rare but important exception, Ethiopia's …

Using household survey data from Ethiopia, this paper evaluates the impact of agricultural
cooperatives on smallholders' technical efficiency. We used propensity score matching to …

Conventional wisdom holds that Sub-Saharan African farmers use few modern inputs
despite the fact that most growth-inducing and poverty-reducing agricultural growth in the …

It has now become almost a stylized fact that sustained agricultural growth is central to rapid
poverty reduction and economic development. Yet, world poverty is largely concentrated in …

Many studies evaluating the impact of adoption on welfare focused on adoption of a single
technology giving little attention on the complementarity/substitutability among agricultural …

Climate change is expected to have particularly severe effects on poor agrarian populations.
Rural households in developing countries adapt to the risks and impacts of climate change …