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Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP): soil carbon and fertility impact assessment
(Cornell University, 2016)
Ethiopia’s climate smart initiative (CSI) aims to integrate the implications of climate change into Productive Safety Net Programs (PSNP) activities, and systems to strengthen this important social safety net program, and ...
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A diagnostic study of crop-livestock interactions: in the Rift Valley and the western mid-highland areas of Ethiopia / Alemu Tolemariam and Moti Jaleta
(CIMMYT, 2015)
This report analyzes crop-livestock interactions in maize-based, mixed farming systems in the Rift Valley and the western, mid-highland areas of Ethiopia. These areas are known for their maize-based crop-livestock farming ...
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Characterization of Maize Producing Households in Adami Tulu - Jido Kombolcha and Adama Districts in Ethiopia
(CIMMYT, 2010)
Maize is an important cereal crop in Ethiopia as a source of both food and cash and represents a shift in farmers’ choice of crops. In terms of area coverage on a national basis, it is next to teff (CSA 2007). Of all food ...
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Analytic overview, 2018: opportunities for strengthening gender and social equity in Ethiopia’s wheat sector
(CIMMYT; Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, 2018)
Agriculture makes up 35.8 percent of Ethiopia’s GDP and employs 72.7 percent of its 102 million people, yet agriculture is unmechanized and the country relies heavily on food imports. Gender inequality contributes to low ...
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Meteorological drought assessment in north east highlands of Ethiopia
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018)
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the patterns and trends of drought incidence in north east highlands of Ethiopia using monthly rainfall record for the period 1984-2014. Design/methodology/approach Standard ...
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Sheep market participation of rural households in Western Ethiopia
(Academic Journals, 2012)
Sheep production is an integral part of the subsistence crop-livestock based livelihoods of the Ethiopian highlands and plays a crucial role in economic development and poverty reduction. This study analyzed determinants ...
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Price co-integration analyses of food crop markets: The case of wheat and teff commodities in Northern Ethiopia
(Academic Journals, 2012)
This paper examines the role of market price information dissemination on the co-integration of grain market prices in Northern Ethiopia. Results are based on bi-monthly retail price data on wheat and teff commodities ...
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Land ownership and technology adoption revisited: improved maize varieties in Ethiopia
(Elsevier, 2018)
The lack of land ownership can discourage agricultural technology adoption, yet there is scarce evidence of the impact of land rental contracts on the adoption of improved crop varieties in developing countries. The current ...
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Adoption and continued use of improved maize seeds: Case study of Central Ethiopia
(Academic Journals, 2010)
The literature on agricultural technology is limited on the issue of the continued use of an agricultural technology after it is adopted. This paper analyzes the factors that explain adoption as well as continued use of ...
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Interdependence of smallholders' net market positions in mixed crop-livestock systems of Ethiopian highlands
(Academic Journals, 2012)
Using simultaneous-equation models, this paper examines whether there is interdependence between smallholder?s net market positions in crop and live animal markets under mixed crop-livestock system. Household level data ...