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Identification of strategies to improve goat marketing in the lowlands of Ethiopia: a hedonic price analysis
This article aims at identifying factors that determine market prices of goats and analyse potential mechanisms by which smallholder goat producers could maximize their benefits. Data on 357 farm households and 2103 goat ...
An overview of a watershedbased research to mitigate land degradation & improve livelihoods: A case from the Gumara-Maksegnit watershed, North Gondar, Ethiopia
Ethiopia has great agricultural potential as it has vast area of fertile land, diverse climate, sufficient annual rainfall, & abundant labor force. However, the current performance of agric. is far below the potential, ...
Introducing new agricultural technologies and marketing strategies: A means for increasing income and nutrition of farm households in Ethiopia
Many developing regions have excellent potential agricultural resources. However, historically, the population has become so concentrated in these regions that acute poverty and malnutrition now predominate. The food ...
A Multivariate Analysis of Factors Affecting Adoption of Improved Varieties of Multiple Crops: A Case Study from Ethiopian Highlands
This paper analyzes the synergies/tradeoffs involved in the adoption of improved varieties of
multiple crops in the mixed crop-livestock production systems of the highlands of Ethiopia A
multivariate probit (MVP) model ...
Improving Agricultural Extension Systems for Wider Adoption of Technologies inception workshop: Group formation
Improving Agricultural Extension Systems for Wider Adoption of Technologies inception workshop: Group formation
Improving Agricultural Extension Systems for Wider Adoption of Technologies inception workshop agenda
Improving Agricultural Extension Systems for Wider Adoption of Technologies inception workshop agenda.
Tracking Adoption and Diffusion of Improved Chickpea Varieties at District, Zonal, Regional and National Levels in Ethiopia: Comparison of Various Approaches
Using several complementary data collection approaches including desk reviews, expert panel interviews, community and household sample survey, this study provides national, regional and zonal level estimates of adoption ...
Progress on Socio-Economic Research in the Gumara-Maksegnit watershed
The ppt descibes three major components:
1. Bio-economic modeling of the watershed to simulate system/watershed outcomes under different scenarios. (a) Aggregation based on detailed modeling of decisions by different farm ...
The effects of advisory services and technology channeling on farm yields and technical efficiency of wheat farmers in Ethiopia
Improving the performance of low-productivity smallholder farmers is a pathway with great potential for reducing poverty and enhancing food security and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa. Using experimental data from Ethiopia ...
The Future of Wheat Research and Production in Sub-Saharan Africa
The objective of this brief is to summarize the major available findings in terms of wheat foresight in Africa, including the prospects for future genetic, agronomic, seeds and political economy under different climate ...