Productivity and efficiency of smallholder teff farmers in Ethiopia
A large proportion of Ethiopians derive their livelihood from smallholder agriculture. This has provided the impetus for the smallholder agriculture focused policies that have guided agricultural development efforts in Ethiopia over the past two decades. This work studies smallholder teff producers....
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| author | Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane Koru, Bethlehem Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum |
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| description | A large proportion of Ethiopians derive their livelihood from smallholder agriculture. This has provided the impetus for the smallholder agriculture focused policies that have guided agricultural development efforts in Ethiopia over the past two decades. This work studies smallholder teff producers. Teff is an important crop in terms of cultivated area, share of food expenditure, and contribution to gross domestic product. Despite the remarkable growth in teff production in the last decade, the drivers of this growth are not well understood. In particular, there is a lack of evidence on the contribution of improvements in productivity to this growth and the link between farm size and productivity. More-over, doubts exist on whether it is possible to sustain such growth on landholdings that are declining in size. This study employs data envelopment analysis on a recently collected large-scale farm household survey dataset to measure and explain the relative productivity and efficiency of smallholder teff producers. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1500172025-12-08T10:29:22Z Productivity and efficiency of smallholder teff farmers in Ethiopia Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane Koru, Bethlehem Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum efficiency food production teff households smallholders productivity A large proportion of Ethiopians derive their livelihood from smallholder agriculture. This has provided the impetus for the smallholder agriculture focused policies that have guided agricultural development efforts in Ethiopia over the past two decades. This work studies smallholder teff producers. Teff is an important crop in terms of cultivated area, share of food expenditure, and contribution to gross domestic product. Despite the remarkable growth in teff production in the last decade, the drivers of this growth are not well understood. In particular, there is a lack of evidence on the contribution of improvements in productivity to this growth and the link between farm size and productivity. More-over, doubts exist on whether it is possible to sustain such growth on landholdings that are declining in size. This study employs data envelopment analysis on a recently collected large-scale farm household survey dataset to measure and explain the relative productivity and efficiency of smallholder teff producers. 2015-10-02 2024-08-01T02:50:28Z 2024-08-01T02:50:28Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150017 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150258 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ethiopian Development Research Institute Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane; Koru, Bethlehem and Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum. 2015. Productivity and efficiency of smallholder teff farmers in Ethiopia. ESSP II Working Paper 79. Washington, DC and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: International Food Policy Research Institute and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150017 |
| spellingShingle | efficiency food production teff households smallholders productivity Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane Koru, Bethlehem Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum Productivity and efficiency of smallholder teff farmers in Ethiopia |
| title | Productivity and efficiency of smallholder teff farmers in Ethiopia |
| title_full | Productivity and efficiency of smallholder teff farmers in Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Productivity and efficiency of smallholder teff farmers in Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Productivity and efficiency of smallholder teff farmers in Ethiopia |
| title_short | Productivity and efficiency of smallholder teff farmers in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | productivity and efficiency of smallholder teff farmers in ethiopia |
| topic | efficiency food production teff households smallholders productivity |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150017 |
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