Cereal productivity and its drivers: The case of Ethiopia
Cereal production has exhibited unprecedented growth in Ethiopia, leading to important welfare improvements in the country. However, it is not well understood what the drivers have been of this growth and how it can be sustained. In particular, there is a lack of evidence on the contribution of impr...
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Ethiopian Development Research Institute
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| author | Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane Koru, Bethlehem Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum |
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| description | Cereal production has exhibited unprecedented growth in Ethiopia, leading to important welfare improvements in the country. However, it is not well understood what the drivers have been of this growth and how it can be sustained. In particular, there is a lack of evidence on the contribution of improvements in productivity to growth in yields. Moreover, doubts exist on whether it is possible to sustain such growth on declining landholdings. We study cereal production using a unique large-scale survey of households and analyze productivity is-sues using stochastic frontier and data envelopment analyses, two conceptually dissimilar methods. Production frontier estimates indicate that modern inputs contribute significantly to improvements in yields. The two analytical methods used indicate that an average cereal producing household is less than half as efficient as optimally producing households, and, consequently, there is considerable opportunity for additional growth in cereal production in Ethiopia. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1511892025-12-08T10:29:22Z Cereal productivity and its drivers: The case of Ethiopia Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane Koru, Bethlehem Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum cereals agricultural growth sustainability farm inputs smallholders productivity Cereal production has exhibited unprecedented growth in Ethiopia, leading to important welfare improvements in the country. However, it is not well understood what the drivers have been of this growth and how it can be sustained. In particular, there is a lack of evidence on the contribution of improvements in productivity to growth in yields. Moreover, doubts exist on whether it is possible to sustain such growth on declining landholdings. We study cereal production using a unique large-scale survey of households and analyze productivity is-sues using stochastic frontier and data envelopment analyses, two conceptually dissimilar methods. Production frontier estimates indicate that modern inputs contribute significantly to improvements in yields. The two analytical methods used indicate that an average cereal producing household is less than half as efficient as optimally producing households, and, consequently, there is considerable opportunity for additional growth in cereal production in Ethiopia. 2015-05-29 2024-08-01T02:55:50Z 2024-08-01T02:55:50Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151189 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150254 Open Access application/pdf Ethiopian Development Research Institute International Food Policy Research Institute Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane; Koru, Bethlehem and Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum. 2015. Cereal productivity and its drivers: The case of Ethiopia. ESSP II Working Paper 75. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Washington, DC: Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) and International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151189 |
| spellingShingle | cereals agricultural growth sustainability farm inputs smallholders productivity Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane Koru, Bethlehem Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum Cereal productivity and its drivers: The case of Ethiopia |
| title | Cereal productivity and its drivers: The case of Ethiopia |
| title_full | Cereal productivity and its drivers: The case of Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Cereal productivity and its drivers: The case of Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cereal productivity and its drivers: The case of Ethiopia |
| title_short | Cereal productivity and its drivers: The case of Ethiopia |
| title_sort | cereal productivity and its drivers the case of ethiopia |
| topic | cereals agricultural growth sustainability farm inputs smallholders productivity |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151189 |
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