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Policies to promote cereal intensification in Ethiopia: the search for appropriate public and private roles.
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The authors examines the evolving roles of the public and private sectors in intensifying cereal production in Ethiopia and finds that while Ethiopia has an admirable record of supporting agriculture, its state-led policies has now outlived their usefulness and raises concern about the performance of the agricultural sector, specifically in terms of the systems for providing improved seed, fertilizer, credit, and extension services.About:
This article is published in Food Policy.The article was published on 2010-06-01. It has received 201 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Food prices & Private sector.read more
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Crops that feed the world 6. Past successes and future challenges to the role played by maize in global food security
TL;DR: In this paper, the Green Revolution (GR) has played an outstanding role in feeding a hungry world and improving global food security, and it also generated its own environmental problems also productivity increase is now slow or static, and achieving the productivity gains needed to ensure food security will therefore require more than a repeat performance of the GR of the past, while the key challenges today is to replace these varieties with new ones for better sustainability.
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Pursuing sustainable productivity with millions of smallholder farmers.
Zhenling Cui,Hongyan Zhang,Xinping Chen,Chaochun Zhang,Wenqi Ma,Chengdong Huang,Weifeng Zhang,Guohua Mi,Yuxin Miao,Xiaolin Li,Qiang Gao,Jianchang Yang,Zhaohui Wang,Youliang Ye,Shiwei Guo,Jianwei Lu,Jianliang Huang,Shihua Lv,Yixiang Sun,Yuanying Liu,Xianlong Peng,Jun Ren,Shiqing Li,Xiping Deng,Xiaojun Shi,Qiang Zhang,Zhiping Yang,Li Tang,Changzhou Wei,Liangliang Jia,Jiwang Zhang,Mingrong He,Yanan Tong,Qiyuan Tang,Xuhua Zhong,Zhaohui Liu,Ning Cao,Chang-Lin Kou,Hao Ying,Yulong Yin,Xiaoqiang Jiao,Qingsong Zhang,Mingsheng Fan,Rongfeng Jiang,Fusuo Zhang,Zhengxia Dou +45 more
TL;DR: The outcome of concerted efforts in engaging millions of Chinese smallholder farmers to adopt enhanced management practices for greater yield and environmental performance is reported and the potential impacts of implementing theEnhanced management practices on China’s food security and sustainability outlook are demonstrated.
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The Impact of Cooperatives on Agricultural Technology Adoption: Empirical Evidence from Ethiopia
Degnet Abebaw,Mekbib G. Haile +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of cooperatives on adoption of agricultural technologies was investigated using cross-sectional data and a propensity score matching technique, and it was found that cooperative members are more likely to be male-headed households, have better access to agricultural extension services, possess oxen, participate in off-farm work, and have leadership experience.
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The impact of cooperatives on agricultural technology adoption: Empirical evidence from Ethiopia
Degnet Abebaw,Mekbib G. Haile +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of cooperatives on adoption of agricultural technologies was investigated using cross-sectional data and a propensity score matching technique, and it was found that cooperative members are more likely to be male-headed households, have better access to agricultural extension services, possess oxen, participate in off-farm work, and have leadership experience.
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Understanding the adoption of a portfolio of sustainable intensification practices in eastern and southern Africa.
TL;DR: This article explored smallholder farmers' adoption decisions of multiple sustainable intensification practices (SIPs) in eastern and southern Africa and found that some practices used in maize production are complementary while others are substitutable, and the adoption of SIPs is influenced by social capital and networks, quality of extension services, reliance on government support during crop failure, incidence of pests and diseases, resource constraints, tenure security, education, and market access.
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Smallholder market participation: concepts and evidence from Eastern and Southern Africa.
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the evidence on smallholder market participation, with a focus on staple foodgrains (i.e., cereals) in eastern and southern Africa, in an effort to help better identify what interventions are most likely to break smallholders out of the semi-subsistence poverty trap that appears to ensnare much of rural Africa.
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Smallholder Market Participation: Concepts and Evidence from Eastern and Southern Africa
TL;DR: This paper reviewed the evidence on smallholder market participation, with a focus on staple foodgrains (i.e., cereals) in eastern and southern Africa, in an effort to help better identify what interventions are most likely to break smallholders out of the semi-subsistence poverty trap that appears to ensnare much of rural Africa.
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Consumption Risk, Technology Adoption and Poverty Traps: Evidence From Ethiopia
Stefan Dercon,Luc Christiaensen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the differential ability of households to take on risky production technologies for fear of the welfare consequences if shocks result in poor harvests and found that not only exante credit constraints, but also the possibly low consumption outcomes when harvest fails discourage the application of fertiliser.
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Fertilizer use in African agriculture : lessons learned and good practice guidelines
TL;DR: In every region of the world, the intensification of crop-based agriculture has been associated with a sharp increase in the use of chemical fertilizer, and therefore, policies and programs are needed to encourage fertilizer use in ways that are technically efficient, economically rational, and market-friendly.
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False Promise or False Premise? The Experience of Food and Input Market Reform in Eastern and Southern Africa
TL;DR: This paper found that many of the most fundamental elements of the reform programs either remain unimplemented, were reversed within several years, or were implemented in such a way as to negate private sector investment incentives.
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