Ethiopia - Consortium Outputs

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Working Paper: Commercialisation of Smallholder Agriculture in Selected Tef-growing Areas of Ethiopia

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Working Paper: Agricultural Commercialisation in Coffee Growing Areas of Ethiopia

Briefing: Pathways for Ethiopian Agriculture:
Options and Scenarios

Ethiopia has drafted the second PRSP in the shape of a Plan for Accelerated and Sustainable Development to End Poverty (PASDEP). The new document has intensified the debate on agriculture both locally and internationally. The key question is: how do debates about growth and poverty reduction relate to agriculture? This briefing explores tensions, trade-offs, and policy controversies in the PRSP document.

The full research paper on which this Briefing is based can be found here


Briefing: Agriculture, Growth and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia: Policy Processes Around the New PRSP (PASDEP)

Trade-offs between growth and poverty reduction and the role of agriculture are major contemporary
issues in debates about future agricultures in Africa. This briefing explores the policy processes surrounding the second Ethiopian PRSP, and the implications this has for agricultural policy and rural development more broadly.

The full research paper on which this Briefing is based can be found here

Briefing: Food Aid and Small-holder Agriculture in Ethiopia

This briefing note examines the trends and current status of Ethiopian food aid. It contrasts a number of future options or scenarios for food aid, but argues that the time has come to have a serious debate about food aid and its relationship with smallholder agriculture.

The full research paper on which this Briefing is based can be found here

Briefing: Land, Land Policy and Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia

This briefing paper indicates that the closed and limited nature of the land debate in Ethiopia is constraining options for future scenarios. What to do about land and land tenure? This remains a sticking point which needs to be urgently tackled.

The full research paper on which this Briefing is based can be found here

Briefing: Intensification of Ethiopian Smallholder Agriculture

This briefing assesses the prospects and constraints for shifting the yield frontier in grain production. It reviews recent government experiences of the PADETES intensification programme, as well as the socio-economic conditions of small farmers and the policy and institutional environments under which the programme has been implemented.

The full research paper on which this Briefing is based can be found here


Future Agricultures Stakeholder Workshop

The Ethiopia Consortium team was tasked with initiating policy debate through key informant interviews and where possible holding discussions in a form of workshops. This report tables the proceedings and outputs of one such workshop, held in Awassa in March 2006.

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A major focus of our work on the Ethiopia component of the Agriculture Consortium will be to explore in some depth the alternative policy prescriptions that have been proposed, and/or are being implemented, for Ethiopian agriculture. Note that we understand agriculture to include a range of crop-based (smallholder and commercial farming of food and cash crops), and livestock-based (pastoralist and agro-pastoralist) livelihoods. Although other components of the Agriculture Consortium will adopt a regional (multi-country) focus, the Ethiopia component will focus on the range of 'agricultures' that are being practised or proposed within this large and diverse country. Ethiopian policy debates are always vigorous and passionate, and several current 'hot topics' - the Poverty Reduction Strategy, Productive Safety Nets Programme and Voluntary Resettlement Programme, among others - impact directly on agricultural livelihoods. There are four broad pathways that a future agricultural strategy might take, which will be closely scrutinised in this work programme: intensification, diversification, commercialisation, and 'depopulation'

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