Agricultural Transformation in Africa? Assessing the Evidence in Ethiopia

Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane; Berhane, Guush; Minten, Bart; Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.05.041

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“…During 2004-14, the total rural area cultivated and expanded for agricultural purposes increased by 2.7% per year and the number of smallholder farmers increased by 3.8%. The total agricultural output level also increased during this period (Bachewe et al 2015;Moller 2015).…”

Section: Land Use Feementioning

confidence: 88%

Relationship Between Inflation and Real Economic Growth in Rwanda

Nkikabahizi

Ndagijimana

Musabanganji

2017

Frontiers in African Business Research

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Section: Land Use Feementioning

confidence: 88%

Relationship Between Inflation and Real Economic Growth in Rwanda

Nkikabahizi

Ndagijimana

Musabanganji

2017

Frontiers in African Business Research

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“…Moreover, the country has made remarkable efforts in increasing productivity of the sector through devising various policies and strategies (Bingxin et al, 2011; Bachewe et al, 2015), mainly targeting to improve agricultural performance through adoption of improved agricultural technologies. However, despite these efforts, the sector's productivity has remained low for several reasons, among which low level of agricultural technology adoption is one Prior empirical studies investigated determinants of adoption of crop technologies, wheat technology adoption inclusive, in terms of adopting a single technology component or package-based components.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Disparity in Adoption of Wheat Production Technology Packages in Eastern Ethiopia

Kebede¹,

Ketema²,

Dechassa³

2017

RAAE

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Production of wheat by smallholder farmers in Ethiopia contributes a significant share to the agricultural production of the country. However, the actual productivity of the crop has been far below its potential. Varied levels of technology adoption are often observed among smallholder farmers producing the crop. For enhanced dissemination of technology packages and improving wheat productivity, it is vital to elucidate socio-economic factors that are behind disparity in technology adaption among smallholder farmers. Therefore, this study was conducted to analyse the socioeconomic, institutional, and other pertinent variables that determine the existing disparity observed among smallholder farmers in terms of adopting wheat production technology packages in Gurawa and Meta districts of eastern Ethiopia. The study utilized survey data collected from 124 randomly selected wheat households producing wheat. For this purpose, an ordered logit model was applied. The econometric results revealed that age of the household head, membership in cooperative institutions, and household annual income significantly and positively explained the disparity observed in adoption of wheat production technology packages. Conversely, gender of household head (sex), farming experiences, number of plots owned, and frequency of contacts with extension agents explained the disparity significantly, but negatively. It could be concluded that development practitioners, planners, and policy makers should give due considerations to the aforementioned socio-economic and institutional factors when designing dissemination of wheat production technology packages for adoption by farmers.

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“…Economic prospects and poverty reduction in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) are closely associated to productivity in agriculture, particularly in most developing countries (Bachewe et al , ; Willy and Holm‐Müller, ; De Janvry and Sadoulet, ). The large share of the labour force in agriculture in SSA indicates that agricultural sector growth will benefit a larger proportion of the population of the region.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In SSA, agriculture contributes at least 40 per cent of exports, 30 per cent of GDP, up to 30 per cent of foreign exchange earnings and provides employment for 70 to 90 per cent of the labour force in the region as a whole (AfDB, ). However, the region is falling behind and even falling apart in terms of agricultural transformation (Bachewe et al , ). As sourced from Willy and Holm‐Müller (), agricultural productivity in SSA has been rising at only moderate rates since the 1990s and remains far below levels found in other parts of the world.…”

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Dynamics of Agricultural Productivity and Technical Efficiency in Togo: The Role of Technological Change

Pilo¹

2019

African Development Review

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In the search for ways to boost agricultural productivity for the take-off of the so-advocated agricultural transformation, we investigate in this paper whether there is room under current technologies to boost agricultural productivity through technical efficiency, focusing on the five administrative regions of Togo. We use a regional stochastic frontier model, which assumes that farmers maximize return to the outlay in order to account for potential endogeneity and regional heterogeneities to a panel data for the period 2000-2014. The findings reveal that technical efficiency in agriculture varies considerably across regions and over time. In addition, our results indicate that the country can rely on irrigation intensification to sustain its move towards higher agricultural technical efficiency, while higher rainfall variability puts additional pressure on the achievement of such objective. The policy message drawn from this study supports policy strategies designed to promote irrigation and increased rainfall variability management tools, such as weather insurance, as sound agricultural technical efficiency driven options.

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Agricultural Transformation in Africa? Assessing the Evidence in Ethiopia

Cited by 156 publications

References 42 publications

Relationship Between Inflation and Real Economic Growth in Rwanda

Relationship Between Inflation and Real Economic Growth in Rwanda

Disparity in Adoption of Wheat Production Technology Packages in Eastern Ethiopia

Dynamics of Agricultural Productivity and Technical Efficiency in Togo: The Role of Technological Change

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