Economic Viability and Use Dynamics of the Enset Food System in Ethiopia: Its Implications for Food Security

Agriculture continues to be vital to Africa’s future in both spatial and temporal contexts. Nonetheless, the sector keeps on confronting production challenges as a result of frequent and extended droughts, and these necessitate the use of drought-resistant crops such as sorghum. This review initiates one of the most common food grains grown in the poorest countries and the most food-insecure regions of the nation. We used deductive logical reasoning to develop a comprehensive scientific understanding of the crop that can be used to inform future research and policies. Various exclusion and inclusion criteria were used to filter the most prominent findings. Sorghum has the highest utility for its climatic adaptability and has grown for multiple purposes: From staple to industrial outcomes, its economic, social value, and health outcomes, and for animal silage. It is a gluten-free crop, has high nutritive value, and is preferred by healthy consumers. It is among the top five cereal crops worldwide in both production and acreage. This has necessitated the development of coping measures, such as the cultivation of drought-tolerant crops suitable for the affected areas. Therefore, this crop is used to ensure productivity, food security, and availability of food when other crops fail and food deficit and famine are affected in the region. This will contribute to the ongoing discussion on how to better inform private and public sector policy and investments in Ethiopia to increase sorghum and other drought-tolerant crop production, transform agriculture, improve nutrition, and food systems, and end hunger, food insecurity, and poverty.

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“…Figure 4: Causal loop and system dynamics relationship map for sorghum production, concept ideas from [36] Source: Authors' elaboration.…”

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Economic Potentials and Use Dynamics of Sorghum Food System in Ethiopia: Its Implications to Resolve Food Deficit

Sirany

Tadele

Aregahegn

et al. 2022

Advances in Agriculture

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“…Promotion of water-related technologies, particularly irrigation, makes sense depending on the availability of water and land resources to reduce deep-seated difficulties (Awulachew et al, 2005;MoA, 2011;Sirany et al, 2022).…”

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Koftu's Small-Scale Irrigation Schemes in Enhancing Water Resource Utilization in Ethiopia.

Hirko

Plessis

2023

Preprint

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This study aims to assess the effectiveness of the small-scale irrigation schemes in Koftu, Ethiopia, in enhancing water resource utilization. The research employed various methods, including conversations, flow measurements, household surveys, and literature searches, to collect relevant information. To evaluate the performance of the irrigation schemes, performance indicators for outputs, output delivery, and financial performance were employed. The crop water requirement was estimated using CROPWAT. The results indicate that the average relative water supply and irrigation supply were 2.06 and 2.47, respectively. The output per unit-controlled area was 21094.43US$/ha, while the output per unit-cultivated area was 11212.33US$/ha. The study also found that the irrigation schemes had a high-water productivity ratio of 2.10US dollars/m3 of output and 1.02US dollars/m3 of supply per unit of water used. Additionally, the schemes showed a high level of financial self-sufficiency due to the low cost of operation and maintenance. Overall, the findings demonstrate that the small-scale irrigation schemes in Koftu, Ethiopia, have been successful in enhancing water resource utilization and improving both land and water productivity. The use of performance indicators provides a useful tool for identifying performance gaps and improvement possibilities in irrigation schemes.

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Farmers’ local knowledge on classification, utilization, and on-farm management of enset (Ensete ventricosum [Welw.] Cheesman) landraces diversity in Hadiya, southern Ethiopia

Dilebo,

Feyissa,

Asfaw

2023

Genet Resour Crop Evol

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Economic Viability and Use Dynamics of the Enset Food System in Ethiopia: Its Implications for Food Security

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Economic Potentials and Use Dynamics of Sorghum Food System in Ethiopia: Its Implications to Resolve Food Deficit

Economic Potentials and Use Dynamics of Sorghum Food System in Ethiopia: Its Implications to Resolve Food Deficit

Assessing the Effectiveness of Koftu's Small-Scale Irrigation Schemes in Enhancing Water Resource Utilization in Ethiopia.

Farmers’ local knowledge on classification, utilization, and on-farm management of enset (Ensete ventricosum [Welw.] Cheesman) landraces diversity in Hadiya, southern Ethiopia

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