Role of agricultural commercialization in the agricultural transformation of Ethiopia: Trends, drivers, and impact on well-being

Minot, Nicholas; Warner, Jamie H.; Aredo, Samson Dejene; Zewdie, Tadiwos

doi:10.2499/p15738coll2.136521

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“…All prices and wages for sold products and services were obtained from respondents and communities. We consider crop income as a source (10) of income because the literature evidences increased commercialization for most cereal crops see, for instance, commercialization studies by Boka (2017), Minot et al (2021) and Ayele et al (2021).…”

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Drivers of income diversification among rural households in the Ethiopian central highlands

Getahun

Haji

Mehare

et al. 2023

Food and Energy Security

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As in most developing countries, farm households in Ethiopia are often engaged in several income diversification activities to mitigate several risks and uncertainties faced by agriculture and address poverty and food insecurity. The benefits of income diversification have been widely documented in the literature. However, little econometric evidence exists on the drivers of income diversification among farm households in Ethiopia. The paper addresses this information gap by investigating the drivers of choice decisions and intensity of income diversification among farm households using data collected from a sample of 385 randomly selected households from the Ethiopian central highlands. Unlike previous studies, our multivariate probit model results show that the choice decision of farm households is significantly interrelated and drivers had heterogeneous effects on the choice decision of households. The findings revealed that age, education, livestock, land, food shortage, agricultural commercialization cluster (ACC), investment in sustainable farming practices, rainfall, and maximum temperature significantly impacted the choice of income diversification. The fractional response logit model results revealed that age, livestock, food shortage, joint household decision‐making, ACC, income, rainfall, and study site significantly impacted the intensity of income diversification. The descriptive results revealed that most farmers (67%) tend to have a more diversified portfolio of income including off‐farm, forest, non‐farm, livestock, crop, and other sources, and the intensity of diversification ranges between 0 and 0.76. The study also finds the presence of both synergies and trade‐offs in different types of diversification. We suggest that there is an urgent need to improve the ways of income diversification among farm households to both the sustainability of small farms and ensure food security.

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Drivers of income diversification among rural households in the Ethiopian central highlands

Getahun

Haji

Mehare

et al. 2023

Food and Energy Security

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“…The technology used for the intervention was Kingbird wheat variety, which had been introduced in the country in 2015. Kingbird is relatively resistant to a fungal disease called wheat rust, and none of the farmers in the study area had previously cultivated the new variety (Minot et al, 2015). The treatment groups included: (1) assigning a single DA with basic, but holistic knowledge of all the three disciplines of the mixed crop‐livestock production system, who also received training on advanced communication skills to serve the farmers; and (2) changing the extension service delivery approach from model‐farmer focused involving almost no field days to one that involves more farmer field days organized around demonstration trials.…”

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Information acquisition and the adoption of improved crop varieties

Abdulai

2023

American J Agri Economics

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Inadequate information on the benefits of and knowledge about innovative agricultural technologies continue to be a major constraint to technology adoption among smallholder farmers in developing countries. The low adoption of new technologies is one of the causes of low productivity and high poverty incidence among smallholder farmers, particularly in Africa. In this paper, I briefly review the literature on social networks and technology diffusion, and argue that the diffusion potential of social networks is underexplored. I then present results from two empirical studies on the impact of social networks on the adoption of improved crop varieties in Ghana and Ethiopia. The results reveal that farmers' peer adoption decisions and experiences, as well as information from trained development agents positively and statistically influence their adoption decisions. I also find that network structural characteristics such as lower segmentation within networks, high credibility of the information, and high effectiveness and efficiency of the amount of information flow tend to improve information acquisition and speed up diffusion of improved crop varieties.

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Heterogeneous effects of horticulture commercialization and gender-based decision-making on smallholder farmers’ income: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study in Jimma zone, Ethiopia

Fikadu,

Nomura,

Gebre

et al. 2025

Journal of Agriculture and Food Research

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Role of agricultural commercialization in the agricultural transformation of Ethiopia: Trends, drivers, and impact on well-being

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Drivers of income diversification among rural households in the Ethiopian central highlands

Drivers of income diversification among rural households in the Ethiopian central highlands

Information acquisition and the adoption of improved crop varieties

Heterogeneous effects of horticulture commercialization and gender-based decision-making on smallholder farmers’ income: Evidence from a quasi-experimental study in Jimma zone, Ethiopia

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