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the example of Ethiopia to show how simple improvements in administrative data collection can help to address this by (i …) allowing assessment of the productivity of land use and taking measures to increase it; (ii) comparing productivity between …
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To document the relative accuracy of methods for microdata collection on root and tuber crop production, an experiment was implemented in Malawi over a 12-month period, randomly assigning cassava-producing households to one of four approaches: daily diary-keeping, with semi-weekly supervision...
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on Agriculture. In addition, the paper (i) develops internationally comparable measures of overall agro-ecological crop …
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This paper uses the recently collected Living Standard Measurement Study-Integrated Surveys on Agriculture Initiative …
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Over the past decades child stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at alarming rates. While the country experienced several …
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Agriculture remains an important economic sector in Africa, employing a large share of the labor force and earning … years in Ethiopia, the paper estimates the impacts of rail transport on agricultural production. Methodologically, the paper … fertilizer is imported to Ethiopia …
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, most evidence relies on case studies. Ethiopia's large farms census together with 11 years of nation-wide smallholder …
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This paper employs decomposition methods to analyze differences in agricultural productivity between male and female … land managers in Ethiopia. It employs data from the 2011-2012 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey. An overall 23.4 percent … gender differential in agricultural productivity is estimated at the mean in favor of male land managers, of which 10 …
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operations were ceased in Ethiopia, this paper examines the relationship between agricultural production and transport …
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This paper sheds light on how to harvest the "youth dividend" in Sub-Saharan Africa by creating jobs in agriculture …. The agriculture that attracts the youth will have to be profitable, competitive, and dynamic. These are the same … characteristics needed for agriculture to deliver growth, to improve food security, and to preserve a fragile natural environment …
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