Given the significant inflows of foreign aid to sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) the possibility of Dutch Disease has been a concern. Most macroeconomic models predict that aid inflows, especially if large and/or unanticipated (shocks), will lead to an appreciation of the real exchange rate and...

This study assesses the responsiveness of peas ant farmers to price and non-price factors using a farm-level survey data from Ethiopia, and the extent to which responsiveness varies with agro-ecology and farming systems. Agro-climatic and farming system differences are explicitly taken into...

Tanzania is among the many African countries that have engaged in agricultural liberalisation since the mid-1980s, in the hope that reforms which introduce price incentives and efficient marketing will encourage producers to respond. This paper assesses that claim by examining the supply...

Crop diversification is a farm level strategy to augment income, improve food security, and mitigate risks attributable to climate and market shocks. We use three-waves (2011/12 to 2016/17) of nationally representative repeated cross section surveys to study the impact of crop diversification on...