Cereal productivity and its drivers: The case of Ethiopia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSub-saharan Africa
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number75
cg.placeAddis Ababa, Ethiopia
cg.placeWashington, DC
cg.reviewStatusInternal Review
dc.contributor.authorBachewe, Fantu Nisrane
dc.contributor.authorKoru, Bethlehem
dc.contributor.authorTaffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-01T02:55:50Zen
dc.date.available2024-08-01T02:55:50Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/151189
dc.titleCereal productivity and its drivers: The case of Ethiopiaen
dcterms.abstractCereal production has exhibited unprecedented growth in Ethiopia, leading to important welfare improvements in the country. However, it is not well understood what the drivers have been of this growth and how it can be sustained. In particular, there is a lack of evidence on the contribution of improvements in productivity to growth in yields. Moreover, doubts exist on whether it is possible to sustain such growth on declining landholdings. We study cereal production using a unique large-scale survey of households and analyze productivity is-sues using stochastic frontier and data envelopment analyses, two conceptually dissimilar methods. Production frontier estimates indicate that modern inputs contribute significantly to improvements in yields. The two analytical methods used indicate that an average cereal producing household is less than half as efficient as optimally producing households, and, consequently, there is considerable opportunity for additional growth in cereal production in Ethiopia.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationBachewe, Fantu Nisrane; Koru, Bethlehem and Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum. 2015. Cereal productivity and its drivers: The case of Ethiopia. ESSP II Working Paper 75. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Washington, DC: Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) and International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/151189en
dcterms.extent29 pages
dcterms.isPartOfESSP II Working Paperen
dcterms.issued2015-05-29
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherEthiopian Development Research Institute
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/150254en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/129230
dcterms.subjectcerealsen
dcterms.subjectagricultural growthen
dcterms.subjectsustainabilityen
dcterms.subjectfarm inputsen
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.subjectproductivityen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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