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2. Linking small-scale farmers to the durum wheat value chain in Ethiopia: Assessing the effects on production and wellbeing
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hermann, Raoul (author), Ciani, Federico (author), Burchi, Franchesco (author), and Biggeri, Mario (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2018-08-01
- Published:
- International: Elsevier
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12457
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 79
- Notes:
- 15 pages, Food security and agricultural-led industrialisation are pivotal development objectives in Ethiopia. One of the main challenges this country faces is increasing agricultural productivity by integrating smallholder farmers into a high-value agricultural commodity supply chain. This paper examines an integrated project—the Agricultural Value Chains Project in Oromia (AVCPO)—that aims to improve the livelihoods of smallholders in the Bale Zone by involving them in the production of high-quality durum wheat and linking them to the pasta industry via farmers’ cooperatives. Using primary data collected in 2014 and retrospective information, this paper investigates the AVCPO’s effects on the quantity of cereal production, the share of cereals that have been sold through cooperatives, food security, and education. In order to account for potential violations of the exclusion restriction assumption, an instrumental variable approach is applied, together with three additional estimation strategies. The results suggest that the project has had a large and positive effect on gross and net values of cereal production per hectare, as well as on the share of production sold to pasta makers through cooperatives. These benefits accrue equally to land-rich and land-poor farmers. Furthermore, our analysis suggests that the AVCPO has improved educational outcomes and reduced food insecurity, without affecting crop rotation practices. Overall, our findings point to the effectiveness of the project. Before replicating or scaling up this intervention, however, it is necessary to understand how to better involve poorer farmers and which adjustments are needed if the areas selected have a lower potential than Bale Zone.
3. Mobilizing opinion: achieving results
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Harris, Sam (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1990
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11450
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 15(4) : 313-318
- Notes:
- 6 pages., Online via UI electronic subscription, Describes the scope, mission, and activities of Results, an international citizen's lobby which has grown to include 150 groups in seven countries. Focuses on these major approaches to ending hunger and poverty in the Third World: small-farmer agricultural development, improving the survival of small children through immunization, oral rehydration therapy, breast-feeding and growth monitoring, promoting small loans to the poorest people. and adopting concrete, measurable goals to reduce global poverty.
4. Private agricultural research in Asia
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Pray, C. E. (author / University of Minnesota) and University of Minnesota
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1983
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 103 Document Number: C08915
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 : 131-140
5. Survey on attitudes to nutrition planning
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Schuftan, C (author / Tulane University, New Orleans) and Bertrand, W. (author / Tulane University, New Orleans)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1984-05
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 104 Document Number: C09050
- Journal Title:
- Food Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 9(2) : 99-102