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1. African theatre for development: art for self-determination

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Salhi, Kamal (author)
Format:: Book
Publication Date:: 1998
Published:: International: Intellect Books, Exeter, UK.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08690
Notes:: 188 pages.

2. Are religious farmers more risk taking? empirical evidence from ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Abraha Kahsay, Goytom (author), Asmare Kassie, Workineh (author), Medhin, Haileselassie (author), and Gårn Hansen, Lars (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022-02-08
Published:: United States: Wiley Online
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12441
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Economics
Notes:: 16 pages, There is growing evidence that religiosity affects important socio-economic outcomes. A potential channel through which religiosity affects these outcomes is by shaping individuals’ risk preferences. We combine a lab-in-the-field experiment, survey, and focus-group discussions to investigate the effect of religiosity on risk-taking among rural people in Ethiopia. We find evidence that religious farmers are more risk-taking. The effect is likely driven by the trust/belief in God as the omniscient and just power in determining outcomes under uncertainty. This is further corroborated by results from follow-up focus-group discussions.

3. Can governments promote homestead gardening at scale? Evidence from Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Hirvonen, Kalle (author) and Headey, Derek (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2018-12
Published:: Science Direct
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 7 Document Number: D10242
Journal Title:: Global Food Security
Journal Title Details:: 19 : 40-47
Notes:: Low intake of fruits and vegetables is a major cause of micronutrient deficiencies in the developing world. Since the 1980s, various non-governmental organizations have promoted homestead gardening (HG) programs, first in Asia, but now increasingly in Africa. Longstanding concerns with HG programs are: (1) they lack scalability, particularly for governments; (2) they only work in areas with/without good access to markets; and (3) they are only suitable for more water-abundant ecologies. We assess these concerns by analyzing a large and novel survey on the adoption of a nationwide HG program implemented by the Ethiopian government. We find that better market access encourages HG adoption; so too does greater public promotion of HGs, but only in more water-abundant ecologies. © 2018 The Authors

4. Challenges of smallholder farmers in accessing agricultural information in Southern Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Meggerssa, G.R. (author), Gemede, B.G. (author), and Jarsa, A.W. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020-05-01
Published:: Bulgaria: Trakia University Press
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12414
Journal Title:: Agricultural Science and Technology
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 12, Number 1
Notes:: 10 pages, The study was focused on identifying sources of agricultural information and analyzing challenges faced by smallholder farmers in accessing agricultural information in Southern Ethiopia. To achieve the stated objectives the study district was selected purposively from Wolaita zone by selecting five kebeles randomly. At the end, a total of 150 sample households were randomly selected from these five kebeles. To collect the data both primary and secondary sources were used for the purpose of this study. Primary data were collected directly from sample respondents through structured and semi-structured interview schedules, observation and focus group discussions. Secondary data were collected from Woreda agriculture and rural development office report, and other relevant books, journal articles and the Internet. After the relevant data were collected, the descriptive statistics such as mean, frequency, and percentage, and the inferential statistics such as chi-square tests were also used. The findings indicate that female farmers, illiteracy, location of market center, information seeking behavior of farmers, low rate of extension-farmers linkages, inadequate operational skill of aids, language barriers, lack of training, lack of rural electrification, lack of development agents, absence of rural networks, inadequate reading materials, and inappropriate time of broadcasting are the main challenges smallholder farmers were faced with. Therefore, to overcome the challenges strong commitment and reformation should be done in the study area by the concerned stakeholders.

5. Concepts and practices in agricultural extension in developing countries: a source book

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Anandajayasekeram, P. (author) and Corporate Author: International Livestock Research Institute. Improving Productivity and Market Success of Ethiopian Farmers Project
Format:: Book
Publication Date:: 2008
Published:: Ethiopia: International Livestock Research Institute, IPMS Ethiopia
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08114
Notes:: National Agricultural Library, 267 pages

6. Connect4Change (C4C) 2011-2015 Final Report

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Format:: Report
Publication Date:: 2015-12
Published:: The Netherlands: International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD)
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 151 Document Number: D10122
Notes:: 124 pages., Via website., This is the final report for the IICD-led Connect4Change programme implemented during 2011-215 in Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Peru, Uganda, and Zambia. The Connect4Change programme was implemented by an alliance of Dutch development organisations, incl. IICD, Edukans, Cordaid, ICCO, Akvo and TTC Mobile.

7. Development journalism revived: the case of Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Skjerdal, Terje S. (author)
Format:: Journal article abstract
Publication Date:: 2011
Published:: Ethiopia
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06751
Journal Title:: Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies
Journal Title Details:: 32(2) : 58-74

8. Disparities in cellphone ownership pose challenges in Africa

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Rheault, Magali (author) and McCarthy, Justin (author)
Format:: Research summary
Publication Date:: 2016-01-17
Published:: USA: Gallup, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D07403
Notes:: Via website. 8 pages.

9. Does neighborhood matter? spatial proximity and farmers’ technical efficiency

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Tirkaso, Wondmagegn (author) and Hailu, Atakelty (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022-02-02
Published:: United States: Wiley Online
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12443
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Economics
Notes:: 13pgs, This article examines the effects of neighborhood on the farmer's technical efficiency (TE) level, adopting a stochastic frontier and spatial Durbin regression models. Our study exploits a three-wave household-level panel data from the Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) collected between 2011 and 2015. We find that farmers have an average TE score of 53%, implying a substantial potential for improvement in the production level. We further find that there is a positive and statistically significant spatial interdependence in TE levels between farms in neighboring communities. Input use, education, and other demographic characteristics are found to have significant positive direct and indirect effects. The findings suggest that policies and programs targeting productivity improvements in agriculture need to consider spatial spillover effects.

10. Environment, development and sustainability: perspectives and cases from around the world

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Wilson, Gordon (author), Furniss, Pamela (author), and Kimbowa, Richard (author)
Format:: Book
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: International: Oxford University Press, Oxford, England
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08695
Notes:: 290 pages

11. Farmers perception on climate change and determinants of adaptation strategies in Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State of Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Mesfin, Afeworki H. (author) and Bekele, Adam (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2018
Published:: Ethiopia
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 121 Document Number: D11081
Journal Title:: International Journal on Food System Dynamics
Journal Title Details:: 9(5) : 453-469
Notes:: Available online at www.centmapress.org, Policy implications from findings suggested that improved access to credit, production factors (like land, labor) enhancing the bargaining power of smallholder farmers can significally increase farm-level adaption to climate change.

12. Food choices in Ethiopia: does nutritional information matter?

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Bekele, Alemayehu Dekeba (author), Beuving, Joost (author), and Ruben, Ruerd (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2016-03-16
Published:: USA: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08318
Journal Title:: International Journal of Consumer Studies
Journal Title Details:: 40 (6): 625-634

13. Gendered constraints for adopting climate-smart agriculture amongst smallholder Ethiopian women farmers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Tsige, Meseret (author), Synnevag, Gry (author), and Aune, Jens B. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020
Published:: Ethiopia
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: D11375
Journal Title:: Scientific African
Journal Title Details:: 7, e00250
Notes:: 12 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)., Findings showed that women smallholders' uptake was affected by limited access to credit, extension, restricted membership in cooperatives and water user associations, lack of access or user rights to land, skill training, information, and restricted mobility. Authors suggested that expanding off-farm diversification and rural employment opportunities through changing the land tenure system, which is currently state-owned, are essential to enhance women smallholders' access to land and other agricultural inputs.

14. Good farm practices and improved processing technology of enset for sustainable hunger solution in Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Kudama, G. (author), Tolera, T. (author), and Gebeyehu, L. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022-02-01
Published:: International: Springer Link
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12574
Journal Title:: Innovation and Entrepeneurship
Journal Title Details:: 11
Notes:: 20 pages., Given the multi-benefits, enset cultivation has been continuously underutilized in Ethiopia. We assess best practices, processing technologies, environmental maintenance, multi-benefits of enset and its potency in hunger reduction in Ethiopia by reviewing evidence on good farm practices, improved technologies, sustainability, hunger reduction, inputs cost, and yields advantage of enset. The review results identify those best practices that optimize enset yield, technologies that facilitate extension services, processing and food qualities of enset. Moreover, we find that enset is a first-rated climate-smart crop, superior hunger solution because of its apparent capability to endure long periods (more than 5 years) of drought, highest yield, energy food supply, and costs advantages. In contrast, its long-period maturity, cultural perceptions, and little development policy attention given to enset limit its expansion. Therefore, exploring and creating universal access mechanism of early maturing and high-yielding varieties, processing technologies and mobile-based advices, involving best practices of enset in regular agricultural extension services, changing social perceptions optimize enset yield and production thereby it contributes environmental sustainability and cuts hunger challenges.

15. INFORMATION NEEDS AND SEEKING BEHAVIOR OF FARMERS IN SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Kaske, Deribe (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020-10-23
Published:: United States: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12361
Journal Title:: Library Philosophy and Practice
Journal Title Details:: Fall 2020
Notes:: 19 pages., Information is an important factor in agricultural development. The study investigated farmers’ agricultural information needs and seeking behavior in the Southern Regional State of Ethiopia. A cross-sectional research design was employed and the study population included all household heads of the eight sampled villages in four administrative zones. A multi-stage sampling procedure was employed to obtain a sample of 320 farmers. Quantitative data were collected and research adopted descriptive statistics. The results revealed information on crop production technologies; information about diseases, pests and weather forecasts, and market information were identified as the top three most important types of agricultural information. Similarly, crop production technologies; animal husbandry technologies, and information about agricultural inputs were the information farmers seek frequently. Farmers use development agents as the first source of agricultural information. All of the respondents communicate with development agents face-to-face.

16. Impact of policy change on technical efficiency: evidence from small scale food crop farmers in Kellem Wollega, Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Terefe, Melkamu Kena (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2023-08
Published:: India: Agricultural Research Communication Centre
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12956
Journal Title:: Agricultural Science Digest
Journal Title Details:: V.43, Iss.4
Notes:: 6 pages, Background: An effort was made by the Ethiopian government to increase the level of technical efficiency of farmers across the country. However, due to climate change, smallholder farmers were facing challenges to increase technical efficiency in crop production. Adaptation to climate change is crucial to uphold and increase food crop productivity. This study analysis the impact of climate change adaptation and policy issues on food crop production efficiency in Kellem Wollega, Ethiopia. Methods: The data was gathered from 400 randomly selected food crop smallholder farmers. The Cobb-Douglas production function was used by including the climate change adaptation measures as explanatory variables in technical inefficiency. Simulation was made to adaption measures that can be influenced by the policy variables to see their impact on the level of technical efficiency. Result: The finding show that the use of adaptive practices (multiple crop type, improved crop varieties, adjusting planting dates and irrigation) had a significant and positive effect on technical efficiency whereas land fragmentation reduces efficiency level. Regarding simulation of policy variables the result show that the mean technical efficiency would increase with rising level of improved crop varieties, adjusting planting dates and irrigation practices. The results of the simulation of land fragmentation climate change adaptation variables show that the mean technical efficiency declines as a result of land fragmentation. Empirical results reveal that with appropriate policy intervention (climate change adaptation measures) the technical efficiency level of food crop farmers can be enhanced.

17. 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.

18. Market institutions: enhancing the value of rural-urban links

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Chowdhury, Shyamal (author), Negassa, Asfaw (author), and Torero, Maximo (author)
Format:: Research report
Publication Date:: 2005-10
Published:: International: International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10927
Notes:: Food Consumption and Nutrition Division Discussion Paper 195 and Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division Discussion Paper 89. 44 pages., This paper examines how market institutions can affect links between urban and rural areas with specific emphasis on goods market integration in the national context. Traditionally, development researchers and practitioners have focused either on rural market development or on urban market development without considering the interdependencies and synergies between the two. However, more than ever before, emerging local and global patterns such as the modern food value-chain led by supermarkets and food processors, rapid urbanization, changes in dietary composition, and enhanced information and communication technologies point to the need to pay close attention to the role of markets both in linking rural areas with intermediate cities and market towns and promotion of economic development and poverty reduction. This paper begins with a presentation of a conceptual framework of market integration and then identifies five major factors that increase the transfer costs that subsequently hinder market integration between rural and urban areas: information asymmetry, transaction costs, transport and communication costs, policy induced barriers, and social and noneconomic factors. Five specific cases in five developing countries are examined in this study to demonstrate the primary sources of transfer costs and the aspects of market institutions that are important to market integration and promotion of rural-urban linkages. While emerging institutions such as modern intermediaries linked to supermarkets and food processors can reduce information asymmetries between rural producers and urban consumers, existing institutions such as producers’ cooperatives can pool the risks, increase the bargaining power of small producers, reduce enforcement costs, and thereby reduce transaction costs. In addition, new types of partnerships between businesses and NGOs, and between public and private sectors, can improve infrastructure provision which, in turn, can reduce transport and communication costs. To the contrary, the presence of inappropriate policies or noneconomic factors such as those that involve social exclusion take on a negative role in linking urban and rural markets.

19. Marketing efficiency among gender-based decision-making farm households in southern ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Gezimu Gebre, Girma (author), Isoda, Hiroshi (author), Amekawa, Yuichiro (author), Bahadur Rahut, Dil (author), Nomura, Hisako (author), and Watanabe, Takaaki (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2021-04-28
Published:: United States: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12588
Journal Title:: Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing
Journal Title Details:: Online
Notes:: 27pgs, This study examines the effect of gender on marketing efficiency among maize producing households using data collected in the Dawuro zone, southern Ethiopia. Results indicate that the amount of maize assigned to the first ranked (most efficient) channel for male, female and joint decision-making households is significantly larger than that of the second, third, and fourth ranked channels, respectively. Significant results vary across gender categories at the same stage of marketing channel. Female decision-making households receive a lower producer price, as well as cover higher marketing costs and margins of middlemen, as compared to male and joint decision-makers at the same stage of the marketing channel. This study also found a limited financial ability for local institutions to establish maize storages in the study area. There is a need for an integrated agricultural marketing information system that would help female decision-making maize producers to better engage in available market opportunities.

20. Micro-level analysis of farmers' perception of climate change and variability and its implication for farm level adoption of adaptation strategies in Gezegofa District, Gamo Gofa Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Saguye, Tesfaye Samuel (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2016-11
Published:: Ethiopia: International Journal of Engineering Innovations and Research (IJEIR), 41, Naveen Swami Vivekanand Colony Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh 462 021 India
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08207
Journal Title:: International Journal of Engineering Innovations and Research
Journal Title Details:: 5 (6): 351-363

21. Mobile phone usage for accessing agricultural information in southern Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Kaske, Deribe (author), Mvena, Zebedayo S. K. (author), and Sife, Alfred S. (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2018-01
Published:: Taylor & Francis
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 18 Document Number: D10492
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural & Food Information
Journal Title Details:: 19(3): 284-298
Notes:: 16 pages., via online journal., This study was conducted in Ethiopia to determine the use of mobile phones in agriculture. The study included 320 household heads who owned mobile phones. Data were collected using an interview schedule. The results revealed that the majority (90.6%) of household heads made phone calls for agricultural purposes. Over three quarters (85.9%) of the household heads received phone calls related to agriculture. Short message service (SMS) was poorly used. It is concluded that mobile phones are playing an important role as an informational medium. Therefore, the Ministry of Agriculture in Ethiopia needs to develop a mobile-based agricultural information dissemination system to enhance information delivery to rural farming households.

22. Mobile phones and farmers' marketing decisions in Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Tadesse, Getaw (author) and Bahiigwa, Godfrey (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2015
Published:: Ethiopia
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: D06185
Journal Title:: World Development
Journal Title Details:: 68 : 296-307

23. Participatory environmental communication for sustainable natural resource management in Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Atinafu, Behailu (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2019
Published:: Ethiopia: Asian Institute for Development Communication (AIDCOM)
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11915
Journal Title:: Journal of Development Communication
Journal Title Details:: 30(2) : 72-81
Notes:: Online from UI Library subscription., Reports a case study of efforts to control an infestation of water hyacinth in Lake Tana, largest lake in Ethiopia. Findings revealed that participatory communication was equated to a public relations activity of organizing campaigns with the local people urged to participate by providing labour contribution of harvesting and collecting the weed from the lake. The communication approach was found to be a one-way, top-down approach which does not facilitate a horizontal dialogue among stakeholders.

24. Planning, monitoring and evaluation in the coffee improvement project, Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Dorward, Andrew (author) and Wye College, University of London
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 1988
Published:: Ethiopia: Elsevier
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: D07770
Journal Title:: Agricultural Administration and Extension
Journal Title Details:: 29 (4): 301-308

25. Poverty-alleviation communication practices of the Jerusalem Children and Community Development Organization (JeCCDO) in Negede Woito community, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Gessese, Negesse Bay (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020-03-27
Published:: UK: Nature Portfolio
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 207 Document Number: D13079
Journal Title:: Palgrave Communications
Journal Title Details:: V.5
Notes:: 9 pages, Poverty is an important issue for third world Sub-Saharan African countries such as Ethiopia. To assist with poverty alleviation, a great number of nongovernmental organizations have moved resources into the region, but the problem has not significantly improved. This paper studies the Jerusalem Children and Community Development Organization (JeCCDO), an NGO that has engaged in poverty alleviation programs in Ethiopia for more than 35 years. The study examines communication practices used by JeCCDO as part of its poverty alleviation programs in Negede Woito community (Bahir Dar, Ethiopia). We use a qualitative research methodology to assess the organization’s communication practices, as well as the challenges it and the Negede Woito community face. Poverty is perceived as lack of resources by JeCCDO, but the community also prioritizes other forms of poverty such as psychological and cultural. Our findings reveal that JeCCDO is renowned for using a social enterprise development model and a participatory communication approach. However, in practice we find these are not used. In the models, endogenous knowledge and grassroots communication were vital to community development, but JeCCDO did not implement them during planning, implementing, and evaluating community-based programs. Community workers who coordinated the organization and the community were Negede Woito community members. Besides grassroots communication, knowing the context and living situation of the community is mandatory for development agents. JeCCDO did not contextualize development efforts, such as sheep fattening and poultry for people who did not have shelter. In conclusion, we propose that nongovernmental organizations and development workers should reconsider their communication contexts and practices while launching new poverty alleviation programs.

26. Review on gendered perspective of household's participation in agricultural activities in Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Belay, Fenet (author) and Oljira, Alemayehu (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-01
Published:: Ethiopia
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11999
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
Journal Title Details:: 11(1) : 1-10
Notes:: 10 pages, Online via UI Library electronic subscription. Open access., "This paper re-affirms that women make essential contributions to agriculture and rural enterprises across the developing world. But there is much diversity in women's roles and over-generalization undermines policy relevance and planning."

27. Revolutionary advice: start with what the peasants feel

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Hendry, Peter (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 1982-05
Published:: Ethiopia: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08975
Journal Title:: Ceres
Journal Title Details:: 15(3) : 27-32
Notes:: AgComm Teaching

28. Selling together: the benefits of cooperatives to women honey producers in ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Serra, Renata (author) and Davidson, Kelly A. (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020-09-19
Published:: United States: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12370
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Economics
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 72, Iss. 1
Notes:: 22 pages, Smallholder farmers in developing countries encounter multiple barriers in access to inputs and technology, which prevent them from reaping the benefits from market participation. Women farmers face additional constraints due to gender norms that further limit their engagement in productive activities. While collective action has been shown to improve access to markets and economic outcomes for farmers overall, the evidence on the effects of cooperative membership for women smallholders remains limited. We investigate empirically the economic benefits of collective action for women farmers in the honey sector in Ethiopia. Relying on a rich data set on women honey producers, both cooperative members and non-members, we evaluate the effects of belonging to a cooperative on three outcome variables through coarsened exact matching and regression analysis. Our results indicate that cooperative membership significantly increases the market price and the production quantity and, while the average effect on the share of product marketed is statistically insignificant, significant differences emerge for women with given characteristics. These results are shown to be robust to a number of tests that address biases from selection on observables and unobservables. An analysis of the heterogeneous effects of household membership in multiple groups finds that membership of self-help groups or farmer associations amplifies the positive outcomes from belonging to a formal cooperative. Finally, qualitative findings derived from the same communities indicate self-reported improvements in agency and self-esteem among women members, thus reinforcing the importance of the quantitative findings.

29. Smallholders farmers' attitudes and determinants of adaptation to climate risks in East Africa

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Shikuku, Kelvin M. (author), Winowiecki, Leigh (author), Twyman, Jennifer (author), Eitzinger, Anton (author), Perez, Juan G. (author), Mwongera, Caroline (author), and Läderach, Peter (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2017-03-08
Published:: Africa
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 169 Document Number: D08757
Journal Title:: Climate Risk Management
Journal Title Details:: 16 : 234-245

30. Supporting advisory services for smart farming: digitalising extension

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Cline, Tiane (author)
Format:: Article
Publication Date:: 2019
Published:: Ethiopia: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, ACP-EU Wageningen, The Netherlands
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 153 Document Number: D11609
Journal Title:: Spore
Journal Title Details:: 194 : 18-22
Notes:: 5 pages., September-November issue via online., Digitalisation is improving the agricultural extension system by providing services at the right time, and facilitating adoption of new agronomic practices, resulting in yield improvements and higher incomes for farming households.

31. Tax compliance attitude of rural farmers: an analysis based on survey data in Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Hassen Azime (author) and Gollagari Ramakrishna (author)
Format:: Book chapter
Publication Date:: 2018
Published:: Ethiopia: Springer
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10183
Journal Title:: Economic Growth and Development in Ethiopia
Notes:: pgs. 137-158, Online ISBN: 978-981-10-8126-2, Online book chapter in Heshmati, H. and Yoon, H., Growth and Development in Ethiopia: Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region, Springer, Singapore., Applying logit regression models, we present the factors that determine the tax compliance attitude of individual smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. The evidence presented in this article is based on the 5th Afrobarometer Survey (2014). We find some similarities and some differences with earlier studies in factors that are correlated with the tax compliance attitude of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. We argue that tax compliance is a function of individual smallholder farmers and related variables and confirm that people who are happier with open administration arrangements have a tax compliant attitude. Those farmers who perceive that their ethnic group thinks that they have been treated unfairly are less likely to have a tax compliant attitude. Smallholder farmers’ tax knowledge is also significantly correlated with a tax compliant attitude in Ethiopia. We identify a taxpayer’s satisfaction with local government officials as another determinant of tax compliance. These findings are robust to different econometric specifications.

32. The administration of agricultural development programmes: a look at the Ethiopian approach -- part 2

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Stommes, Eileen (author) and Sisaye, Seleshi (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 1979-10
Published:: Ethiopia: Elsevier
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: D07779
Journal Title:: Agricultural Administration
Journal Title Details:: 6 (4): 253-267

33. The boundary of smallholder producers’ cooperatives: A conceptual and empirical analysis

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Tadesse, Getaw (author), Abate, Gashaw T. (author), and Ergano, Kebebe (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2018-11-08
Published:: United States: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12380
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Economics
Journal Title Details:: Vol.70, Iss. 2
Notes:: 21 pages, In this study we explain the concepts, determinants and imperatives of boundary in smallholder producers’ cooperatives both conceptually and empirically. The conceptual framework indicates the importance of the type of goods (being a club good or not) and range of activities that a cooperative provides to its members in defining a competitive boundary. Using unique organisational and market level data from Ethiopia, we then test empirically whether the observed (weak) performance of producers’ cooperatives in Africa is explained by their organisational boundary – the type and range of goods or services they provide to members. The empirical results confirm that the competitiveness of producers’ cooperatives is significantly correlated with the type and number of services – i.e. cooperatives that provide club goods and a limited range of services are found to be more competitive. The results also suggest that a considerable number of cooperatives in Ethiopia engage in markets where they do not have competitive advantage. Overall, we demonstrate the importance of properly defining a viable boundary – proper selection of services (or markets) and limiting the range of services – for improving the competitiveness of membership-based producer cooperatives in Africa.

34. The effects of a participatory approach on the adoption of agricultural technology: focusing on the social network structure in rural Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Takahashi, Ryo (author), Todo, Yasuyuki (author), and Degefa, Terefe (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2015
Published:: Ethiopia
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 102 Document Number: D10921
Journal Title:: Studies in Agricultural Economics
Journal Title Details:: 117 : 50-56
Notes:: This study empirically examined the effects of the participatory approach on the adoption of new crop varieties and agricultural practices. Particularly, we focused on the social network structure and examined how the introduced technologies diffused through networks in rural Ethiopia. Our empirical results indicate that if farmers knew and trusted fellow participants, the probability of adopting a new variety increased by 25 percentage points. However, this network had no statistical impact on the diffusion of new agricultural practices. We conclude that the participatory approach has great potential in the adoption of new crop varieties through the social networks of farmers in Ethiopia.

35. The impact of strengthening agricultural extension services on women farmers: Evidence from Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Buehren, Niklas (author), Goldstein, Markus (author), Molina, Ezequiel (author), and Vaillant, Julia (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-07-10
Published:: International: International Association of Agricultural Economists
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D12391
Journal Title:: Agricultural Economics
Journal Title Details:: Volume50, Issue4
Notes:: 14 pages., his paper evaluates the effect of the Rural Capacity Building Project (RCBP), which aimed at promoting growth by strengthening the agricultural service systems in Ethiopia, and by making them more responsive to smallholders’ needs, in particular women farmers. We examine the gender-differentiated impact of the RCBP using panel data on 1,485 geographically dispersed households in project and control kebeles. We find that women farmers’ access and satisfaction with extension services increased significantly immediately after the start of the project, but that effect did not last into the medium term. The project led to an increase in the adoption of high- value crop farming, area of land cultivated, and economic participation of household members, benefiting male- and female-headed households equally. Results point to the positive impact of incorporating women’s needs and constraints in the design of the agricultural extension system. However, the project was not able to reduce the preexisting gender gap in agricultural outcomes.

36. The role of institutional actors and their interactions in the land use policy making process in Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Ariti, Adenew Taffa (author), Van Vliet, Jasper (author), and Verburg, Peter H. (author)
Format:: Online journal article
Publication Date:: 2019-05-01
Published:: Elsevier
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10626
Journal Title:: Journal of Environmental Management
Journal Title Details:: 237: 235-246
Notes:: 12 pages., via online journal., This study investigates the role of the different institutional actors involved in the development and implementation of land use policies in the Ethiopian Rift Valley. The work is based on interviews with key informants from different administrative levels and these results are compared to the relevant policy documents. While the constitution prescribes a participatory policy development process, our results show that in reality policies are made at the highest level and implemented in a top-down approach from the higher to the lower administrative levels. Moreover, the institutional network mainly consists of institutions that are hierarchically linked, while horizontal and diagonal relations are less common and less important. Consistently, higher level institutions are mostly involved in the development of land use policies, while the roles of lower level institutions are predominantly in the implementation thereof. This lack of participation by lower level institutions, in addition to a lack of capacity and absence of clear institutional mandates, hampers the effectiveness of land use policies. Our results also provide suggestions to improve the development, communication, and eventually the acceptability of land use policies towards sustainable land management.

37. The use and abuse of the ‘model farmer’ approach in agricultural extension in Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Hailemichael, Salem (author) and Haug, Ruth (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2020-05-06
Published:: United States: Taylor & Francis
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 202 Document Number: D12054
Journal Title:: Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
Journal Title Details:: Vol 26, 2020 Issue 5
Notes:: 21 Pages, Purpose: The article examines the implementation and effects of the model farmer-based approach of farmer-to-farmer extension delivery that is in use in Ethiopia. Methodology: The study used mixed methods, combining focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and a household survey. Findings: The model farmer approach has increased extension coverage, improved the possibility for information and technology dissemination, and enabled the inclusion of virtually all farming households in extension and advisory networks. Simultaneously, the approach has become a mechanism for the top-down control of farmers, for the identification and favouritism of better-off farmers, and those with political commitments. Practical implications: The findings show that there is a need to critically reflect on who model farmers are, how they are selected, what their historical and current roles and impact have been, as well as follower farmers’ feedback on the approach in order to avoid perpetuating the misuse of the approach. Theoretical implications: The article argues that the Ethiopian context that rewards rapid increase in production and productivity, modernisation of agriculture, competitive commercialisation, and a context that allows the continued entanglement of extension delivery with politics have enabled such misuse of the approach to proliferate. The article questions the extent of applicability of the core farmer-to-farmer extension principles that relate to social ties, reciprocity, collaboration, and minimal social hierarchies in such a context. Originality/value: The study generates important insights about the effects of model farmer-based extension approach, its political dimensions, and the importance of context for successful farmer-to-farmer extension.

38. Traditional and modern (or improved) rural water supplies: stories from Ethiopia and Niger

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Danert, Kerstin (author)
Format:: Book chapter
Publication Date:: 2010
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08697
Notes:: Pages 34-44 in Gordon Wilson, Pamela Furniss and Richard Kimbowa (eds.), Environment, development and sustainability: perspectives and cases from around the world. Oxford University Press, Oxford, England. 290 pages.

39. Unlocking the potential of smallholder dairy farm: Evidence from the central highland of Ethiopia

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Feyissa, Abraham Abera (author), Senbeta, Feyera (author), Tolera, Adugna (author), and Guta, Dawit Diriba (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2022-12-01
Published:: Netherlands: Elsevier B.V.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 206 Document Number: D12799
Journal Title:: Journal of Agriculture and Food Research
Journal Title Details:: Vol. 11
Notes:: 10 pages, Sustainable livestock farming practices have the potential to improve productivity and high income, reduce greenhouse gases, and improve household food security. Despite previous efforts to disseminate these technologies, the rate of adoption has remained very low in Ethiopia. In this study, we investigate the determinants of adoption and the impact of improved dairy farming practices (IDFP), which include improved breed, improved feed, and improved feeding conditions, on household food security in the central highland of Ethiopia.

40. Using short wave and computers

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA) (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 1987-01
Published:: Ethiopia: Organizing Council for International Agricultural Communicators, Winrock International, Morrilton, Arkansas.
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10000
Journal Title:: OCIAC Update
Journal Title Details:: 15 : 3
Notes:: This article is maintained in the office of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign -- "International" file section -- "OCIAC" file folder.

41. Will digital technologies transform agriculture in developing countries?

Collection:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
Contributers:: Deichmann, Uwe (author), Goyal, Aparajita (author), and Mishra, Deepak (author)
Format:: Journal article
Publication Date:: 2016
Published:: International
Location:: Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 164 Document Number: D08261
Journal Title:: Agricultural Economics
Journal Title Details:: 47 Supplement, 21-33
Notes:: Focuses on results in World Development Report 2016: Digital Divide, published by the World Bank.

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