Impacts of feed shortage on livestock and crop production: Implications for rural poverty in Ethiopia

Gebeyehu Fetene and Zewdu Abro

No 364805, 2023 Seventh AAAE/60th AEASA Conference, September 18-21, 2023, Durban, South Africa from African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE)

Abstract: Livestock plays multiple roles in Africa. However, its productivity is low because of primarly feed shortage. Neverthless, the impacts of feed shortage have been scantely systematically studied. In this paper, we first estimate the household-level impact of feed shortage on the value of livestock deaths, livestock production cost, and on crop production using econometric models. Second, we extrapolate the country-wide economic losses due to feed shortage. Finally, using the growth-elasticity of poverty approach, we calculate the total poverty implication effects of the economic loss. We used a panel data collected from 5,725 smallholders. We find that feed shortage increases the value of livestock deaths by about 25% and livestock production costs by 92%. it reduces crop production by about 5%. The estimated annual economic loss is about 380.1 million USD, which would have lifted 800,696 people above the poverty line. Interventions that improve feed availability appear to be pro-poor.

Keywords: Food; Security; and; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.364805

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