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The impacts of widespread agricultural interventions on yields and food security in Ethiopia☆

Victor Cordonnier, Katia Covarrubias and Ana Paula de la O Campos

Food Policy, 2024, vol. 124, issue C

Abstract: In the past decades, the Government of Ethiopia implemented widespread interventions with the objective of modernizing the agricultural sector and stimulating transformative growth. This paper assesses the agricultural yields and food security impacts of those interventions. Combining project and remote-sensing data with a nationally representative household panel survey, we identify impacts by exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in the roll-out of the interventions implemented by the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency from 2011 to 2016. Results show that large-scale agricultural interventions are associated with higher agricultural yields and better food security outcomes. These outcomes underscore the linkages that persist between agricultural development and food security for rural households living in mostly agrarian economies and the potential for systems-wide interventions to catalyze agricultural transformation.

Keywords: Agricultural interventions; Agricultural yields; Food security; Impact evaluation; Ethiopia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 O13 O55 Q12 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2024.102626

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