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

B-Tier
Journal: Food Policy
Year: 2024
Volume: 124
Issue: C

Authors (3)

Cordonnier, Victor (not in RePEc) Covarrubias, Katia Alejandra (United Nations) de la O Campos, Ana Paula (not in RePEc)

Score contribution per author:

0.673 = (α=2.02 / 3 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

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.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:jfpoli:v:124:y:2024:i:c:s030691922400037x
Journal Field
Development
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-25