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The agricultural sector in Ethiopia is highly dependent on rainfall patterns, making it especially susceptible to climate change. As a result, climate change significantly affects crop production...

Land degradation and water challenges threaten sub-Saharan Africa’s agricultural productivity and food security. This study uses panel secondary data from the World Bank Living Standards...

This study aims to investigate the repercussions of climate change on crop production, focusing on cereals, pulses, oilseeds, and vegetables, and explore factors that influence crop productions in major agricultural...

Cereal crops are of critical importance to food security and rural livelihoods in Ethiopia, being cultivated on about 10 M ha annually and engaging nearly 16...

Africa produces around 60% of the rice the continent consumes, relying heavily on rice imports to fulfill the rest of the domestic demand. Over the past 10 years, the rice-agricultural...

Given that Ethiopian agriculture is seriously threatened by climate change, understanding the factors that influencing the adoption of various climate-smart agricultural (CSA) practices supports policy interventions to reduce...

Highlights: A four-step planning framework for water-energy-food at the basin scale is developed. Detailed river basin simulation coupled with AI-driven optimization is implemented. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam...

Climate change and variability already had and will continue to harm coffee production throughout the world. Between 80% and 90% of the world’s coffee is produced by smallholder farmers...

There are a wide range of biotechnologies available and many of them have been, and are currently being, used in many situations and sectors worldwide to solve the myriad...

This study was conducted to identify the determining factors of participation in irrigated farming and to estimate its impact on households' farm income and food security using cross-sectional data...