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Bulking and mixing of smallholder supply dilutes incentives to supply high quality. We introduce wheat ‘grading and certification shops’ in Ethiopia and use an auction design to gauge...

COVID-19 has severely affected Ethiopia, weakening its economic performance. Ethiopia has experienced a collapse in external demand since April 2020 due to COVID-19. While...

In 2020, the global coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic posed new challenges to the initiatives and institutions supporting the farming communities and ecosystems that underpin Africa’s food systems. This year’s...

Conflict and insecurity continue to be a primary driver of Crisis (IPC Phase 3) and Emergency (IPC Phase 4) outcomes in Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Yemen and in greater...

As citizens of the world, we are all facing an extraordinary challenge. In the year 2050, an estimated 9 billion people need to be fed. Every single day...

In agriculture, digitalisation could be a game changer in boosting productivity, profitability and resilience to climate change. An inclusive, digitally-enabled agricultural transformation could help achieve meaningful...

In this paper, we try to understand what the main causes of food losses (FLs) are. Our results show that producers' education and experience and the number of years in which...

Multiple studies have documented the negative impacts of COVID-19 on the poor and vulnerable. Over the past decade, rigorous evaluations have shown Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net...

Ethiopia has experienced dramatic deforestation and soil degradation. Less than 3 percent of the country’s native forests remain (UNFCCC 2009), largely the result of pressures from crop...

International humanitarian organizations have expressed substantial concern about the potential for increases in food insecurity resulting from the COVID‐19 pandemic. We use a unique panel survey...