Agricultural interventions and food security in Ethiopia

Cordonnier, V. ; Covarrubias, K.A.; De la O Campos, A.P.;

Agricultural interventions and food security in Ethiopia

What is the role of adjusting livelihood strategies?

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 58 p.

Author Cordonnier, V. ; Covarrubias, K.A.; De la O Campos, A.P.;

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 978-92-5-137329-3

Series title FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper

Series number No. 22-13

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Synopsis (short abstract) This paper assesses the food security impacts of widespread agricultural interventions, aiming at increasing agricultural yields, and explores the role played by adjustments in rural households’ livelihood strategies in mediating those impacts. Our empirical strategy combines project and remote-sensing data with a household panel survey and exploits the timing and geographic variation in the roll-out of interventions implemented from 2011 to 2016 by the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA), recently renamed as Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI). Results show that agricultural interventions are effectively associated with higher agricultural yields, better food security outcomes and adjustments in livelihood strategies. However, when exploring the role of livelihood strategies through a Causal Mediation Analysis, we show that livelihood adjustments do not seem to play any mediating role in food security impacts. Heterogeneity analysis suggests that the absence of a mediating role stems from agricultural interventions affecting different types of households differently: the most vulnerable households primarily benefited through food security improvements while more-endowed households adjusted their livelihood strategies.

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Cordonnier, V., Covarrubias, K.A. & de la O Campos, A.P. 2022. Agricultural interventions and food security in Ethiopia – What is the role of adjusting livelihood strategies? FAO Agricultural Development Economics Working Paper, No. 22-13. Rome, FAO.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cc3229en

Language English

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