In this regard, Enset, which is a large perennial herbaceous crop native to Ethiopia, is highly stapled to approximately 20 million people in the southern, eastern, and central parts of Ethiopia. It is a common practice in the agricultural system of these areas, makin...
in the urban foodscape is in stark contrast to trends that have emerged in South Africa and in some middle-income SSA countries over the past two decades55. Our findings indicate that, similar to urban food systems in Ethiopia and Tanzania, Kampala’s food system is in a transitional stage...
International Livestock Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Namukolo Covic CGIAR, Montpellier, France Namukolo Covic & Ismahane Elouafi Wageningen Economic Research Group, Wageningen University, Den Haag, the Netherlands Christophe Béné
Using survey data collected from 996 representative households in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this paper documents several insights to help understand urban consumer food purchasing and consumption choices. The findings can be summarized as follows: 1) We find that households face important dietary gaps; a...
The article reviews the history and direction of this debate, outlining in the process current government policies aimed at promoting agrarian socialism and their effects on food production and the quality of rural life. It concludes that Ethiopia will suffer ever increasing food deficits until it ...
The short- and long-term impact of such changes on food production and famine prospects in Ethiopia are examined. The measures introduced by the PMAC do not guarantee that famine will not recur in Ethiopia, but they represent a significant and positive advance over prevailing trends in ...
In 2021, one in five people in Africa was affected by hunger, and the continent had the highest prevalence of undernourished people globally. We argue that food systems in Africa can be more resilient if their development includes climate adaptation.
Delivery service is relatively a new venture in Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous nation, with a growing number of recently established companies vying to penetrate the untapped market, mainly in the capital of Addis Ababa and its surroundings. ...
Compounding the problem, Africa is a major food importer, spending over $47 billion in 2018 to buy food on the world market. From 1998 to 2018, food imports shot up by over 1,000% in Ethiopia and Ghana, by over 300% in Nigeria and Kenya, and by 122% in Tanzania. (See Exhibit 3...
In the past decades, the government of Ethiopia established successive Growth and Transformation Plans I and II to modernize the agricultural sector, transform the agri-food system and finally reduce the number of food-insecure households. To achieve these ends, the Agricultural Transformation Agency ...