Labour, profitability and gender impacts of adopting row planting in Ethiopia

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.donorDepartment for International Development, United Kingdomen
cg.contributor.donorEuropean Unionen
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierBart Minten: 0000-0002-2183-1845
cg.creator.identifierAlemayehu Seyoum Taffesse: 0000-0001-8144-8998
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jby001en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Ethiopia Strategy Support Program
cg.identifier.publicationRankB
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn0165-1587en
cg.issn1464-3618en
cg.issue4en
cg.journalEuropean Review of Agricultural Economicsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.volume45en
dc.contributor.authorVandercasteelen, Joachimen
dc.contributor.authorDereje, Mekdimen
dc.contributor.authorMinten, Barten
dc.contributor.authorTaffesse, Alemayehu Seyoumen
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-21T09:13:22Zen
dc.date.available2024-06-21T09:13:22Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/147333
dc.titleLabour, profitability and gender impacts of adopting row planting in Ethiopiaen
dcterms.abstractImproved technologies are increasingly promoted to farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to address low agricultural productivity. There is, however, a lack of evidence on how adoption affects farmers’ labour use, gender roles and profitability. This paper analyses the farm level impacts of the recently introduced row planting technology in teff production in Ethiopia. Using a randomised controlled trial, we show that row planting significantly increases the total labour requirement and allocation but not teff yields, resulting in a substantial drop in labour productivity. There is no significant profitability effect at the farm level, seemingly explaining the limited success in upscaling the programme.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationVandercasteelen, Joachim; Dereje, Mekdim; Minten, Bart; and Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum. 2018. Labour, profitability and gender impacts of adopting row planting in Ethiopia. European Review of Agricultural Economics 45(4): 471–503. https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jby001en
dcterms.extentpp. 471-503en
dcterms.issued2018-02-21
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherOxford University Pressen
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/6179en
dcterms.subjectprofitabilityen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectcropping patternsen
dcterms.subjectteffen
dcterms.subjecteragrostis tefen
dcterms.subjectlabouren
dcterms.subjectlabour allocationen
dcterms.subjectcrop yielden
dcterms.subjectinnovation adoptionen
dcterms.subjectproductivityen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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