Efficiency and profits of emerging medium-scale farms in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia’s commercial horticultural sector
cg.authorship.types | CGIAR single centre | en |
cg.contributor.affiliation | International Food Policy Research Institute | en |
cg.contributor.crp | Policies, Institutions, and Markets | |
cg.contributor.donor | United States Agency for International Development | en |
cg.contributor.donor | European Commission | en |
cg.contributor.donor | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdom | en |
cg.contributor.donor | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | en |
cg.coverage.country | Ethiopia | |
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2 | ET | |
cg.coverage.region | Sub-Saharan Africa | |
cg.coverage.region | Africa | |
cg.coverage.region | Eastern Africa | |
cg.creator.identifier | Fantu Bachewe: 0000-0001-7376-5096 | |
cg.creator.identifier | Bart Minten: 0000-0002-2183-1845 | |
cg.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134266 | en |
cg.identifier.project | IFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division | |
cg.identifier.project | IFPRI - Ethiopia Strategy Support Program | |
cg.identifier.publicationRank | Not ranked | |
cg.number | 156 | en |
cg.place | Washington, DC | en |
cg.reviewStatus | Internal Review | en |
dc.contributor.author | Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane | en |
dc.contributor.author | Minten, Bart | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-22T12:12:34Z | en |
dc.date.available | 2024-05-22T12:12:34Z | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143219 | |
dc.title | Efficiency and profits of emerging medium-scale farms in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia’s commercial horticultural sector | en |
dcterms.abstract | We study production practices of larger and more capital-intensive farmers (“horti-preneurs”) in horticultural commercial clusters in the central Rift Valley of Ethiopia. Attracted by profitable vegetable markets, more educated farmers rent in land for vegetable production from a large number of smallholders to meet rapidly growing urban vegetable demand. We find that these hortipreneurs obtain more than double the profit per unit of land compared to smallholders. Compared to smallholders, horti-preneurs grow different vegetables – particularly those that require more upfront investments – and in the case that they grow the same crops as smallholders, we find that they use significantly more inputs, such as fertilizer, agro-chemicals, and labor; have higher production costs; and obtain better yields. Moreover, they are also more efficient and able to produce better quality vegetables and obtain better prices. This increasing emergence of more efficient medium-scale farmers in supplying local urban markets challenges the traditional smallholder model in Africa, at least for horticulture. | en |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | |
dcterms.bibliographicCitation | Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane; and Minten, Bart. 2021. Efficiency and profits of emerging medium-scale farms in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia’s commercial horticultural sector. ESSP Working Paper 156. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134266. | en |
dcterms.extent | 18 p. | en |
dcterms.isPartOf | ESSP Working Paper | en |
dcterms.issued | 2021-02-01 | |
dcterms.language | en | |
dcterms.license | CC-BY-4.0 | |
dcterms.publisher | International Food Policy Research Institute | en |
dcterms.relation | https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133909 | en |
dcterms.replaces | https://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/134266 | en |
dcterms.subject | food production | en |
dcterms.subject | farmers | en |
dcterms.subject | vegetable growing | en |
dcterms.subject | vegetables | en |
dcterms.subject | horticultural sector | en |
dcterms.subject | horticulture | en |
dcterms.subject | smallholders | en |
dcterms.subject | irrigation | en |
dcterms.subject | vegetable crops | en |
dcterms.subject | farms | en |
dcterms.subject | food prices | en |
dcterms.subject | prices | en |
dcterms.subject | profit | en |
dcterms.subject | farm size | en |
dcterms.type | Working Paper |
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