The impact of Ethiopia’s direct seed marketing approach on smallholders’ access to seeds, productivity, and commercialization

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Marketsen
cg.coverage.countryEthiopiaen
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ETen
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africaen
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen
cg.creator.identifierDawit Mekonnen: 0000-0003-3642-3497en
cg.creator.identifierGashaw T. Abate: 0000-0003-2026-8066en
cg.creator.identifierSeid Yimam: 0000-0001-7058-5073en
cg.creator.identifierRui Benfica: 0000-0003-2631-107Xen
cg.creator.identifierDavid J. Spielman: 0000-0002-6889-7358en
cg.creator.identifierFrank Place: 0000-0002-1216-8308en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134247en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Divisionen
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Divisionen
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Divisionen
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Ethiopia Strategy Support Programen
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden
cg.number1998en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorMekonnen, Dawit Kelemeworken
dc.contributor.authorAbate, Gashaw T.en
dc.contributor.authorYimam, Seiden
dc.contributor.authorBenfica, Ruien
dc.contributor.authorSpielman, David J.en
dc.contributor.authorPlace, Franken
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-22T12:14:12Zen
dc.date.available2024-05-22T12:14:12Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143446
dc.titleThe impact of Ethiopia’s direct seed marketing approach on smallholders’ access to seeds, productivity, and commercializationen
dcterms.abstractSeveral factors contribute to the low level of improved variety use in Ethiopia. Among those, on the supply side, is the limited availability of seed in the volumes, quality, and timeliness required by farmers, which is partly a result of limited public and private investment in the sector. Beginning in 2011, the Government of Ethiopia introduced a novel experiment-the Direct Seed Marketing (DSM) approach-to reduce some of the centralized, state-run attributes of the country’s seed market and rationalize the use of public resources. DSM was designed to incentivize private and public seed producers to sell seed directly to farmers rather than through the state apparatus. This study is the first quantitative evaluation of DSM’s impact on indicators of a healthy seed system: access to quality seeds, on-farm productivity, and market participation of smallholders. Using a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach, the study finds that DSM led to a 26 percent increase in maize yields and a 5 percent increase in the share of maize harvest sold. DSM also led to improvements in seed availability for all three of Ethiopia’s major cereals: maize, wheat, and teff. However, DSM’s effects on yields and share of harvest sold are not statistically significant for wheat and teff. These crop-specific differences in performance are likely explainable by biological differences between hybrid maize and openly pollinated varieties of wheat and teff that incentivize private sector participation in maize seed markets over wheat and teff seed markets. These differences demand different policies and perhaps even institutional approaches to accelerating adoption between hybrids and OPVs.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMekonnen, Dawit Kelemework; Abate, Gashaw Tadesse; Yimam, Seid; Benfica, Rui; Spielman, David J.; and Place, Frank. 2021. The impact of Ethiopia’s direct seed marketing approach on smallholders’ access to seeds, productivity, and commercialization. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1998. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134247.en
dcterms.extent35 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2021-01-01en
dcterms.languageenen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133289en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/151335en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134441en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.312925en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/134247en
dcterms.subjectseed systemsen
dcterms.subjectseed qualityen
dcterms.subjectseedsen
dcterms.subjectdirect marketingen
dcterms.subjectcropsen
dcterms.subjectmaizeen
dcterms.subjectcrop productionen
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.subjectmarketingen
dcterms.subjectseed productionen
dcterms.subjectproductivityen
dcterms.subjectcommercializationen
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