Agricultural extension in Ethiopia through a gender and governance lens

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen_US
cg.coverage.countryEthiopiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africaen_US
cg.coverage.regionAfricaen_US
cg.creator.identifierTewodaj Mogues: 0000-0002-3816-8445en_US
cg.creator.identifierJosee Randriamamonjy: 0000-0002-5810-254Xen_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Ethiopia Strategy Support Programen_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Divisionen_US
cg.number7en_US
cg.placeAddis Ababa, Ethiopiaen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
dc.contributor.authorMogues, Tewodajen_US
dc.contributor.authorCohen, Marc J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorBirner, Reginaen_US
dc.contributor.authorLemma, Mamushaen_US
dc.contributor.authorRandriamamonjy, Joseeen_US
dc.contributor.authorTadesse, Fanayeen_US
dc.contributor.authorPaulos, Zelekaworken_US
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-21T10:00:50Zen_US
dc.date.available2024-11-21T10:00:50Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/162054en_US
dc.titleAgricultural extension in Ethiopia through a gender and governance lensen_US
dcterms.abstractDrawing on a household survey collected in eight woredas in seven Ethiopian regions in 2009, as well as on qualitative fieldwork in four of the eight woredas, this paper provides analysis of agricultural extension delivery in Ethiopia. While overall extension services are relatively accessible in Ethiopia, there are differences in access between men and women, and particularly stark differences by region. Individual visits by public sector extension agents to household farms are by far the most common mode of extension delivery; alternative modes of extension (either in delivery method or type of service provider) play a rather limited role. Using the method widely applied in the "Citizen Report Card" approach, questions to farmers regarding satisfaction with services yielded near 100 percent reporting of satisfaction; however, the study also showed relatively low uptake of extension advice. This suggests the need to revisit or refine the Citizen Report Card method of eliciting satisfaction with services in this type of empirical context. Women's groups (e.g. the women's associations at the kebele level in rural areas) may be a promising approach to reach women with extension services; in some of the study sites, they were able to successfully link extension agents with women farmers and circumvent the socially sensitive issue of (male) extension agents providing advice to women one-on-one. However, the use of women's associations also for other matters, e.g. political mobilization of women, may weaken their promise in expanding access to extension services for women farmers. Finally, making agricultural extension demand driven remains a challenge in Ethiopia. While there is strong political will to expand agricultural extension in Ethiopia, the strong standardisation of extension packages arising from a pronounced top-down nature of public service delivery makes it difficult to tailor agricultural extension to farmers' needs. The incentives of extension agents are set in a way that they try to maximize farmers' adoption of standardized packages. The packages have become less rigid in recent years, with a menu of options now available to farmers. However, even the more diversified menu cannot substitute for the microlevel adaptation, the process that would make new inputs and practices more credible to farmers, and which only extension workers and their farmers can feasibly manage.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMogues, Tewodaj; Cohen, Marc J.; Birner, Regina; Lemma, Mamusha; Randriamamonjy, Josee; Tadesse, Fanaye; Paulos, Zelekawork. 2009. Agricultural extension in Ethiopia through a gender and governance lens. ESSP II Discussion Paper 7. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/162054en_US
dcterms.extent46 p.en_US
dcterms.isPartOfESSP II Discussion Paperen_US
dcterms.issued2009en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.publisherEthiopian Development Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/130938en_US
dcterms.subjectagricultural extensionen_US
dcterms.subjectgovernanceen_US
dcterms.subjectgenderen_US
dcterms.subjecthousehold surveysen_US
dcterms.subjectglobalizationen_US
dcterms.typeWorking Paperen_US

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