Transforming Staple Food Value Chains in Africa: The Case of Teff in Ethiopia

Minten, Bart; Tamru, Seneshaw; Engida, Ermias; Kuma, Tadesse

doi:10.1080/00220388.2015.1087509

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“…Hence, teff has a higher commercial surplus, and is often considered a cash crop for its producing farmers (Minten et al 2015(Minten et al , 2016. Teff is further more readily eaten in urban than rural areas.…”

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Cities and agricultural transformation in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia

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Minten³

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World Development

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Version: February 2016 AbstractDue to the rapid growth of cities in Africa, a larger number of farmers is living in the rural hinterland providing food to urban residents. However, empirical evidence on how urbanization affects these farmers is scarce. To fill this gap, this paper explores the relationship between proximity to a city and the production behavior of rural staple crop producers. More in particular, we analyze unique data from teff producing farmers in major producing areas around Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital. We find that farmers more closely located to Addis Ababa face higher wages and land rental prices, but because they receive higher teff prices they have better incentives to intensify production. Moreover, we observe that modern input use, land and labor productivity, and profitability in teff production improve with urban proximity. There is a strong and significant direct effect of urban proximity, which is suggested to be related with more use of formal factor markets, less transaction costs, and better access to information. In contrast, we do not find strong and positive relationships of rural population density increases -as an alternative source of agricultural transformation -as they seem to lead to immiserizing effects in these settings. Our results show that urban proximity should be considered as an important determinant of the process of agricultural intensification and transformation in developing countries.

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Cities and agricultural transformation in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia

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“…In Ethiopia, for instance, Minten et al. () note a major increase in herbicide use among teff growers, from around 30% applying 10 years ago to over 60% now. In Nigeria, herbicides and nonherbicides appears to contribute equally to higher health expenditures where the value of health expenditures from sickness is the outcome variable.…”

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Human health and pesticide use in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Sheahan¹,

Barrett

Goldvale

2017

Agricultural Economics

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While pesticides-such as insecticides, fungicides, and herbicides-are often promoted as inputs that increase agricultural productivity by limiting a range of pre-harvest losses, their use may have negative human health and labor productivity implications. We explore the relationship between pesticide use and the value of crop output at the plot level and a range of human health outcomes at the household level using large-scale, nationally representative panel survey data from four Sub-Saharan African countries where more than 10% of main season cultivators use pesticides. We find that pesticide use is strongly correlated with increased value of harvest, but is also correlated with higher costs associated with human illness, including increased health expenditures and time lost from work due to sickness in the recent past. We take these results as suggestive that the findings of more targeted studies are indeed generalizable beyond their original, purposively chosen samples. JEL classifications: I15, I31, J28, J32, O13, O33, Q12

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“…This chapter is based onMinten et al (2016). This is reprinted by permission of the publisher (Taylor & Francis Ltd, www.tandfonline.com).…”

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