Smallholder dairy value chain development: The case of Ada’a woreda, Oromia Region, Ethiopia
Title | Smallholder dairy value chain development: The case of Ada’a woreda, Oromia Region, Ethiopia PDF eBook |
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Publisher | ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD) |
Pages | 78 |
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AgrInvest-Food Systems Project: Increasing sustainable investment in the Ethiopian dairy value chain
Title | AgrInvest-Food Systems Project: Increasing sustainable investment in the Ethiopian dairy value chain PDF eBook |
Author | Ferede Abebe, A., Bizzotto Molina, P., Woolfrey, S. |
Publisher | Food & Agriculture Org. |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2022-05-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9251360952 |
This study of the dairy value chain in the Oromia region of Ethiopia was conducted as part of the AgrInvest-Food Systems Project, a collaboration between the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) to promote private investments in African food systems that contribute to local economic, social and environmental sustainability.
Analysis of Milk Value Chain: the Case of Ada’a Dairy Cooperative in Ada’a District, East Shawa Zone of Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia
Title | Analysis of Milk Value Chain: the Case of Ada’a Dairy Cooperative in Ada’a District, East Shawa Zone of Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia PDF eBook |
Author | G. Debele |
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Pages | 68 |
Release | 2012 |
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Participatory smallholder dairy value chain development in Fogera woreda, Ethiopia: Experiences from IPMS project interventions
Title | Participatory smallholder dairy value chain development in Fogera woreda, Ethiopia: Experiences from IPMS project interventions PDF eBook |
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Publisher | ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD) |
Pages | 45 |
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Dairy Development in Ethiopia
Title | Dairy Development in Ethiopia PDF eBook |
Author | M. M. Ahmed |
Publisher | ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD) |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Dairy products industry |
ISBN | 929146158X |
Cities, value chains, and dairy production in Ethiopia
Title | Cities, value chains, and dairy production in Ethiopia PDF eBook |
Author | Vandercasteelen, Joachim |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 39 |
Release | 2019-10-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
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This paper explores the spatial heterogeneity in dairy production in the highland production area around the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. We look at how urban proximity – defined as the travel time from the farm to the central market of Addis Ababa – affects the production decisions of Ethiopian dairy farmers. We sampled 870 households from the major rural production zones around Addis Ababa, where villages were stratified according to their distance to Addis Ababa. Using an instrumental variable approach, we find evidence of strong spatial heterogeneity in dairy milk productivity in Ethiopia. With each additional hour of travel time, the milk productivity per cow is reduced by almost 1 liter per day, a reduction by 26 percent on average. This spatial heterogeneity in milk productivity reflects a pronounced spatial variation in dairy production decisions (producing liquid milk or processed dairy products), the application of modern inputs, and marketing. When trying to disentangle the mechanisms through which urban proximity affects dairy productivity, we show that the effect of travel time mainly runs through farmers’ inclusion into ‘modern’ value chains and more specifically through their access to commercial milk buyers. This finding holds when we control for prices, indicating that access to commercial value chains are an important determinant of dairy productivity. However, as only a limited number of farmers now have access to such value chains in these settings, measures to make dairy value chains more inclusive to remote farmers can have important economic development benefits for them.
Transforming agri-food systems in Ethiopia: Evidence from the dairy sector
Title | Transforming agri-food systems in Ethiopia: Evidence from the dairy sector PDF eBook |
Author | Minten, Bart |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 2018-12-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
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In the transformation of agri-food systems in developing countries, we usually see rapid changes in the livestock sector. However, good data for clearly understanding this transformation are often lacking, especially so in Africa. Relying on a combination of diverse large-scale datasets and methods, we analyze transformation patterns in the dairy value chain supplying Addis Ababa, the capital and biggest city of Ethiopia. Over the last decade, we note a rapid increase in expenditures on dairy products by urban consumers, especially among the better-off. Relatedly, the number of dairy processing firms in Ethiopia tripled over the same period, supplying a significant part of these dairy products, especially pasteurized milk, to the city’s residents. The number of dairy traders increased rapidly as well, with competition between them becoming more intense over time. Upstream at the production level, we find improved access to livestock services, higher adoption of cross-bred cows, a shift from grazing to commercial feeds, an increase in milk yields, expanding liquid milk markets, a sizable urban farm sector supplying almost one-third of all liquid milk consumed in the city, and an upscaling process with larger commercial dairy farms becoming more prevalent. However, average milk yields are still low and not all dairy farmers are included in this transformation process. Small farms with dairy animals as well as those in more remote areas benefit less from access to services and adopt less these modern practices. For these more disadvantaged farmers, stagnation in milk yields and even declines – depending on the data source used – are observed.