Agricultural data for Ethiopia, gathered from research institutes and government sources into one searchable catalogue.
1,021–1,030 of 1,112 datasets
CIMMYT Ethiopia
Summary results and individual trial results from the International Late Yellow Hybrid - ILYH, (Tropical Three Way Crosses Yellow Late Normal Hybrid - TTWCYL) conducted in 2014.
CIMMYT Ethiopia
The Semi-Arid Wheat Yield Trial (SAWYT) is a replicated yield trial that contains spring bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) germplasm adapted to low rainfall, drought prone environments typically receiving less than 500 mm of water available during the cropping cycle. The combination of water-use efficiency and water responsive broad adaptation plus yield potential is important in drought environments where rainfall is frequently erratic across and within years. Stripe rust, leaf rust and stem rust, root rots, nematodes, and bunts are the key biotic constraints. Typical target environments include winter rain or Mediterranean-type drought associated with post-flowering moisture stress and heat stress such as those found at Aleppo (Syria), Settat (Morocco) and Marcos Juarez (Argentina), all classified by CIMMYT within Wheat Mega Environment 4 (Low rainfall, semi-arid environment; ME4: SA). It is distributed to 150 locations, and contains 50 entries.
CIMMYT Ethiopia
This report presents the synthesis of household level surveys in five intervention countries (Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) of the Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project designed and implemented by the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and national research and extension institutions in 13 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In each of the study countries, two districts were randomly selected provided that the districts fall in predetermined categories (20-40%) of probability of failed season (PFS). A total sample of 1108 households was randomly drawn with sample sizes varying country to country. The report has different sections that focus, in order, on description of the sample households, extent and determinants of poverty and inequality among the sample population, characteristics of maize production, perception and management of drought risk, and determinants of likelihood and intensity of adoption of improved maize varieties.
CIMMYT Ethiopia
Agriculture in eastern Africa is predominantly rainfed and maize is a major food crop, primarily produced for home consumption and the market by small-scale family farms. The study characterized farm households in the drought prone maize growing areas of eastern Africa synthesizing data from parallel household surveys in Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The study provides a comparative analysis of the farm households’ assets, livelihood strategies and crop management practices, with an emphasis on maize and maize seed. This illustrates how farmers in a similar agro-ecological environment but with different socio-economic and institutional settings have variously adapted to living with drought and how the inherent weather risk co-determines the livelihood portfolio, agricultural intensification incentives and system development pathways. The study thereby illustrates the challenges for agricultural intensification in such drought prone environments and the scope for drought tolerant maize varieties and explores the research and development implications.
CIMMYT Ethiopia
Integrated crop livestock production systems are among the principal modes of livelihood in rural Zimbabwe. Nonetheless, the dynamics in each of the different components in such systems and the potential impact of technologies that enhance integration of these components at household level is hardly known. Concomitantly, CIMMYT, ICRISAT, ILRI and the government of Zimbabwe have designed and started to implement a project entitled “Integrating crops and livestock for improved food security and livelihoods in rural Zimbabwe”. The project is funded by the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and aims at increasing agricultural production through better integration of crop and livestock production and improved market functioning that will contribute to enhanced resilience of communities most vulnerable to food insecurity in rural Zimbabwe. This survey is designed to generate baseline information that will establish references for different measurements to be done in order to develop household typologies and quantify impact of the interventions to be made by or due to the project.
CIMMYT Ethiopia
The development of relatively sophisticated actors along the agricultural value chains is an important precursor for agricultural development. In staple crop value chains for example, innovations around warehouse receipting and collateralization can enable farmers to successfully engage in temporal and spatial arbitrage, thereby opening opportunities to improve producer prices and expanding market horizons and creating greater market opportunities for rural households. This study summarizes the results of a market survey conducted in Eastern and Western Kenya as well as the major maize and legume markets in Ethiopia to identify key indicators of modernizing maize and legume markets in those countries. Using data from a market survey of 275 and 106 maize and /or legume traders in Ethiopia and Kenya respectively, evidence of modernization was summarized in terms of the following parameters. The existence of impersonal exchange, contract-based transactions, price information systems, standardization and quality differentiation. The survey finds that most maize and legume markets do not rely on contractual arrangements, formal price systems, do not have credit facilities to farmers and have no universal quality standardization. Two main gaps were identified. The need for formal price information systems based on widely accepted quality definitions and the need to develop the infrastructure for auxiliary services such as credit, forward sales, transportation and grading among others. On future research, empirical analyses should focus on determining the key financial, efficiency and development gains in such measures as standardized grades and quality, contracting and vertically integration.