IFPRI in Ethiopia
Priorities
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in
eastern and southern Africa engages in research, capacity
strengthening, and advocacy related to the most pressing
issues facing the region. IFPRI’s regional focus aligns with
the tenets of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture
Development Program (CAADP) which seeks to: extend the
area under sustainable land management and reliable
water-control systems; improve market access; increase
food security; and improve agricultural research, technology
dissemination, adoption, and education.
The IFPRI presence in eastern and southern Africa also
includes country strategy support programs in Ethiopia,
Malawi, Mozambique, and Uganda. The Ethiopia Strategy
Support Program (ESSP) is a collaborative program
undertaken by IFPRI and the Ethiopian Development
Research Institute. The core purpose of ESSP is to help
improve the policy-making process in Ethiopia. Increasing
the capacity of Ethiopian institutions to undertake sound
economic analysis linked to current issues, and improving
public information and dialogue, form the cornerstone of
evidence-based policy-making. This is achieved through four
key activities: 1) Collaborative research; 2) Robust
knowledge management; 3) Capacity strengthening and
increased knowledge dissemination and 4) Enhanced
communications and institutional linkages.
Progress
• Productivity, technology adoption and agricultural
transformation increases
• Growth in agricultural markets, value chains and
agroindustry
• Reductions in food and agricultural prices
• Reductions in risk, and increases in insurance uptake
and investment
• Enhancement of land and water management
• Improvements in poverty, nutrition, and safety nets
• Agricultural growth program impact evaluation
undertaken
• Feed the Future program impact evaluation undertaken
• Introduction of social cash transfer program
• Undertook macro-economic analysis of Ethiopia’s new
Growth and Transformation Plan 2015–2020
• Improved agriculture and nutritional linkages
• Understanding of food system transformation
• Enhancing ICT use in rural cooperatives and agriculture
• Key CAADP indicators tracked
• Improvement in income generating activities and
household assets
• Cereal value chain studies undertaken
• Agricultural input marketing studies (seed, fertilizer, and
rural finance) undertaken
• Gender in agriculture studies undertaken
• Behavioural change among pastoralists in improving
nutritional intake
Partners
• African Union Commission
• Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources
• Addis Ababa University (Economics Department)
• Agricultural Transformation Agency
• Central Statistical Agency
• Ethiopian Development Research Institute
• Ethiopian Economics Association
• Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research
• Federal Cooperative Agency
• Jigjiga University
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Projects
• Ethiopia strategy support program
• Regional strategic analysis and knowledge support
system
• Household asset-building program
• Transform nutrition
• Ethiopia’s research for agricultural policy
• Agriculture for nutrition and health
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