IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/fpr/annrep/174466.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Ethiopia: Cost effective options for inclusive and sustainable development

Author

Listed:
  • Aragie, Emerta A.
  • Thurlow, James
  • Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum
  • Pauw, Karl
  • Jones, Eleanor

Abstract

In this policy brief, we present findings of a systematic evaluation and ranking of investment options for Ethiopia’s agrifood system based on their cost-effectiveness in achieving multiple development outcomes, including agrifood gross domestic product (GDP) growth, agrifood job creation, poverty reduction, declining undernourishment, and lowering diet deprivation. Additionally, the study assesses their environmental footprint, focusing on water consumption, land use, and emissions. Investments in small and medium enterprise (SME) traders and processors are shown to be the most cost effective at driving improvements in social outcomes, like poverty and undernourishment. They are also highly ranked in terms of expanding agrifood GDP and employment. Extension services for livestock, credit for farmers, R&D (agronomy), and safety nets also rank high. However, many cost-effective investments have relatively high environmental footprints, which highlights potential tradeoffs. The study further reveals shifts in the cost-effectiveness ranking of investment options overtime and when extreme production shocks occur.

Suggested Citation

  • Aragie, Emerta A. & Thurlow, James & Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum & Pauw, Karl & Jones, Eleanor, 2025. "Ethiopia: Cost effective options for inclusive and sustainable development," Annual reports 1, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    • Handle: RePEc:fpr:annrep:174466
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174466
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:fpr:annrep:174466. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ifprius.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.