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Improving coffee productivity in Ethiopia: The impact of a coffee tree rejuvenation training program on stumping

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  • Abate, Gashaw Tadesse
  • Bernard, Tanguy
  • Regassa, Mekdim D.
  • Minten, Bart

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Coffee is Ethiopia’s most important export commodity, cultivated by over 6 million smallholder farmers in the country, and accounting for about one-third of the country’s commodity exports. While coffee production has increased over the last decade, coffee yields are low and several constraints to improved productivity remain. With two-three decades old and low-yielding coffee trees in particular, the sector cannot attain its full potential. In this paper, we assess the short-term impact of a coffee tree rejuvenation training program in Sidama on adoption rate and intensity of stumping – currently the best practice to revitalize ageing coffee trees and substantially improve their productivity. Using baseline and follow-up data and a difference-in-difference approach, we find that the adoption rate and intensity of stumping has increased by about threefold during the first year of the rejuvenation training intervention.

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  • Abate, Gashaw Tadesse & Bernard, Tanguy & Regassa, Mekdim D. & Minten, Bart, 2021. "Improving coffee productivity in Ethiopia: The impact of a coffee tree rejuvenation training program on stumping," IFPRI discussion papers 2023, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    • Handle: RePEc:fpr:ifprid:2023
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    ETHIOPIA; EAST AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA; AFRICA; coffee; agricultural productivity; coffee industry; commodities; plant rejuvenation; stumping; coffee farm college;
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