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Sugarcane outgrowers in Ethiopia:’forced’ to remain poor?

Year: 2015

Type: report

Abstract: Contract farming is often seen as a panacea to many of the challenges faced by agricultural production in developing countries. Given the large heterogeneity of contract farming arrangements, it is debatable whether all kinds of contract farming arrangements offer benefits to participating smallholders. We apply matching methods to analyze the effects of a public sugarcane outgrower scheme in Ethiopia. Participation in the outgrower scheme significantly reduces the income and asset stocks of outgrowers who contributed irrigated land to the outgrower scheme, while the effect was insignificant for outgrowers who contributed rain-fed land. We provide several explanations and discuss policy implications.

Source: Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen)

Authors: Assefa Wendimu, Mengistu, Henningsen, Arne, Gibbon, Peter

Institution: Danish Institute for International Studies

Language: English

Topic: Agricultural Innovations and Practices

Subfield: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Field: Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Domain: Life Sciences

SDGs: No poverty, Zero hunger, Decent work and economic growth, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W7135436437

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