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Land management, crop production, and household income in the highlands of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia: an econometric analysis.

Year: 2006

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Low agricultural productivity, poverty, and land degradation are critical and closely related problems in the Ethiopian highlands. These problems are particularly severe in the highlands of Tigray in northern Ethiopia. Cereal yields average less than 1 ton per hectare in this region, and over half of the area of the Tigray highlands has been characterized as severely degraded, according to one study (Hurni 1988).1 The average farm size is only 1 hectare, and most households subsist on incomes of less than $1 per day (based on results of the survey discussed in this chapter).

Source: IFPRI E-brary (International Food Policy Research Institute)

Authors: John Pender, Berhanu Gebremedhin

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, Life on land

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W792445565

FWCI: 16.88

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Cited by: 80

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