Enhancing Youth Employment Opportunities in Rural Economies in Ethiopia
This report assesses the youth employment conditions in rural Ethiopia and evaluates the performance of the rural youth employment creation initiatives.
PARI Research Outputs
PARI research focuses on identifying and scaling promising agricultural innovations for agricultural growth and food security in Africa and India.
PARI Policy Brief No. 17: Improving Protein Nutrition of Dairy Cattle in the Tropics
This policy brief highlights important challenges and possible options for improved cattle nutrition in order to sustainably intensify dairy farming in the Tropics.
PARI Policy Brief No. 15: Seed System Development: Fertile Grounds In Sub-Saharan Africa
This Policy Brief proposes an agenda for supporting sustainable development of seed systems in Africa.
The complementarity of education and use of productive inputs among smallholder farmers in Africa
This study seeks to assess the complementarity of education and use of agricultural inputs–improved seeds, fertilizers, access to credit facilities (loans), and the incremental effects of education on intermediate to longer-term economic outcomes (consumption, expenditure and poverty) among smallholder farmers in four countries in SSA Africa (Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria and Tanzania).
The Agricultural Mechanization in Africa: Micro-level Analysis of State Drivers and Effects
This paper examines the state, drivers and, consequently, the impacts of agricultural mechanization in eleven countries in Africa.
Innovation Opportunities for Wheat and Faba Bean Value Chains in Ethiopia
This study is designed to assess the adoption, production, productivity, efficiency and supply of two major crops widely produced in Ethiopia (wheat and faba bean).
Evaluation of Modern Agricultural Technologies Adoption and Impact of Adoption on Productivity
The study examines the determinants for adoption of agricultural technologies mainly chemical fertilizer and improved seed.
Adoption of Technologies and Crop Productivity in Ethiopia: The Role of Agricultural Information
This study attempts to identify the type and channels of acquiring, agricultural information; and whether this information helps them in their decisions to adopt new technologies, and how using such inputs is translated into better and higher yield.
Agricultural Extension Service and Technology Adoption for Food and Nutrition Security: Evidence from Ethiopia
This paper looks at the adoption decisions and the complementarities among labor-intensive technologies and comprehensive use of modern inputs.
PARI Policy Brief No. 11: Realizing the Potential of Digital Technologies for Agricultural Development in Africa
This policy brief discusses opportunities and challenges for scaling digital technologies in African agriculture.
PARI Policy Brief No. 10: Innovations to Overcome Increasingly Complex Problems of Hunger
Alternative Pathways towards Food Security.
Mechanization in African Agriculture: A Continental Overview on Patterns and Dynamics
This study looks in to pattern of agricultural mechanization along the entire value chain (production, post-harvest, processing, transport and storage) and compares it with the annual average agricultural output over the same time period.