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SUBMITTER: Abate GT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6108534 | biostudies-other | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Abate Gashaw Tadesse GT Bernard Tanguy T de Brauw Alan A Minot Nicholas N
Agricultural economics (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 20180702 4
In 2013, Ethiopia's Agricultural Transformation Agency introduced the Wheat Initiative to increase smallholder productivity. In this article, we measure the impacts of the Wheat Initiative package of technologies, and its marketing assistance component alone, on yields among a promotional group of farmers. The package includes improved techniques, improved inputs, and a guaranteed market for the crop. Relying on crop-cut measures and farmers' own assessments, we find that full package led to an ...[more]