Abstract: This study deals with the analysis of dairy industry and its impact on household market participation, income and food security in Mekelle city, Ethiopia. The study employed cross-sectional data obtained from 797 respondents were 427 of them constitute the whole population of producers, processors and traders and 370 were consumers selected using multistage random sampling technique. The data were analyzed using value chain mapping, descriptive statistics, cost-margin analysis and ...
Abstract: Despite there being favorable conditions for potato production there are a number of challenges that face smallholder potato farmers in Ethiopia and hence studying determinants of potato production is important. This study was aimed at identifying and analyzing fundamental socio-economic, production, and institutional factors affecting potato production and analyzing the opportunities and constraints of potato production at the smallholder farmers’ level. A multi-stage random sam...
Abstract: Access to safe drinking water is a fundamental human need for improving their livelihood and it is an essential input for industry, energy production, and agriculture. However, access to safely managed drinking water remains to be the problem faced by households. The extent to which households contribute in the form of WTP for the proposed water supply improvement is very crucial. Therefore, this research was designed to estimate households mean WTP for improved water supply servic...
Abstract: Despite high livestock population and existing favorable environmental conditions, the current livestock output of Ethiopia is little. The availability of feed resources and the nutritional quality of the available feeds are the most important factors that determine the productivity of livestock.. Adopting improved forages is necessary to alleviate the often said problem nutritionally rich feed shortage. The seed of these improved forages should be available to farmers at reasonabl...
Abstract: Pepper is an important cash crop for its contribution to income generating, employment opportunity and improvement of food security to majority of the rural household. However, enhancing pepper producers to reach market and actively engage in the pepper value chain is a key issue needed in the study area. This study was undertaken to map red pepper value chain actors and identifying their roles and linkage; analyzing marketing margins across the channel; analyzing determinants of m...
Abstract: Chronic food insecurity is one of the main problems which affected millions of Ethiopians for centuries. In 2005, to solve the problem of food insecurity and move away from the previous system of annual emergency appeals, the Ethiopian government in collaboration with development partners launched social protection program called productive safety net program. This study was conducted to identify factors affecting participation in productive safety net program and to evaluate its i...
Abstract: Several decisions are made by farm households with family members who contribute labor, time, and knowledge, and by those who have stake in all activities of households. These members mainly include the household head (male or female), spouse, productive youth, and the elderly. Rural women in the developing world in general and throughout Ethiopia in particular make critical contributions to household agricultural production and consequently to household and national food security....
Abstract: In developing countries, micro and small enterprises are recognized as important vehicles of economic growth, employment creation, income generation and poverty reduction. This study aimed at identifying the determinants of micro and small enterprises participation in business development services in Jigjiga city of Somali region. Random selection of 127 micro and small enterprises from the city was chosen to collect primary data, although only 123 Enterprises responded. Data were ...
Abstract: Goats are important to the socioeconomic wellbeing of the pastoralists in Moyale district in terms of nutrition, income and intangible benefits. However, the development of the subsector faces challenges such as information about market actors, what determines goat market participation and supply, information about market margin and outlet preference. Therefore, this study was aimed to analyze goat market chain in Moyale district. Both primary and secondary data were used for the s...
Abstract: Despite, increasing the agricultural sector's productivity is seen as the main path out of poverty in the country; Ethiopia has not yet realized its full agricultural potential as farming practices are still subsistence-oriented. In this regard, Cluster Farming (CF) is practiced more recently as an effort to transform subsistence farming. However, little is known about CF in the study areas. To this end, this study aimed at identifying the determinants of cluster farming participat...
Abstract: Despite the designed policy strategies for boosting agricultural productivity, the production and productivity was remained very low in Ethiopia. A key theme and policy priority for increasing farm productivity is addressing smallholder farmers' limited and variable crop yields in line with their productive capacity. Therefore, this study was developed to identify the technical efficiency level, assessing factors affecting the adoption of improved wheat varieties and its impact on ...
Abstract: Video-mediated extension is among the ICT based approaches employed recently to support agricultural extension and advisory services towards the promotion of improved technologies and practices. Despite a growing interest and expectations from this approach to address the major limitations of the conventional extension system, there is limited rigorous empirical evidence on its effectiveness in agricultural extension and advisory services. The purpose of the study was to assess the...
The study analyzes the relationship between private transfers, foreign direct investment (FDI) and official transfers in Ghana. The research relies on the quarterly frequency time series data from the Ghana Statistical Service for the period 2003-2022. Phillips-Perron (PP) test and the Engle-Granger approach were used to investigate the properties of the data concerning unit roots and cointegration respectively. The ordinary least squares (OLS) regression technique and Granger causality test ...
The empirical studies have portrayed from a different perspective that technology, foreign direct investment (FDI), and economic growth have diverse outcomes on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. African economies specifically Kenya are currently threatened with more CO2 emissions for which proper strategies need to be adopted to reduce and mitigate this situation. To address this issue, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) technique was utilized, differentiating between the long-term and s...
Abstract This study seek to find out factors affecting tax compliance behavior among SMEs in Kano Metropolis. The study adopts survey research design to source and analyze data. Simple random sample was used as the sampling technique for this study. Questionnaires were designed and distributed to the sampled SMEs within Kano metropolis. The population of the study comprises 520 registered SMEs within Kano Metropolis, out of which 500 SMES were selected as sample. Data collected were an...