What is it about?
Teff is a major cereal of Ethiopia. To ensure the availability of teff in the domestic market, the government of Ethiopia baned teff export. Our study demonstrates that teff is produced by rural resource-poor farmers but consume by urban and economically affluent households. This study thus indicates that the teff export ban may not bring fruitful results for the resource-poor farmers.
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Why is it important?
Teff is the major cereal of Ethiopia, and also a major crop of the country. It is important to ensure market price and therefore the income of the teff producing resource-poor farmers of Ethiopia. This study indirectly indicates that delinking from the global value chain by banning teff export may not bring benefits to the teff producing farmers of Ethiopia.
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This is the first paper on teff producers and consumers in Ethiopia. We applied a simple econometric estimation approach in this study. I hope readers will enjoy this paper.
Dr Khondoker A. Mottaleb
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
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This page is a summary of: Household production and consumption patterns of Teff
in Ethiopia, Agribusiness, January 2018, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/agr.21550.
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