Sugarcane outgrowers in Ethiopia: ’forced’ to remain poor?
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Sugarcane outgrowers in Ethiopia : ’forced’ to remain poor? / Assefa Wendimu, Mengistu ; Henningsen, Arne; Gibbon, Peter .
Frederiksberg : Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2015.Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
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T1 - Sugarcane outgrowers in Ethiopia
T2 - ’forced’ to remain poor?
AU - Assefa Wendimu, Mengistu
AU - Henningsen, Arne
AU - Gibbon, Peter
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Contract farming is often seen as a panacea to many of the challenges faced by agricultural production in developing countries. Given the large heterogeneity of contract farming arrangements, it is debatable whether all kinds of contract farming arrangements offer benefits to participating smallholders. We apply matching methods to analyze the effects of a public sugarcane outgrower scheme in Ethiopia. Participation in the outgrower scheme significantly reduces the income and asset stocks of outgrowers who contributed irrigated land to the outgrower scheme, while the effect was insignificant for outgrowers who contributed rain-fed land. We provide several explanations and discuss policy implications.
AB - Contract farming is often seen as a panacea to many of the challenges faced by agricultural production in developing countries. Given the large heterogeneity of contract farming arrangements, it is debatable whether all kinds of contract farming arrangements offer benefits to participating smallholders. We apply matching methods to analyze the effects of a public sugarcane outgrower scheme in Ethiopia. Participation in the outgrower scheme significantly reduces the income and asset stocks of outgrowers who contributed irrigated land to the outgrower scheme, while the effect was insignificant for outgrowers who contributed rain-fed land. We provide several explanations and discuss policy implications.
M3 - Working paper
T3 - IFRO Working Paper
BT - Sugarcane outgrowers in Ethiopia
PB - Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen
CY - Frederiksberg
ER -
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