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Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia: Does Agroecology Matter?

This paper investigates the impact of sustainable agricultural practices on crop productivity, particularly whether reduced tillage results in more or less productivity gain than chemical fertilizer.

The authors’ results, using two sets of plot-level data in Ethiopia, revealed clear superiority of reduced tillage over fertilizer in enhancing productivity in the low-rainfall region. In the high-rainfall region, fertilizer is overwhelmingly superior and reduced tillage potentially results in productivity losses. This underscores the need to understand the role of agroecology in determining the profitability of farm technologies.

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  • eeu sweden
  • ethiopia

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  • EfD Discussion paper

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Kassie, Menale, Precious Zikhali, John Pender, and Gunnar Köhlin (2009), "Sustainable Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia: Does Agroecology Matter?", EfD Discussion Paper 09-12, Environment for Development Initiative and Resources for the Future, Washington DC, April 2009.

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