期刊名称：Ethiopian e-Journal for Research and Innovation Foresight
电子版ISSN：2042-6356
出版年度：2012
卷号：4
期号：1
出版社：NES-Global
摘要：This paper addresses the issue of rural poverty and food insecurity in Ethiopia, with the aim of exploring some policy options for their eradication. Specifically, it discusses the role of agriculture in alleviating poverty and food insecurity. The paper also explores the general problem of ‘Environment-Food Security- Rural Poverty cycle’, with emphasis on the need to develop productive and sustainable institutions and technologies aimed at eradicating absolute poverty, food insecurity and natural resource degradation (soil erosion and deforestation). Based on data from the First Round Ethiopian Household Survey conducted in 1994, it develops and uses an analytical model (known as Social Accounting Matrix or SAM) to show the nature of linkages within the agricultural/rural economy. Based on household data from peasant associations (PAs), the analysis also provides production trends and determinants or constraints of food crop production for selected provinces or zones. The paper shows the weak nature of linkages among the sub-sectors of the rural economy, and concludes by drawing some policy implications from the literature reviewed and the results of the analytical case model. An important policy implication of the paper is the critical need to develop market and non-market institutions to increase agricultural productivity and to overcome crop production constraints and the weak linkages in the rural economy, in order to eradicate absolute poverty and food insecurity. The paper is part of work in progress that will be further developed and revised based on more data from Ethiopia.
