The Economics of Teff: Exploring Ethiopia’s Biggest Cash Crop
The Economics of Teff: Exploring Ethiopia’s Biggest Cash Crop
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画眉草的经济学：探索埃塞俄比亚最大的经济作物
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2018
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P. Brown
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B. Minten;A. Taffesse;P. Brown
埃塞俄比亚的严重贫困和粮食不安全，加上绝大多数埃塞俄比亚人以农业为生，使农业转型成为该国的一个重要发展目标。一个有希望的改进是增加画眉草的产量，画眉草是一种热量和营养丰富但产量低的主食。Teff的经济学：《探索埃塞俄比亚最大的经济作物》考察了画眉草生产、营销和消费的关键方面，重点关注进一步增长的机遇和挑战。作者指出了实现画眉草潜力的方法，包括提高生产力和适应力，选择和扩大新技术，建立适应不同地区需求的分销系统，管理劳动力需求和采后操作，以及增加进入更大和更多样化市场的机会。本书的分析和政策结论对于政策制定者、研究人员和其他关心埃塞俄比亚经济发展的人来说应该是有用的。
Considerable poverty and food insecurity in Ethiopia, combined with the overwhelming majority of Ethiopians who depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, make agricultural transformation a crucial development goal for the country. One promising improvement is to increase production of teff, the calorie- and nutrient-rich but low-yielding staple. The Economics of Teff: Exploring Ethiopia’s Biggest Cash Crop examines key aspects of teff production, marketing, and consumption, with a focus on opportunities for and challenges to further growth. The authors identify ways to realize teff’s potential, including improving productivity and resilience, selecting and scaling up new technologies, establishing distribution systems adapted to different areas’ needs, managing labor demand and postharvest operations, and increasing access to larger and more diverse markets. The book’s analysis and policy conclusions should be useful to policy makers, researchers, and others concerned with Ethiopia’s economic development.