Gendered impacts of climate change on agricultural production, rural livelihood, and food security in East Africa

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The main objective of this research is to investigate the level of heterogeneity in crop selection, yields, and sales resulting from information sharing among farmers and market actors in the beneficiary areas of the JICA-SHEP project in Ethiopia. The specific objective of this study is to examine the potential homogenizing effects of information sharing on three key variables, namely crop selection, yields, and crop sales, among horticultural crop-producing farmers in both the Oromia and Amhara regions of Ethiopia, using cross-sectional data. Data were collected from 300 participants of the SHEP project and 300 non-participants in the Oromia region in Ethiopia in December 2022. To prevent the spillover effect of the SHEP project intervention, the data were collected from three categories of farmers: the treated group in the treated areas (200, consisting of 149 male and 51 female farmers), the control group in the treated areas (200, consisting of 145 male and 55 female farmers), and the pure control group in the control area (200, consisting of 129 male and 71 female farmers).