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Plante racine --- Root crops --- Rhizome --- Rhizomes --- Pays développé --- Developed countries --- Pays en développement --- Developing countries --- Production --- FAO --- Collecte de données --- data collection --- Méthode statistique --- Statistical methods --- world --- 633.4 --- <1-773> --- Edible roots and tubers. Root crops --- Gebieden in ontwikkeling. Ontwikkelingslanden --- <1-773> Gebieden in ontwikkeling. Ontwikkelingslanden --- 633.4 Edible roots and tubers. Root crops

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Developing countries: agricultural and food problems --- Ethiopia

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This paper uses a partial equilibrium framework to evaluate the relative efficiency, distributional and revenue implications of rice tariffs and targeted transfers in Madagascar, especially in the context of identifying their respective roles for poverty alleviation. Although there are likely to be substantial efficiency gains from tariff reductions, these accrue mainly to higher income households. In addition, poor net rice sellers will lose from lower tariffs. Developing a system of well designed and implemented targeted direct transfers to poor households is thus likely to be a substantially more costeffective approach to poverty alleviation. Such an approach should be financed by switching revenue raising from rice tariffs to more efficient tax instruments. These policy conclusions are likely to be robust to the incorporation of general equilibrium considerations.

Business & Economics --- Industries --- Rice trade --- Tariff on farm produce --- Poverty --- Econometric models. --- Madagascar --- Economic policy --- Economic conditions --- Destitution --- Farm produce --- Tariff on agricultural products --- Rice industry --- Tariff --- Madagaskar --- Democratic Republic of Madagascar --- Repoblika Demokratika n'i Madagaskar --- Repoblika Demokratika Malagasy --- République démocratique de Madagascar --- RDM --- Repoblikan'i Madagasikara --- République de Madagascar --- Repoblikan'i Madakasikara --- Madagasikara --- Republic of Madagascar --- マダガスカル --- Madagasukaru --- מדגסקר --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Grain trade --- Malagasy Republic --- Investments: Commodities --- Exports and Imports --- Macroeconomics --- Taxation --- Trade Policy --- International Trade Organizations --- Agriculture: General --- Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions --- Trade: General --- Macroeconomics: Consumption --- Saving --- Public finance & taxation --- Investment & securities --- International economics --- Tariffs --- Agricultural commodities --- Personal income --- Imports --- Consumption --- Income --- Economics --- Madagascar, Republic of

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The perception of Ethiopia projected in the media is often one of chronic poverty and hunger, but this bleak assessment does not accurately reflect most of the country today. Ethiopia encompasses a wide variety of agroecologies and peoples. Its agriculture sector, economy, and food security status are equally complex. In fact, since 2001 the per capita income in certain rural areas has risen by more than 50 percent, and crop yields and availability have also increased. Higher investments in roads and mobile phone technology have led to improved infrastructure and thereby greater access to markets, commodities, services, and information. In Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges, Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid, along with other experts, tell the story of Ethiopia's political, economic, and agricultural transformation. The book is designed to provide empirical evidence to shed light on the complexities of agricultural and food policy in today's Ethiopia, highlight major policies and interventions of the past decade, and provide insights into building resilience to natural disasters and food crises. It examines the key issues, constraints, and opportunities that are likely to shape a food-secure future in Ethiopia, focusing on land quality, crop production, adoption of high-quality seed and fertilizer, and household income. Students, researchers, policy analysts, and decisionmakers will find this book a useful overview of Ethiopia's political, economic, and agricultural transformation as well as a resource for major food policy issues in Ethiopia. Contributors: Dawit Alemu, Guush Berhane, Jordan Chamberlin, Sarah Coll-Black, Paul Dorosh, Berhanu Gebremedhin, Sinafikeh Asrat Gemessa, Daniel O. Gilligan, John Graham, Kibrom Tafere Hirfrfot, John Hoddinott, Adam Kennedy, Neha Kumar, Mehrab Malek, Linden McBride, Dawit Kelemework Mekonnen, Asfaw Negassa, Shahidur Rashid, Emily Schmidt, David Spielman, Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse, Seneshaw Tamiru, James Thurlow, William Wiseman.

Agriculture --- Agricultural systems --- Farming systems --- Systems, Agricultural --- Systems, Farming --- Agricultural geography --- Farm management --- Business. --- Economics.

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Poverty --- Structural adjustment (Economic policy) --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- Economic policy.