Impacts of policies and technologies in dryland agriculture: Evidence from northern Ethiopia

Challenges and Strategies of Dryland Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 389-416

  Pender, John ^a   Gebremedhin, Berhanu ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Crop production; Data sources; Fertilizer; Irrigation; Land tenure; Markets; Northern Ethiopia dryland agriculture; Population pressure; Roads; Social capital

Indexed keywords

EID: 85102865804     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2135/cssaspecpub32.c24     Document Type: Chapter

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