Browsing by Author "Köhlin, Gunnar"
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Are Agricultural Extension Packages What Ethiopian Farmers Want? A Stated Preference Analysis
Yesuf, Mahmud; Mekonnen, Alemu; Köhlin, Gunnar; Carlsson, Fredrik (2005)There is an evident dichotomy in many rural development policies in the world between extension driven adoption of modern inputs and community driven local public goods. However, the target populations of these policies ... -
Biomass Fuel Consumption and Dung Use as Manure - Evidence from Rul Households in the Amrahara Region of Ethiopia
Mekonnen, Alemu; Köhlin, Gunnar (2009-11-19)Soil nutrient depletion is a critical problem, contributing to low agricultural productivity and the limited domestic food supply in sub-Saharan Africa. Fertilizer use in Ethiopia is one of the lowest in sub-Saharan ... -
Can local communities in Zimbabwe be trusted with wildlife management?: Evidence from contingent valuation of elephants
Muchapondwa, Edwin; Carlsson, Fredrik; Köhlin, Gunnar (2009-11-19)If local communities living adjacent to the elephant see it as a burden, then they cannot be trusted to be its stewards. To assess their valuation of it, a CVM study was conducted for one CAMPFIRE district in Zimbabwe. ... -
Contingent valuation of community plantations in Ethiopia: a look into value elicitation formats and intra-household preference variations
Mekonnen, Alemu; Köhlin, Gunnar; Carlsson, Fredrik (2004)This paper is an application of the contingent valuation method on community plantations in the highlands of Ethiopia. A discrete-continuous elicitation format was applied. It was found that there is a problem in applying ... -
Decision-making within the Household: The Role of Autonomy and Differences in Preferences
Alem, Yonas; Hassen, Sied; Köhlin, Gunnar (2018-03)We use a field experiment to identify how differences in preferences and autonomy in decision-making result in sub-optimal adoption of technologies that can maximize the welfare of all members of the household. We create ... -
Determinants of Household Fuel Choice in Major Cities in Ethiopia
Mekonnen, Alemu; Köhlin, Gunnar (2009-11-30)This paper looks at the fuel choice of urban households in major Ethiopian cities, using panel data collected in 2000 and 2004. It examines use of multiple fuels by households in some detail, a topic not much explored ... -
Economics of Soil Conservation Adoption in High-Rainfall Areas of the Ethiopian Highlands
Kassie, Menale; Holden, Stein; Köhlin, Gunnar; Bluffstone, Randy (2009-11-30)This study measures the impact of fanya juu bunds (an important soil and water conservation technology and the most popular type of contour bund in east Africa) on the value of crop production in a high-rainfall area in ... -
Estimating Returns to Soil and Water Conservation Investments - An Application to Crop Yield in Kenya
Nyangena, Wilfred; Köhlin, Gunnar (2009-11-30)Productivity gains from soil and water conservation (SWC) have empirical support in research stations. Previous empirical results from on-farm adoption of SWC are, however, varied. This study investigated the impact of ... -
Household Tree Planting in Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia: Tree Species, Purposes, and Determinants
Gebreegziabher, Zenebe; Mekonnen, Alemu; Kassie, Menale; Köhlin, Gunnar (2010-02-18)Trees have multiple purposes in rural Ethiopia, providing significant economic and ecological benefits. Planting trees supplies rural households with wood products for their own consumption, as well for sale, and decreases ... -
Life Satisfaction in Urban Ethiopia: Trends and determinants
Alem, Yonas; Köhlin, Gunnar (2012-12)Most studies of subjective well-being in developing countries use cross-sectional data, which makes it difficult to control for unobserved individual heterogeneity. In this paper, we use three rounds of panel data and ... -
Market Imperfections and Farm Technology Adoption Decisions - A Case Study from the Highlands of Ethiopia
Yesuf, Mahmud; Köhlin, Gunnar (2009-11-30)This paper investigates the impacts of market and institutional imperfections on technology adoption in a model that considers fertilizer use and soil conservation to be joint decisions. Controlling for plot characteristics ... -
Modelling Household Cooking Fuel Choice: a Panel Multinomial Logit Approach
Alem, Yonas; Beyene, Abebe D.; Köhlin, Gunnar; Mekonnen, Alemmu (2015-10)We use three rounds of a rich panel data set to investigate the determinants of household cooking fuel choice and energy transition in urban Ethiopia. We observe that the expected energy transition did not occur following ... -
Organic Farming Technologies and Agricultural Productivity: The case of Semi-Arid Ethiopia
Kassie, Menale; Zikhali, Precious; Pender, John; Köhlin, Gunnar (2008-12-16)Organic farming practices, in as far as they rely on local or farm renewable resources, present desirable options for enhancing agricultural productivity for resource-constrained farmers in developing countries. In this ... -
Risk Implications of Farm Technology Adoption in the Ethiopian Highlands
Yesuf, Mahmud; Kassie, Menale; Köhlin, Gunnar (2009-11-30)In countries where insurance and credit markets are thin or missing, production and consumption risks play a critical role in the choice and use of production inputs and adoption of new farm technologies. In this paper, ... -
The Role of Production Risk in Sustainable Land-Management Technology Adoption in the Ethiopian Highlands
Kassie, Menale; Yesuf, Mahmud; Köhlin, Gunnar (2009-11-30)This paper provides empirical evidence of production risk impact on sustainable land- management technology adoption, using two years of cross-sectional plot-level data collected in the Ethiopian highlands. We used a ... -
The Role of Soil Conservation on Mean Crop Yield and Variance of Yield - Evidence from the Ethiopian Highlands
Kassie, Menale; Pender, John; Yesuf, Mahmud; Köhlin, Gunnar; Mulugeta, Elias (2009-11-30)Land degradation has been one of the major areas of concern in Ethiopia. Governments and development agencies have invested substantial resources to promote land management technologies and reduce land degradation. ... -
Soil Conservation and Small-Scale Food Production in Highland Ethiopia A Stochastic Metafrontier Approach
Medhin, Haileselassie A.; Köhlin, Gunnar (2009-11-30)This study adopts the stochastic metafrontier approach to investigate the role of soil conservation in small-scale highland agriculture in Ethiopia. Plot-level stochastic frontiers and metafrontier technology-gap ratios ... -
Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Agricultural Productivity in Ethiopia: Does Agroecology Matter?
Kassie, Menale; Zikhali, Precious; Pender, John; Köhlin, Gunnar (2009-11-30)Sustainable agricultural practices, in as far as they rely on renewable local or farm resources, present desirable options for enhancing agricultural productivity for resource-constrained farmers in developing countries. ... -
The Dynamics of Electric Cookstove Adoption: Panel data evidence from Ethiopia
Alem, Yonas; Hassen, Sied; Köhlin, Gunnar (2013-02)Previous studies on improved cookstove adoption in developing countries use cross-sectional data, which makes it difficult to control for unobserved heterogeneity and investigate what happens to adoption over time. We use ... -
The Persistence of Subjective Poverty in Urban Ethiopia
Alem, Yonas; Köhlin, Gunnar; Stage, Jesper (2012-12)Using panel data spanning 15 years, this paper investigates the persistence and correlates of subjective and consumption poverty in urban Ethiopia. Despite the decline in consumption poverty in recent years, which has been ...