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Kate Amber is a Senior Research Fellow in the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Unit. Kate’s research broadly focuses on interventions that can increase incomes for smallholders and other microenterprises in agrifood value chains, with a specific focus on the inclusion of women. This includes work on programming in fragile settings, innovations in agricultural finance, and regulatory solutions for food safety. 

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Emerta Aragie

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Emerta A. Aragie is a Research Fellow in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit. He is an economist whose research focuses on computable general equilibrium based ex ante analyses of the impacts of investment and agricultural policies in developing countries on income distribution, poverty, and food security. His past research focused on evaluating the consequences of climate change on internal migration, prioritizing public investment policies, and analyzing agricultural trade. His current research focuses on Africa south of the Sahara and has involved studies on Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, and Uganda.

Before joining IFPRI in 2018, Emerta worked as an economic modeler at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). He holds a PhD in economics from Oxford Brookes University, UK.

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Prioritizing agri-food system investments under climatic and world price risks

2024Aragie, Emerta A.
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Prioritizing agri-food system investments under climatic and world price risks

With a population exceeding 120 million, Ethiopia is home to 77 million people who directly depend on agriculture for their livelihoods (World Bank, 2024a). The country registered robust agricultural growth of about 5% on average for a decade since 2013 (NBE, 2023). The Ethiopian government has been encouraged to target its development interventions to sustain and accelerate the growth and transformation of the economy (IFAD, 2023; Aragie & Balié, 2019). However, the pattern of support and the composition of growth are critical factors influencing changes in poverty, employment, and diet quality (Christiaensen & Martin, 2018; Pham & Riedel, 2019). Assessing the linkages between economic growth and poverty, employment, and diet quality is a topic of importance to both country policymakers and their development partners. Few studies, including Fan and Zhang (2008), Aragie, et al (2022), Benfica, et al. (2019) and Pauw and Thurlow (2015), have so far assessed and ranked various on-farm and off-farm interventions in relation to their impacts on selected outcome indicators and suggested to policy makers the most cost-effective ways of allocating scarce public resources for maximum impact.

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2024

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Aragie, Emerta A.

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Aragie, Emerta A. 2024. Prioritizing agri-food system investments under climatic and world price risks. ESSP Working Paper 162. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/168419

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Ethiopia

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Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Eastern Africa; Agrifood Systems; Investment; Climate Change; Prices; Globalization

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English

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Open AccessCC-BY-4.0

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NEXUS Gains

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Working Paper

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The economywide recovery measures in Rwanda during the COVID-19 pandemic: How useful a lesson?

2024Aragie, Emerta A.; Diao, Xinshen; Spielman, David J.; Thurlow, James
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The economywide recovery measures in Rwanda during the COVID-19 pandemic: How useful a lesson?

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2024

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Aragie, Emerta A.; Diao, Xinshen; Spielman, David J.; Thurlow, James

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Aragie, Emerta A.; Diao, Xinshen; Spielman, David J.; and Thurlow, James. 2024. The economywide recovery measures in Rwanda during the COVID-19 pandemic: How useful a lesson? Journal of Policy Modeling 46(6): 1103-1124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2024.07.004

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Rwanda

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Africa; Eastern Africa; Covid-19; Government; Households; Public Health

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English

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Limited Access

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpolmod.2024.07.004 Source record

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Assessing investment priorities for inclusive agricultural transformation in Tanzania

2024Aragie, Emerta A.; Benfica, Rui; Pauw, Karl; Randriamamonjy, Josée; Thurlow, James
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Assessing investment priorities for inclusive agricultural transformation in Tanzania

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2024

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Aragie, Emerta A.; Benfica, Rui; Pauw, Karl; Randriamamonjy, Josée; Thurlow, James

Citation

Aragie, Emerta A.; Benfica, Rui; Pauw, Karl; Randriamamonjy, Josée; and Thurlow, James. 2024. Assessing investment priorities for inclusive agricultural transformation in Tanzania. Development Policy Review 42(6): e12812. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12812

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Tanzania; Africa; Eastern Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Agriculture; Policies; Rural Development; Budgets; Computable General Equilibrium Models; Public Investment; Resource Allocation

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English

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Limited Access

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https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12812 Source record

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National Policies and Strategies

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Events

How do we prioritize agrifood system policies and investments? Insights from the RIAPA modeling system
IFPRI Program/Country Event

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June 12, 2024, 10:00 – 11:00 am

How do we prioritize agrifood system policies and investments? Insights from the RIAPA modeling system

Virtual Event: June 12, 2024 at 10:00am-11:00am EDT. In this webinar, we will demonstrate how RIAPA has been used to identify priority agricultural value chains that most effectively contribute to development outcomes.

Improving evidence for better policy making in Ethiopia's livestock sector
IFPRI Program/Country Event

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June 24, 2020, 3:00 – 5:30 pm

Improving evidence for better policy making in Ethiopia’s livestock sector

In collaboration with the Livestock Systems Innovation Lab (LSIL), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has been doing collaborative work over the last 3 years with the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) and Policy Studies Institute (PSI) to study the livestock sector in Ethiopia. Analysis has been done on the consumption and markets […]

6th African Conference of Agricultural Economists
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September 23 to 26, 2019

6th African Conference of Agricultural Economists

IFPRI is participating in the the 6th African Conference of Agricultural Economists 2019 hosted by the African Association of Agricultural Economists​. The conference will explore the recent developments in agricultural systems across Africa. Key drivers of change include population growth, rapid urbanization, productivity enhancing innovation, climate change, the rise of agri-preneurship, land reform, as well as […]

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