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Menale Kassie
Researcher at International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
Publications - 151
Citations - 9175
Menale Kassie is an academic researcher from International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Agriculture & Productivity. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 136 publications receiving 6886 citations. Previous affiliations of Menale Kassie include CGIAR & University of Gothenburg.
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Adoption of interrelated sustainable agricultural practices in smallholder systems: Evidence from rural Tanzania
TL;DR: In this article, the adoption and diffusion of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs), as a way to tackle this challenge, has become an important issue in the development policy agenda in the region.
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Adoption of multiple sustainable agricultural practices in rural Ethiopia
TL;DR: In this paper, the adoption and diffusion of sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) has become an important issue in the development-policy agenda for sub-Saharan Africa, especially as a way to tackle land degradation, low agricultural productivity and poverty.
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Agricultural technology, crop income, and poverty alleviation in Uganda
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the ex post impact of adopting improved groundnut varieties on crop income and poverty in rural Uganda, using propensity score matching methods, and found that adopting groundnut technology significantly increases crop income, and reduces poverty.
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Managing vulnerability to drought and enhancing livelihood resilience in sub-Saharan Africa: Technological, institutional and policy options
Bekele Shiferaw,Kindie Tesfaye,Menale Kassie,Tsedeke Abate,Boddupalli M. Prasanna,Abebe Menkir +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the challenges of drought in Sub-Saharan Africa and review the current drought risk management strategies, especially the promising technological and policy options for managing drought risks to protect livelihoods and reduce vulnerability.
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Adoption of improved wheat varieties and impacts on household food security in Ethiopia
TL;DR: This paper evaluated the impact of adoption of improved wheat varieties on food security using a recent nationally-representative dataset of over 2000 farm households in Ethiopia and found that adoption increases food security and farm households that did adopt would also have benefited significantly had they adopted new varieties.