Ethiopia is the second largest wheat producer in Africa. Though wheat production has been
increasing steadily in the past decades, the demand for the crop outstripped domestic …

Context Cluster farming is a new approach that began in Ethiopia in 2015 to shift
smallholder farmers' production from subsistence to a commercial system. Improving …

Cluster farming is increasingly recognized as a viable means of improving smallholder
economic integration and commercialization in many developing countries. However, little is …

This paper examines the relationship between smallholder commercialisation and rural
household welfare. Employing a comprehensive three-wave panel dataset of smallholder …

This study focuses on identifying the determinants of cluster farming participation decisions
and the impact of cluster farming on smallholder wheat farmer's productivity in the two …

Background Cluster farming is an agricultural practice that involves organizing and grouping
together farmers within a specific geographic area based on proximity of their farm plots to …

The purpose of this study is to understand the determinants of participation in cluster
beekeeping and its impact on the technical efficiency of honey production in southwestern …

Introduction As one of the agglomeration models targeting cluster-based rural development,
cluster farming has been promoted in Ethiopia and it is already reported to have significant …

Purpose Agriculture in Ethiopia relies heavily on traditional farm power sources and is
designated by the lowest farm machinery access, in contrast to other Sub-Sahara African …

The emergence of agricultural cooperatives is widely viewed as a potential institutional
arrangement that can help achieve rural poverty reduction by improving farmers' welfare in …