Ethiopia’s Agricultural Transformation: Agribusiness’ Contribution to Reducing Youth Unemployment
dc.contributor.author | Tesfamicheal, Wossen | |
dc.contributor.author | Ayele, Seife | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Ethiopia | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-23T13:19:59Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-11-23T13:19:59Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-11-20 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Wossen. T. and Ayele, S. (2018) 'Ethiopia’s Agricultural Transformation: Agribusiness’ Contribution to Reducing Youth Unemployment' in Ayele, S., Glover, D. and Oosterom. M. (eds) Youth Employment and the Private Sector in Africa. IDS Bulletin 49.5, Brighton: IDS | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/14139 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article explores empirical evidence on the relationship between agricultural transformation, ownership structure of agribusinesses, and employment creation in Ethiopia. It draws on secondary data to present evidence of Ethiopia’s agricultural transformation, employment trends, and the agribusiness sector’s contribution to employment generation. The country’s agricultural sector has shown signs of transformation in the form of both labour movement to the more productive manufacturing and services sectors, and productivity growth through the commercialisation and creation of agribusinesses. The findings suggest that the growing number of agribusinesses are generating more jobs for youth but also reveal a number of challenges to overcome, such as skills gaps, low pay in the private sector, and inflexible land ownership and transfer processes. The study suggests targeted policy reforms to incentivise efficient and competitive private agribusinesses, and to address agribusiness-related constraints, skills and wage gaps, as well as land ownership and rental market constraints. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Mastercard Foundation | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Bulletin;49.5 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited, any modifications or adaptations are indicated, and the work is not used for commercial purposes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Work and Labour | en |
dc.title | Ethiopia’s Agricultural Transformation: Agribusiness’ Contribution to Reducing Youth Unemployment | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Business, Markets and the State | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/1968-2018.171 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-11-20 | |
rioxxterms.funder | Default funder | en |
rioxxterms.identifier.project | Default project | en |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
rioxxterms.funder.project | 9ce4e4dc-26e9-4d78-96e9-15e4dcac0642 | en |
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