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dc.contributor.authorKassie, M.
dc.contributor.authorAbro, Z.
dc.contributor.authorAssfaw Wossen, T.
dc.contributor.authorLedermann, S.
dc.contributor.authorDiiro, G.
dc.contributor.authorBallo, S.
dc.contributor.authorBelayhun, L.
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-24T14:44:32Z
dc.date.available2022-08-24T14:44:32Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.citationKassie, M., Abro, Z., Wossen, T., Ledermann, S., Diiro, G., Ballo, S. & Belayhun, L. (2020). Integrated health interventions for improved livelihoods: a case study in Ethiopia. Sustainability, 12(6): 2284. 1-21.
dc.identifier.issn2071-1050
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/7689
dc.description.abstractSmallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face multifaceted and co-existing risks, such as human and animal diseases and pests. Even though smallholder farmers often experience these challenges simultaneously, interventions to address these challenges are often implemented in a piecemeal fashion. However, managing agricultural production constraints without alleviating human and livestock health burdens might not generate significant and sustained benefits to achieve the desired development outcome (e.g., reducing hunger, malnutrition, and poverty). As such, building farmers’ resilience and adaptive capacity to co-existing production constraints and health burdens may require an integrated and holistic approach. Understanding the potential benefits of an integrated approach would provide critical information, for example, for revisiting the extension systems and for designing pro-poor holistically integrated interventions to tackle interrelated challenges facing smallholder farmers. In this paper, we examined the economic benefits of integrated human–plant–animal health interventions aimed at controlling malaria, stemborer infestations of crops, and trypanosomiasis, along with beekeeping as a livelihood diversification option in rural Ethiopia. We developed a whole-farm multiperiod mathematical linear programming model to examine the economic consequences of the interventions. Our results suggest that relaxing livelihoods and the human–plant–animal health constraints that farmers face has the potential to at least double income. The results further show that exploiting the potential synergies among interventions can generate higher economic benefits. The annual income from the combined interventions is 35% higher than the sum of the income gains from each intervention alone. Our results support an integrated approach to achieve holistic outcomes in areas where these development constraints co-exist.
dc.description.sponsorshipBiovision Foundation
dc.description.sponsorshipDepartment for International Development, United Kingdom
dc.description.sponsorshipSwedish International Development Cooperation Agency
dc.description.sponsorshipSwiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
dc.description.sponsorshipGerman Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
dc.description.sponsorshipKenyan Government
dc.description.sponsorshipEthiopian Government
dc.format.extent1-21
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectAgricultural Production
dc.subjectRisk
dc.subjectEconomic Value
dc.subjectSmallholders
dc.subjectFarmers
dc.subjectLivelihoods
dc.subjectEthiopia
dc.titleIntegrated health interventions for improved livelihoods: a case study in Ethiopia
dc.typeJournal Article
cg.contributor.crpRoots, Tubers and Bananas
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions and Markets
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationGeorge Washington University
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEast Africa
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.hubEastern Africa Hub
cg.researchthemeSocial Science and Agribusiness
cg.identifier.bibtexciteidKASSIE:2020a
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research institute
cg.iitasubjectAgribusiness
cg.iitasubjectLivelihoods
cg.iitasubjectSmallholder Farmers
cg.iitasubjectValue Chains
cg.journalSustainability
cg.notesPublished online: 14 Mar 2020
cg.accessibilitystatusOpen Access
cg.reviewstatusPeer Review
cg.usagerightslicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 0.0)
cg.targetaudienceScientists
cg.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12062284
cg.iitaauthor.identifierMenale Kassie: 0000-0002-2380-754X
cg.iitaauthor.identifierZewdu Ayalew Abro: 0000-0002-4116-7945
cg.iitaauthor.identifierTesfamicheal Wossen Assfaw: 0000-0002-3672-2676
cg.futureupdate.requiredNo
cg.identifier.issue6
cg.identifier.volume12


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