How Effective is Ethiopia´s Agricultural Growth Program at Improving Household’s Food and Nutrition Security? Panel Data Evidence

In Ethiopia, the Agricultural Growth Program (AGP) is a multi-faceted program that has been designed towards transforming agriculture through implementing several activities to enhance agricultural productivity and commercialization. The extent to which the program has affected farm households’ food and nutrition security in terms of dietary diversity and diet quality is an interesting policy issue. However, there is little quantitative evidence that assesses the impact of AGP on delivering adequate quantities of nutritionally balanced food. Using three rounds of panel data sets from a sample of households drawn from program and non-program areas, this study evaluates the heterogeneous impact of the AGP on household’s food and nutrition security. The study will use the difference-in-difference (DID) estimation strategy to examine the impact of the AGP. The result from this study is expected provide insights into the way the AGP modify farmers consumption decisions and suggest to policymakers to design future agricultural policies and programs.