Increasing productivity through an innovative individual-based agricultural loan
This research summary looks at how access to finance allows smallholder farmers to purchase improved inputs and services, giving them the chance to graduate from subsistence farming and move up the productivity chain. It explores how LIFT aims to accelerate and magnify the investment, productivity and income effects of land certification for rural landholders in selected markets, including access to the financial market.
This summary relates to a full research study published by LIFT.
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EEU 2019 impact survey report
This report assesses the impact of LIFT’s Economic Empowerment Unit (EEU) on smallholder farmers in Ethiopia, focusing on improvements in two sectors: access to finance and the land rental system. Read a summary.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Land administration, Land rental
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2019
LIFT baseline survey report
This report presents findings from a baseline survey conducted in area locations of the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) programme coupled with matched control areas proximate to the LIFT programme area.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Agricultural inputs for sustainability, Ensuring gender and social inclusion, Land administration, Land rental, Land tenure and certification, Protecting land rights
Type of resource: Research study
Year produced: 2016
The impact of the EEU access to finance and land rental interventions on rural Ethiopian households (second round data collection in 2019)
This survey report provides findings of a survey to measure the impacts of LIFT’s rural land rental market and access to finance interventions.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Land rental
Type of resource: Impact study (survey report)
Year produced: 2019
The impact of the EEU access to finance and land rental interventions on rural Ethiopian households (first round data collection in 2017)
This survey report provides findings of a survey to measure the impacts of LIFT’s rural land rental market and access to finance interventions.
Focus area: Results
Programme theme:
Access to finance, Land rental
Type of resource: Impact study (survey report)
Year produced: 2017
Formalising land rental improves productivity and benefits vulnerable farmers
This research summary shows how LIFT helps to increase incomes for poor landholders and tenants by formalising Ethiopia’s land rental market.
Focus area: Research
Programme theme:
Land rental
Type of resource: Research summary
Year produced: 2019
