Yared Deribe Tefera

@eiar.gov.et

Agricultural Economics
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)

Yared Deribe Tefera


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Economics and Econometrics, Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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Scopus Publications

187

Scholar Citations

8

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Scopus Publications

  • What factors are inducing or impeding the adoption of agricultural mechanization? Revisiting farm scale, overhead capital and spatial divergence
    Yared Deribe Tefera, Bisrat G. Awoke, Thomas Daum
    World Development Perspectives, 2025
  • Do collective actions reduce household poverty? Evidence from empirical evaluation of farmers cooperatives in East Shewa, Ethiopia
    Adem Nemo Eresso, Yared Deribe Tefera
    International Journal of Social Economics, 2025
    PurposeCooperatives are used as one of the strategic tools to reach smallholder farmers and reduce household poverty through augmenting access to inputs, technologies, farm productivity and markets. Our study aims to investigate the impacts of the Meki Batu Cooperative Union on reducing household poverty.Design/methodology/approachThis study employed a cross-sectional survey of households in the Dugda district of the East Shewa zone in the Oromia region. A two-stage sampling design was applied, where four rural Kebeles were first randomly picked, followed by stratified random samples of 217 producers comprising 100 members and 117 non-members of cooperatives. The standard probit model was estimated with a set of observable factors. Propensity score matching (PSM), doubly robust inverse probability weighting and treatment effect estimation were performed along with matching techniques.FindingsThe results reveal that education, livestock assets, access to irrigation and extension contact positively determine participation in cooperatives. As the income-based poverty attests, the poverty gap was reduced by 5.9–6.3% and the severity of poverty by 3.7–3.8% due to the cooperative membership.Research limitations/implicationsThe investigation suggests the need for continued and comprehensive social services to address development challenges through the facilitation of producers’ engagement in collective actions and agribusinesses.Originality/valueExisting research evidence is inconclusive with the view of impacts of collective actions on housed welfare in Ethiopia. This study empirically tested the impacts in connection to the production and marketing of high-value crops.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-03-2024-0231
  • Agricultural mechanization in Ethiopia: hiring service transactions, mechanization clusters and land consolidation
    Yared Deribe Tefera, Bisrat Getnet Awoke
    Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, 2025
    PurposeAgriculture 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 (SSA) countries. The purpose of this research is to analyze the heterogeneity of mechanization service transactions and factors determining farmers' cooperation in mechanization clusters and willingness to accept land consolidation.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a cross-sectional survey of producer households in major crop production areas in the Oromia, SNNPR, Amhara and Tigray regions. The sampling design involved three stages: districts were selected using a stratified sampling approach accompanied by simple random samples of kebele units and producer households in the second and final stages, respectively.FindingsThis study’s results show that mechanization service costs, service relationships, clustering and land consolidation exhibit significant heterogeneity across the study areas. Cluster farming was found to be advantageous against diseconomies, rationalized by upgrading the mechanization scale. The probit model parameterization of the probability distributions reveals that household, land, crop, mechanization service, remoteness and location-related factors determine participation in mechanization clusters and willingness to accept land consolidation.Research limitations/implicationsFostering cooperation by focusing on constraints and demand of users is suggested to reduce transaction costs and expand hired mechanization services to unaddressed areas. The findings are relevant to most SSA countries where mechanization development is hampered by land fragmentation.Originality/valueLimited information is available on agricultural mechanization development for smallholder farmers, particularly in Ethiopia, and this study adds empirical evidence about the synergy between cluster farming and mechanization, horizontal coordination and alternative supply models.
  • Value creation and sorghum-based products: what synergetic actions are needed?
    Yared Deribe, Etaferahu Kassa
    Cogent Food and Agriculture, 2020
    Sorghum is a crop of marginal and vulnerable areas that are highly susceptible to the changing climate. A firm-level survey was conducted to address the level of utilization of the sorghum grain, associated value creation and constraints in the agro-processing segment of the agrifood value chain. Results declare that wheat is the most popular and commercial crop that has been widely utilized for the manufacturing of different food products. Maize is the second potential grain while the large share more allocates to the manufacturing of feed and fortified food products. The grains of teff, rice, and sorghum are majorly restricted to traditional food products. To a very limited extent, the agro-processing utilization of sorghum is more attributed to the manufacturing of baby foods and feed products. The physical features and nutritional qualities of sorghum products, experience and awareness gaps, and consumer perceptions remain to be the major barriers that limit the competitiveness of sorghum. The complex nature of the system demands empirical research, agribusinesses, and development actors to join hands embarking on the enhancement of nutrition, capacity development, product innovations, and demand creation. Moreover, boosting up of farm productivity, promoting farmer-industry partnerships and backups to the infant agro-processing sector opens up the opportunities for the disconnected sorghum growers.

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • What factors are inducing or impeding the adoption of agricultural mechanization? Revisiting farm scale, overhead capital and spatial divergence
    YD Tefera, BG Awoke, T Daum
    World Development Perspectives 38, 100671 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 5
  • Do collective actions reduce household poverty? Evidence from empirical evaluation of farmers cooperatives in East Shewa, Ethiopia
    AN Eresso, YD Tefera
    International Journal of Social Economics 52 (5), 715-729 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • Agricultural mechanization in Ethiopia: hiring service transactions, mechanization clusters and land consolidation
    YD Tefera, BG Awoke
    Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies 15 (1), 109-130 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 9
  • Market Integration and Price Transmission Analysis of Common Bean Retail Transactions
    Y Deribe, M Yami, L Zemedu
    Results of Agricultural Economics Research, 2023. Ethiopian Institute of … , 2024
    2024
  • Market Integration and Price Transmission Analysis of Onion and Tomato Retail Transactions
    Y Deribe, M Yami, L Zemedu
    Results of Agricultural Economics Research, 2023. Ethiopian Institute of … , 2024
    2024
  • Assessment and Evaluation of Promoted Small and Medium-Scale Agricultural Mechanization Technologies
    Y Deribe, M Abebe, D Alemu, L Kebede, T Bulo
    Results of Agricultural Engineering Research 2024, 36 , 2024
    2024
  • Assessing the Demand and Current Status of Agricultural Mechanization in Major Coffee-Production Areas of Ethiopia
    T Dessye B., I Mubarek M., T Yared D.
    Pelita Perkebunan (a Coffee and Cocoa Research Journal) 39 (2), 149-172 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 8
  • Technical Efficiency of Maize Production in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia: Panel Data Stochastic Frontier Model
    Y Deribe, A Bekele, AM Oumer, T Fikadu
    Research Report, 1-52 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 5
  • Technical efficiency of irrigated onion and tomato production in the central rift valley of Ethiopia
    T Fikadu
    Ethiopian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 32 (3), 148-162 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 10
  • Benchmarking the Status of Agricultural Mechanization in Ethiopia
    Y Deribe, B Getnet, TG Kang, A Tesfaye
    Research Report, 1-71 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 27
  • Agricultural mechanization in Ethiopia: enabling policy, suppliers and inter-regional heterogeneity
    Y Deribe, B Getnet
    Preprint, 1-17 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 14
  • Determinants of Productivity and Profitability Performance of Smallholder Common Bean Producers in Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia
    A GURMU, Y DERİBE, M KİDANE
    Anadolu İktisat ve İşletme Dergisi (Anatolian Journal of Economics and … , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 2
  • Factors affecting the profitability of smallholder common bean producers in central rift valley of Ethiopia
    A Teshome, S Hailu, E Habte, Y Deribe, B Amsalu
    Ethiopian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 30 (3) , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 7
  • Diagnosis of Farm Power Sources and Mechanization in Major Rice Growing Areas in Ethiopia
    Y Deribe, A Solomon, B Getnet
    2020
    Citations: 1
  • Diagnosis of Farm Power Sources and Mechanization in Major Rice Producing Areas in Ethiopia
    Y Deribe, A Solomon, B Getnet, R Mussema
    Proceeding of the National Conference on Completed Agricultural Economics … , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 1
  • Value creation and sorghum-based products: what synergetic actions are needed?
    Y Deribe, E Kassa
    Cogent Food & Agriculture 6 (1), 1722352 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 41
  • Review of national policies influencing the expansion of agricultural mechanization in Ethiopia
    Y Deribe, M Jaleta
    Working Paper, SIMLESA-international Maize and Wheat Improvement Center … , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 8
  • Review of Major Achievements, Challenges and Prospects of the Agricultural Economics Research
    M Sime, D Mersha, Y Deribe, T Fekadu, E Kassa
    MERCI project TERRA project , 2019
    2019
  • LIVES poultry value chain development interventions: approaches and scalable interventions
    A Ebro, Y Mekasha, S Gizaw, Y Tesfay, Z Mekuriaw, G Dhuguma, ...
    International Livestock Research Institute , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 1
  • LIVES small and large ruminant value chain development: approaches and scalable interventions
    S Gizaw, Y Mekasha, Z Mekuriaw, Y Tesfay, A Ebro, M Teferra, ...
    Promoting productivity and market access technologies and approaches to … , 2019
    2019

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Value creation and sorghum-based products: what synergetic actions are needed?
    Y Deribe, E Kassa
    Cogent Food & Agriculture 6 (1), 1722352 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 41
  • Benchmarking the Status of Agricultural Mechanization in Ethiopia
    Y Deribe, B Getnet, TG Kang, A Tesfaye
    Research Report, 1-71 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 27
  • Effect of irrigation regimes on yield and water use efficiencies of potato
    T Kassu, H Tilahun, D Yared, H Watanabe
    International Journal of Plant Production 11 (3), 389-405 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 21
  • Adoption Analysis of Smallholder Dairy Production Technologies in Oromiya Region, Ethiopia
    BS Tesfaye A., Mamo T., Solomon T., Deribe Y., Getahun W., Alemu T., Hunde D ...
    Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 20
  • Agricultural mechanization in Ethiopia: enabling policy, suppliers and inter-regional heterogeneity
    Y Deribe, B Getnet
    Preprint, 1-17 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 14
  • Technical efficiency of irrigated onion and tomato production in the central rift valley of Ethiopia
    T Fikadu
    Ethiopian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 32 (3), 148-162 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 10
  • Agricultural mechanization in Ethiopia: hiring service transactions, mechanization clusters and land consolidation
    YD Tefera, BG Awoke
    Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies 15 (1), 109-130 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 9
  • Assessing the Demand and Current Status of Agricultural Mechanization in Major Coffee-Production Areas of Ethiopia
    T Dessye B., I Mubarek M., T Yared D.
    Pelita Perkebunan (a Coffee and Cocoa Research Journal) 39 (2), 149-172 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 8
  • Review of national policies influencing the expansion of agricultural mechanization in Ethiopia
    Y Deribe, M Jaleta
    Working Paper, SIMLESA-international Maize and Wheat Improvement Center … , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 8
  • Factors affecting the profitability of smallholder common bean producers in central rift valley of Ethiopia
    A Teshome, S Hailu, E Habte, Y Deribe, B Amsalu
    Ethiopian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 30 (3) , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 7
  • What factors are inducing or impeding the adoption of agricultural mechanization? Revisiting farm scale, overhead capital and spatial divergence
    YD Tefera, BG Awoke, T Daum
    World Development Perspectives 38, 100671 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 5
  • Technical Efficiency of Maize Production in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia: Panel Data Stochastic Frontier Model
    Y Deribe, A Bekele, AM Oumer, T Fikadu
    Research Report, 1-52 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 5
  • Do collective actions reduce household poverty? Evidence from empirical evaluation of farmers cooperatives in East Shewa, Ethiopia
    AN Eresso, YD Tefera
    International Journal of Social Economics 52 (5), 715-729 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • Determinants of Productivity and Profitability Performance of Smallholder Common Bean Producers in Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia
    A GURMU, Y DERİBE, M KİDANE
    Anadolu İktisat ve İşletme Dergisi (Anatolian Journal of Economics and … , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 2
  • Adoption Analysis of Smallholder Dairy Production Technologies in Oromiya Region
    ATTMT Solomon, YDWGT Alemu, DHTFS Bediye
    Ethiopia , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 2
  • Diagnosis of Farm Power Sources and Mechanization in Major Rice Growing Areas in Ethiopia
    Y Deribe, A Solomon, B Getnet
    2020
    Citations: 1
  • Diagnosis of Farm Power Sources and Mechanization in Major Rice Producing Areas in Ethiopia
    Y Deribe, A Solomon, B Getnet, R Mussema
    Proceeding of the National Conference on Completed Agricultural Economics … , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 1
  • LIVES poultry value chain development interventions: approaches and scalable interventions
    A Ebro, Y Mekasha, S Gizaw, Y Tesfay, Z Mekuriaw, G Dhuguma, ...
    International Livestock Research Institute , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 1
  • Simultaneous estimation of multiple dairy technologies uptake
    Y Deribe, A Tesfaye
    MPRA Paper , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 1
  • Effect of Grazing Land Improvement Practices on Herbaceous production, Grazing Capacity and their Economics: Ejere district, Ethiopia
    A Ebro, A Tegegne, F Nemera, A Abera, Y Deribe
    International Journal of Environmental & Agriculture Research 3 (3), 1-6 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 1