Food and Beverages

Fekadu Gelaw has his expertise in diverse fields of agricultural economics especially in improving markets for the smallholder farmers. His critical analysis on the interaction of the current institutional arrangement with the overall institutional environments governing the local and export markets provide key policy measures that need to be taken to improve the performance of market. His years of experience in research, evaluation, teaching and development works enabled him analyze markets from broader perspective. The study generates panel data by disaggregating the export and local market time series data into their respective coffee brands and uses fixed effect regression model to analyze it. The model enables to analyze impacts of institutional interventions on the various prices.