Small farmer credit in Ethiopia

The first one is entitled "The Credit Programme of the Chilalo Agricultural Development Unit (CADU) in Ethiopia" by Johan Holmberg. CADU has been important in determining the policies for small farmer development in Ethiopia. Subsequent agricultural development projects have in essential respects been modeled after CADU and adopted its package approach to rural development. Most notably, CADU has received replication on a nation-wide level through the minimum package project which aims to promote increased production by providing technical assistance and high-impact inputs such as fertilizer, seed, credit, and marketing facilities to small farmers in selected accessible areas throughout the country. The paper provides a detailed description and evaluation of the CADU credit program. The second report is entitled "The Chilalo Agricultural Unit as a Program Intermediary for Foreign Assistance in Ethiopia" by John M. Cohen. The paper analyzes the success and effectiveness of the CADU project as an intermediary organization for channelling foreign assistance into Ethiopia. The analysis is patterned after a similar type of analysis carried out by AID on a world-wide basis.