Ethiopia and Livelihoods
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Addis Ababa - Population:
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1127127.0 Km2
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- Sustainable livelihoods approaches in guiding effective policies to combat poverty
- A. Shankland / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000
- How can the Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) approach bridge the gap between macro-level policy analysis and micro-level livelihoods? While top-down policy analysis often ignores the realities of how policies affect people, bottom-up appr...
- The price of hunger: the relationship between poverty and food intake
- David Mepham / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- The first Millennium Development Goal - to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger – reflects the fact that undernutrition is both a symptom and a cause of poverty. The first measure of success is well known: to halve the number of ...
- Drought response in Ethiopia: towards more timely, appropriate interventions
- S. Pantuliano; M. Wekesa / Overseas Development Institute, 2008
- This study provides an overview of the timing, appropriateness and efficacy of interventions in response to the drought that affected the pastoral lowlands of Ethiopia in 2005/2006. It identifies mechanisms to initiate more timely and...
- Surviving the drought: the need for a livelihoods-based response in pastoralist areas
- Feinstein International Center, USA, 2007
- This Pastoralist Livelihoods Initiative policy brief argues that a livelihoods-based drought response in pastoralist areas could aim to protect key livestock assets and support rapid rebuilding of herds after drought. The b...
- Can payment for work schemes replace food aid in Ethiopia?
- Danya Pedra / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Chronic food insecurity presents a huge challenge to achieving sustainable development. Food aid is often used to provide assistance to the poorest people. This can result in dependency on food aid, however, and increase the numbers o...
- Safety nets: reducing risk and encouraging development
- Lynn Brown; Ugo Gentilini / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Providing ‘safety nets’ during food shortages involves distributing food or cash. This is a common short-term relief strategy to food shortages. Many economists claim that these discourage economic development, but safety ne...
- How can chronically food insecure households become more resilient?: lessons from Ethiopia
- CHF, 2007
- This report is the result of a research effort managed and coordinated by CHF on behalf of the 15-member Canadian NGO Network in Ethiopia (CANGO) to assess the factors that contribute to the vulnerability and resilience of communities...
- Population growth and people’s livelihood strategies in Ethiopia
- B. Doilicho / Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2007
- This paper describes the patterns of settlement, the types of houses and construction materials, and problems relating to construction and fuel materials in Silte and Dalocha Woredas of Silte Zone, Ethiopia. It examines some character...
- Livelihood strategies of women in Ethiopia
- S. Worku / Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2007
- What are the livelihood strategies of rural women in Wolonkomi locality, Ethiopia, in the context of rapid population growth? What impact do these strategies have? The author examines this question with emphasis on income diversificat...
- The different livelihood strategies of urban and rural people in Ethiopia
- M. Seraje / Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2007
- Rural-urban linkages are receiving increased attention in the regional and local economic development discourse because the livelihood strategies of the rural and urban people in Sub-Saharan Africa have become increasingly multidimens...
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