Ethiopia and Food security
- Capital:
Addis Ababa - Population:
88013491 - Size:
1127127.0 Km2
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- 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...
- What are the long term effects of emergency seed aid?: evidence from Ethiopia
- L. Sperling; A. Deressa; S. Assefa / International Development Research Centre, 2007
- Seed aid is a significant area of humanitarian practice, intended to help vulnerable farmers recover from crises. Yet poorly-conducted aid can increase farmers’ vulnerability. This comprehensive report assesses the effects ...
- How does local procurement of food aid affect local markets?
- J. Coulter / Reliefweb, 2007
- European Commission policy endorses local and regional procurement of food aid commodities (LRP), a practice that is believed to assist in the development of local agriculture and livelihoods in supplying countries. This paper argues ...
- Moving from food aid to cash transfers in Ethiopia
- Emebet Kebede / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- The debate on whether cash transfers are more effective than food aid continues. Governments and organisations seeking to transfer cash to poor households should be aware of the challenges in targeting and the availability and price o...
- The aftermath of the 2002 drought in Ethiopia
- D.O. Gilligan; J. Hoddinott / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006
- This paper explores the presence of persistent impacts of two food aid programmes: the Employment Generation Schemes (EGS) and free food distribution (FFD), which were implemented following the 2002 drought in Ethiopia. It looks speci...
- GTZ food security lessons learned
- M. Metz / Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH, 2006
- This summary report highlights the major findings of the Lessons Learned Study of the food security policy advisory projects that were conducted in Cambodia , Ethiopia, and Mozambique at the end of 2005, before the respective projects...
- Food aid or cash aid? Comparing effects on the Ethiopian economy
- Ayele Gelan / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007
- Policymakers, donors and non-governmental organisations have in recent years debated whether it is more effective to provide aid to poor households in the form of food or cash. Most studies have focused on specific aspects of the effe...
- Providing pastoral communities with information can empower them to limit the impacts of natural disasters
- G. Kariuki / Arid Lands Information Network, 2006
- Particularly in vulnerable pastoral regions, early warning systems can empower individuals and communities to act to prevent loss of life and reduce the economic and material impact of disasters. In this two-page article from Baobab, ...
- Assessing emergency food needs in Ethiopia
- Nicholas Haan; Nisar Majid; James Darcy / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- In Ethiopia, there are no standard procedures to assess emergency situations. As a result, the information these assessments produce varies in quality and credibility. This can damage responses to food insecurity and humanitarian cris...
- id21 viewpoint - a response to id21 insights #61
- Ian Scoones / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006
- Food, agriculture and the challenge of beating hunger in Africa lead the international development agenda today. But these are not new issues: Africa has been falling behind on all key development indicators for decades. It is clear t...
- Institute of Development Research, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia (IDR)
- Ethiopian socio-economic research institute
- African Centre for for Gender and Development, UNECA (ACGD)
- ACW is the regional Women in Development (WID) structure in the United Nations system in Africa
- United Nations Emergencies Unit for Ethiopia (UN-EUE)
- Focuses on pastoralism and conflict in Ethiopia
