Ethiopia and Food security
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Addis Ababa - Population:
88013491 - Size:
1127127.0 Km2
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- Bioecomonic model for assessing policy options
- S. Holden; B. Shiferaw; J. Pender / International Food Policy Research Institute, 2005
- This research in the highlands of Ethiopia shows how poverty and land degradation can be reduced in a resource-constrained agricultural area. It uses a bioeconomic model to address how alternative policy options can affect poverty and...
- Does food aid stimulate African agriculture?
- A. Abdulai; C.B. Barrett; J. Hoddinott / Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2005
- This paper relies heavily on statistical analysis to refute the commonly-held view that food aid leads to dependency and thus acts as a disincentive to food production. Whilst a sample household level analysis does seem to lend some s...
- Successes of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach for rural poverty reduction
- Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005
- This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty. The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia...
- How have the poor recovered from drought in rural Ethiopia?
- P.D. Little; M.P. Stone; T. Mogues; A.P. Castro; W. Negatu / BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004
- This paper examines the degree to which the drought of 1999-2000 affected poverty trends in rural Ethiopia, and looks at how strategies in the coping and/or recovery period can assist drought-affected households. It finds that when th...
- Ensuring the sustainability of pastoralism in East Africa
- J. Markahis / Minority Rights Group International, 2004
- This report focuses on the sustainability of pastoralism in the lowlands of the Great Rift of East Africa and the Horn, arguing that pastoralism as a mode of production and a way of life has entered a phase of decline, often accompani...
- Pregnant and nursing women at high risk of malnutrition given traditional food allocation patterns in Ethiopia
- A. Kimhi / Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Hebrew University, Israel, 2004
- This paper examines the patterns of food allocation within Ethiopian households, with a particular focus on gender differences and the sources of these differences. The author proposes that different roles assumed by males and females...
- Grassroots explanations of the causes of household food insecurity in Ethiopia
- W. Negatu / BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004
- This paper takes a grassroots approach to understand the causes of the variation in food security status among rural farm households Ethiopia. The research is carried out by the Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market ...
- Field research on twenty sites in Ethiopia reveals significant lapses in the understanding of famine
- A. Pankhurst; P. Bevan / ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2003
- This working paper presents some empirical findings related to hunger, poverty and famine based on data collected in twenty rural sites in the Amhara, Tigray, Oromiya and SNNP Regions of Ethiopia between July and September 2003. The p...
- Ethiopian food security twenty years after famine
- A. Pankhurst; P. Bevan / ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2004
- This paper is an examination of how people in Ethiopia are faring, twenty years after a major famine. The paper is comprised of interviews with individuals in different communities, interwoven with the authors’ conclusions and na...
- Food-for-work programmes to promote sustainable land use
- S. Holden; C.B. Barrett; F. Hagos / Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004
- This paper assesses the potential of Food-For-Work (FFW) programs to reduce poverty and promote sustainable land use in the longer run. The study uses empirical evidence and an applied bio-economic farm household model in northern Eth...
- 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
