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  Banking for the future: savings, security and seeds: a short study of community seed banks in Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Nepal, Thailand, Zambia and Zimbabwe

  Development Fund, Norway, 2011

  The aim of seed banks is to increase food security and contribute to the continued utilisation of locally important genetic diversity. This paper is sought to document the experiences of community seed banks (CSBs) in a number of developing countries. The paper concludes that: 
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  Civil society and the environmental movement in Ethiopia: country analysis

  Development Fund, Norway, 2008

  This report deals with the progress of environmental organisations in Ethiopia, and the difficulties they face. The paper deems that with consistent efforts, systematic change of approaches, strengthened networking and competence development, the contribution of NGOs and CSOs could increase. The main findings of the paper are:
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  Urban energy transition and technology adoption: the case of Tigrai, Northern Ethiopia

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2009

  Urban centers have long been dependent on the rural hinterlands for about 90 per cent of their fuel needs in Ethiopia. This paper investigates urban energy transition and new technology adoption in Ethiopia as a way of reducing the pressure of urban centers on the rural hinterlands.
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  Gender review: mainstreaming gender in the development portfolio of the Norwegian embassy in Ethiopia

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009

  This paper includes a gender review of the Norwegian embassy’s portfolio in Ethiopia on natural resource management and food security. The paper aims at identifying ways and means of addressing and integrating women’s and gender concerns into the current agreements within present framework and budgets.
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  Women in backyards: root crop production and biodiversity management in backyards: a case study in five selected woredas of Tigray regional state, Northern Ethiopia

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2007

  How can women produce and benefit better from their backyards? How to introduce drought resistant and highly nutritional root crops along while maintaining the biodiversity of plants in backyards? This paper aims to contribute to food self-sufficiency and improve the nutritional status of poor women headed households and poor families in Tigray, Ethiopia.
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  Livelihood diversification in Borana pastoral communities of Ethiopia - prospects and challenges

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2007

  This paper analyses the livelihoods of the Borana pastoral communities of Southern Oromiya in Ethiopia. It aims to inform policy makers, donors, and development practitioners about the best strategies for protecting and promoting sustainable livelihoods in the region.
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  Farmers' rights in Ethiopia: a case study

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2006

  Recent years have seen the integration of farmers' rights into the wider issue of plant genetic resources conservation.
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  Of global concern: rural livelihood dynamics and natural resource governance

  Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2006

  The global challenges of hunger, poverty and disease have led to an increasing focus within global initiatives - policies and strategies - on conditions and developments in rural areas in the South. The aim of this paper is to analyse and understand the rural livelihood dynamics and natural resource governance that are unfolding across continents.
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  Awareness promotion and experience sharing on the implementation of the UNCCD-NAP to enhance pastoralist areas development in Ethiopia

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2005

  This paper reports on a workshop held in Ethiopia in 2004, targeting stakeholders involved in implementing Ethiopia’s National Action Plan (NAP) for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
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  Training of trainers in implementation of UNCCD/NAP in Ethiopia

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2004

  This paper summarises the events at a training of trainers that took place in Ethiopia in 2004. The training covered concept and principles of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), communication skills and adult education, and community based project proposal formulation.

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