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  The future research agenda for ICTs, climate change and development

  Centre for Development Informatics, 2011

  A more holistic and flexible development approach is required to support the agency of people adapting to climate change. Since climate change adds another layer of complexity to development challenges, interventions must, at all stages, consider the ways in which people might engage with them in a range of possible future climate scenarios.
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  Food price hikes, food security, and gender equality: assessing the roles and vulnerability of women in households of Bangladesh and Ethiopia

  Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, 2010

  This article, based on research into the effects of the sudden rise in food prices from 2007 – 2008, shows how women responded to food insecurity in farming households in areas of Bangladesh and Ethiopia. In 2008 these two countries were listed by the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) as two of the 37 considered in crisis owing to food price hikes.
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  Achieving food security: id21 insights, issue 61

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Halving hunger and extreme poverty by 2015 is the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG). However, persistent hunger is still prevalent worldwide, slowing progress towards all other MDGs, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
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  Understanding famine in Ethiopia: poverty, politics and human rights

  Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway, 2008

  This paper explores the extent to which human rights, democracy, and political contracts can be useful to provide the major explanations of – and prevention approaches to – famine in Ethiopia. The paper states that famine cannot be explained exclusively in terms of resource shortage, pointing that politics is no less important.
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  The levels, determinants and coping mechanisms of food insecure households in southern Ethiopia: case study of Sidama, Wolaita and Guraghe zones

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2009

  This study aims to identify the basic demographic, economic and social determinants of household food security and their levels among some selected rural communities of Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) in Ethiopia.  These included the Sidama, Wolaita and Guraghe zones. 
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  Climate change and the threat to African food security

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009

  Sub-Saharan Africa is currently the most food-insecure region in the world. Climate change could aggravate the situation further unless adequate measures are put in place.
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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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  Why is land productivity lower on land rented out by female landlords?: theory, and evidence from Ethiopia

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2008

  There is a common view and belief that women are the ones that do the farming in Africa while the men do not work much. This paper seeks to find explanations to why land productivity is lower on land rented out by female landlord households than on land rented out by male landlord households in the Ethiopian highlands.
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  Fighting cycles of quiet starvation

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009

  Seasonality is the most neglected dimension of rural deprivation. Seasonal hunger amongst poor rural people is a permanent global crisis, affecting seven out of every ten hungry people in the world. How can policymakers and development organisations fight seasonal hunger?
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  The impact of climate change and adaptation on food production in low-income countries: evidence from the Nile Basin, Ethiopia

  2008

  This paper presents an empirical analysis of the impact of climate change on food production in a typical low-income developing country. It provides an estimation of the determinants of adaptation to climate change and the possible implications that these strategies may have on farm productivity.

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