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  What drives the global land rush?

  Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011

  Recent increases in the level of agricultural commodity prices and the resulting demand for land has been accompanied by a rising interest in acquiring agricultural land by investors. This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture.
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  Prospect of India-Ethiopia investment and trade cooperation

  Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2015

  In recent years, with the opening up of the Ethiopian and India economy, investment and trade ties between the two countries have grown significantly. While Ethiopia’s major exports are food and live animals, coffee and tea, crude materials and vegetable and fruits, India’s major import items are manufactured products and fuels.
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  Exploring gender perceptions of resource ownership and their implications for food security among rural livestock owners in Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Nicaragua

  2015

  Productive resources are essential to the livelihoods and food security of the world’s rural poor. Gender-equal ownership of resources is considered key to increasing agricultural productivity, equity, and food security. However, there has not been much research about local understandings of ownership particularly in the Global South.
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  Ethiopian policymaker’s knowledge exchange visit to India: economic empowerment of women through self help groups and women Safety

  Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014

  Self help groups (SHGs) have been instrumental in making women self-reliant and economically empowered. The scheme of micro-financing through SHGs create empowerment promoting conditions for women to move from positions of marginalisation within household decision making process and exclusion within community, to one of greater centrality, inclusion of voice.
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  Dynamics of pharmaceutical quality systems for the export of pharmaceuticals from India to Africa

  Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014

  With its pharmaceutical exports, India has been contributing to public health globally and is often referred to as the ‘pharmaceutical factory’ to the world. For example, India has a dominant global market share of anti-retrovirals (80%) and paediatric ARVs (90%) in the world.
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  Prospects of India-Ethiopia investment and trade cooperation

  Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014

  Both India and Ethiopia have emerged as the two fastest growing developing countries in the world. In recent years, bilateral trade between the two countries increased significantly since the Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement was signed in 2007.
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  Prevalence and correlates of prenatal vitamin A deficiency in rural Sidama, Southern Ethiopia

  Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2013

  Vitamin A is an essential micronutrient required for the normal functioning of the vision system, immunity, epithelial integrity, cellular differentiation, growth and development, and possibly reproduction.
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  Impacts of large-scale investments in agriculture on water resources, ecosystems and livelihoods; and development of policy options for decision makers

  GRID Arendal, 2014

  The goal of this project  is to analyze the nature and extent of impacts of foreign direct investments (FDI) in agriculture in Africa.
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  Tools, fertilizer or cash? Exchange asymmetries in productive assets

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2014

  We used a field experiment to investigate exchange asymmetries in productive assets among poor rural respondents in Ethiopi a. Farmers were randomly allocated two types of productive assets or cash, with a choice to keep the productive asset (cash) or exchange it for cash (productive asset).
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  Farmers’ perception and adaptation to climate change: Heckman’s two stage sample selection model

  Ethiopian Journal of Environmental Studies and Management, 2014

  The study outlined in this article examines farmers’ perception and adaptation to climate change in Guto Gidda and Sasigga districts of Oromia Regional National State in Ethiopia. Farmers’ perception and adaptation strategies to climate change are examined.

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