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  Economic assessment of water storage for adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa

  2011

  The development of water storage schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa is considered a major aid for agricultural regions with scarce water and anticipated climate change impacts. The selection of storage options is often conducted through monetary assessment of direct costs and benefits.
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  Identifying efficient water storage schemes for climate change adaptation in agriculture: evidences from Indris Watershed in Ethiopia.

  2011

  Considerable research has been conducted into the technical adaptation measures that Ethiopian farmers might adopt to mitigate adverse climate change impacts. However, relatively little is known about Ethiopian farmers’ perceptions of using water storage and land allocation to combat climate change.
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  Digging, damming or diverting? Small-scale irrigation in the Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

  International Water Management Institute, 2011

  The diversity of small-scale irrigation on the Fogera plains, in the Ethiopian Blue Nile river basin, includes small dams, hand-dug wells, ponds and river diversion systems. These facilities, however, receive little political attention in negotiations over Nile resources, which focus primarily on large dams.
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  Regional security in the post-cold war Horn of Africa

  Institute for Security Studies, 2011

  Africa still faces numerous security issues that continue to challenge its political viability, stability, prosperity and sustainable peace.
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  The Packard Foundation’s Ethiopia Population Sub-program: an evaluation report for the period 1998-2007

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2009

  The Population Program of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation invests in pioneering organisations and individuals that strive to give women and their families the ability to decide the number of children to have and when to have them, and to receive proper medical attention when they do. 
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  Implementation of the Maputo Plan of Action: opportunities and challenges for CSO action in promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights in Sub-Saharan Africa

  African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya, 2010

  The Maputo Plan of Action (MPoA) for the operationalisation of the Continental Policy Framework for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, which was endorsed by the summit of the African Union Heads of State and Government in January 2007 to serve as a short -term plan of action for the period 2007 to 2010.
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  The importance of local traditional institutions in the management of natural resources in the highlands of Eastern Africa

  World Agroforestry Centre, 2011

  Traditional local institutions were studied in the highlands of Ethiopia and Tanzania to understand their role in natural resource management. Focus group discussions as well as individual interviews were conducted to identify the existing local institutio ns and their roles. Historical trend analyses were done to determine how the importance of local institutions has changed over the years.
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  Assessment of the headwaters of the Blue Nile in Ethiopia

  World Agroforestry Centre, 2012

  The  study  site  of  Fogera  Woreda  is  one  of  106  woredas of  the  Amhara National  Regional  State  and  is  located  in  the  South  Gondar  Zone,  about  65  km  north of the  Regional  capital  Bahir  Dar  town,  on  
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  Chinese economic and trade co-operation zones in Africa: facing the challenges

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2012

  The idea of exporting Chinese special economic zones to Africa was adopted as an official policy within the Forum on China–Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) framework at the third meeting held in Beijing in 2006, when President Hu Jintao formally announced the establishment of three to five Economic and Trade Co-operation Zones (ETCZs) on the continent as one of the targets of FOCAC’s 2007
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  Land Access and youth livelihood opportunities in Southern Ethiopia

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2013

  This study aims to examine current land access and youth livelihood opportunities in Southern Ethiopia. Access to agricultural land is a constitutional right for rural residents of Ethiopia. We used survey data from the relatively land abundant districts of Oromia Region and from the land scarce districts of Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ (SNNP) Region.

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