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  Does Ethiopia’s productive safety net program improve child nutrition ?

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2014

  The paper studies the link between Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and short-run nutrition outcomes among children age 5 years and younger. It uses 2006 and 2010 survey data from Northern Ethiopia to estimate parameters of an exogenous switching regression.
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  Situational analysis of indigenous social institutions and their role in rural livelihoods: the case of selected food insecure lowland areas of Southern Ethiopia

  2013

  Close examination and analysis of these social institutions is very important not only from the household economic point of view but also because of its significant role in other livelihood aspects. The data for this study was collected from 453 household heads that were selected through a random sampling technique.
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  Why women farmers are left out of the programs. Lessons learned. Evaluation of Norway's bilateral agricultural support to food security

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2013

  Norway’s Bilateral Agricultural Support to Food Security 2005-2011 was reviewed in 2012-2013. This Lessons Learned document was prepared as a continuation of that review. Its purpose is to identify lessons learned regarding women’s rights and gender1 issues in the projects/programmes2 reviewed, in order to achieve more gender equality in Norwegian-funded agricultural programmes.
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  Variation in malaria transmission in Southern Ethiopia: the impact of prvention strategies and a need for targeted intervention

  Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, 2013

  In Ethiopia, 60 per cent of the population is at risk of malaria. The transmission of the disease is unstable and the possibility of epidemics demand continuous vigilance and preparedness of the health system. The complexity of the transmission of the disease has become an impediment to retain the effectiveness of prevention and control strategies.
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  People in crises: tackling the root causes of famine in the Horn of Africa

  Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, 2012

  In mid-2011 the world became witness to a widespread food crisis in the Horn of Africa, which has escalated into acute shortages of food notably in the regions of southern Somalia, northern Kenya, southeastern Ethiopia and Djibouti. The U.N.
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  Generosity and social distance in dictator game field experiments with and without a face

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2013

  Field experiments combining dictator games with stated preference questions are used to elicit within subject and between subject sharing behavior with known family members and anonymous villager. A simple theoretical model incorporating social preferences, social distance and interdependent preferences is developed.
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  Links between Tenure Security and Food Security: Evidence from Ethiopia

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012

  The study uses five rounds of household panel data from Tigray, Ethiopia, collected 1998–2010 to assess the impacts of a land registration and certification program that aimed to strengthen tenure security and how it has contributed to increased food availability and thus food security in this food-deficit region.
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  Land tenure in Tigray: How large is the gender bias?

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2013

  This study finds that female-headed households have 23% smaller owned landholdings and 54% smaller operational landholdings. Differences in characteristics such as age, labor, oxen and previous divorce explain less than half the differences in landholding sizes, while the remaining can be attributed to differences in returns to these characteristics.
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  Can Provision of Household Agricultural Extension Packages Reduce Rural Food Insecurity and Poverty in Tigray?

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2012

  The overall working hypothesis of the paper is that the programme has positive contribution in improving household welfare and reduces the incidence, depth and severity of poverty in study areas. The analysis is based on primary household-level data collected from 959 randomly selected households in three drought prone woredas of Northern Ethiopia in 2009.
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  The Access and Benefit Sharing Agreement on Teff Genetic Resources: Facts and Lessons

  Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2012

  This report tells the story of an agreement on access to teff genetic resources in Ethiopia, and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits derived from their use, that was hailed as one of the most advanced of its time. This agreement between the Ethiopian Institute of Biodiversity Conservation and the Dutch company Health and Performance Food International was entered into in 2005.

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