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People in crises: tackling the root causes of famine in the Horn of Africa
Norwegian Agricultural Economics Research Institute, 2012In 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.DocumentSqueezed: life in a time of food price volatility, year 1 results
Oxfam, 2013Half a decade after the price spike of 2007-2008, food price volatility has become the new norm: people have come to expect food prices to rapidly rise and fall, though nobody knows by how much or when. So what does the accumulation of food price rises mean for well-being and development in developing countries? And what can be done to improve life in a time of food price volatility?DocumentEnhanced Knowledge Management: knowledge centers for extension communication and agriculture development in Ethiopia
IGI Global, 2013There is increasing evidence on the benefits of knowledge management (KM) to enable organisations to be more competitive, achieve higher efficiency and increase output. The Ethiopian government has embarked on a major initiative for use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to improve the efficiency and impact of its sector programmes.DocumentGenerosity and social distance in dictator game field experiments with and without a face
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2013Field 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.DocumentLinks between Tenure Security and Food Security: Evidence from Ethiopia
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2012The 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.DocumentLand tenure in Tigray: How large is the gender bias?
Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2013This 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.DocumentPutting children at the centre of poverty debates
2011This paper discusses the methodology of Young Lives - a 15-year study of childhood poverty in Ethiopia, India, Vietnam and Peru, following the lives of 3,000 children in each country. The Young Lives programme is interested in children’s development within the context of economic constraint and disparities, and cumulative risk.DocumentHarmful traditional practices and child protection: contested understandings and practices of female child marriage and circumcision in Ethiopia
Young Lives, 2013Focusing on Ethiopia, this paper explores local perspectives on female child marriage and circumcision. Both practices are widespread in Ethiopia and reflect deep-rooted patriarchal and gerontocratic values regulating women’s reproduction and transactions between kin groups at marriage.DocumentNew approaches to promoting flexible and forward-looking decision making: insights from complexity science, climate change adaptation and ‘serious gaming’
Overseas Development Institute, 2013Policy-makers are often tasked with making difficult decisions in the face of an uncertain future outlook. Will infrastructural investments still be relevant in 25 years? What new markets are likely to emerge in the medium term? How will a gradual increase in average temperatures over the coming decades affect livelihood security?DocumentThe Importance of ICTs in the Provision of Information for Improving Agricultural Productivity and Rural Incomes in Africa
2012Information and communication technologies (ICTs) developments have taken place in Africa with the significant growth over the past decade.Pages