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Searching with a thematic focus on Food security in Ethiopia

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  Does food aid really have disincentive effects?: new evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

  Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2005

  This paper relies heavily on statistical analysis to refute the commonly-held view that food aid leads to dependency and thus acts as a disincentive to food production.
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  Impact of sustainable livelihoods approaches on poverty reduction

  Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Document Repository, 2005

  This paper identifies specific examples where applications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) had succeeded in reducing rural poverty.The study focused on whether the 12 country cases studies (in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Honduras, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Yemen, and Zambia) achieved positive changes in indicators of poverty reduction such as increa
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  Churning on the margins: how the poor respond to drought in south Wollo, Ethiopia

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper examines the degree to which the drought of 1999-2000 affected poverty trends in rural Ethiopia, and looks at how strategies in the coping and/or recovery period can assist drought-affected households.
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  Pastoralism on the margin

  Minority Rights Group International, 2004

  This report focuses on the sustainability of pastoralism in the lowlands of the Great Rift of East Africa and the Horn, arguing that pastoralism as a mode of production and a way of life has entered a phase of decline, often accompanied by conflict, drought, famine and flooding.The report details the historic evolution and chief characteristics of pastoralism, discussing the eras of colonialism
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  Gender and intrahousehold food allocation in southern Ethiopia

  Department of Agricultural Economics and Management, Hebrew University, Israel, 2004

  This paper examines the patterns of food allocation within Ethiopian households, with a particular focus on gender differences and the sources of these differences.
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  Reasons for food insecurity of farm households in South Wollo, Ethiopia: explanations at grassroots

  BASIS Collaborative Research Support Program, 2004

  This paper takes a grassroots approach to understand the causes of the variation in food security status among rural farm households Ethiopia.The research is carried out by the Broadening Access and Strengthening Input Market Systems (BASIS) project in Ethiopia which conducted a panel of household surveys since June 2000 in four study districts in South Wollo and Oromia zones of Amhara region.
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  Hunger, poverty and "famine" in Ethiopia: some evidence from twenty rural sites in Amhara, Tigray, Oromiya and SNNP regions

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2003

  This working paper presents some empirical findings related to hunger, poverty and famine based on data collected in twenty rural sites in the Amhara, Tigray, Oromiya and SNNP Regions of Ethiopia between July and September 2003.
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  Coping with hunger and poverty in Ethiopia

  ESRC Research Group on Wellbeing in Developing Countries . University of Bath, 2004

  This paper is an examination of how people in Ethiopia are faring, twenty years after a major famine. The paper is comprised of interviews with individuals in different communities, interwoven with the authors’ conclusions and narrative.
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  Non-farm income, household welfare, and sustainable land management in a less-favoured area in the Ethiopian highlands

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004

  This study looks at the impact of improved access to non-farm income on household welfare, agricultural production, conservation investments and land degradation in form of soil erosion.The results indicate that access to low-wage off-farm income is restricted by lack of employment opportunities since households otherwise would have engaged in more off-farm wage employment than observed.Main
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  Food-for-work for poverty reduction and the promotion of sustainable land use: can it work?

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2004

  This paper assesses the potential of Food-For-Work (FFW) programs to reduce poverty and promote sustainable land use in the longer run. The study uses empirical evidence and an applied bio-economic farm household model in northern Ethiopia.The paper concludes that FFW projects have the potential of contributing to long term development in economies characterised by imperfect markets.

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