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  Banking for the future: Savings, security and seeds. A short study of community seed banks in Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Nepal, Thailand, Zambia and Zimbabwe

  Development Fund, Norway, 2011

  The global seed market has grown considerably the last decades into a multibillion dollar industry, largely due to more farmers purchasing seeds. Despite the growth in the commercial seed sector, the majority of the farmers in the developing world still depend on the harvest season to collect seeds.
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  Household Welfare Effects of Low-cost Land Certification in Ethiopia

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011

  Several studies have shown that the land registration and certification reform in Ethiopia has been implemented at an impressive speed, at a low-cost, and with significant impacts on investment, land productivity, and land rental market activity. This study provides new evidence on land productivity changes for rented land and on the welfare effects of the reform.
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  Does irrigation enhance and food deficits discourage fertilizer adoption in a risky environment? Evidence from Tigray, Ethiopia

  Academic Journals, 2011

  The northern Ethiopian highland in general and the Tigray region in particular is a drought prone area where agricultural production risk is prevalent. Moisture stress is a limiting factor for improved agricultural input mainly fertilizer use.
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  Pastoral pathways: climate change adaptation lessons from Ethiopia

  Noragric, Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2011

  A key aim of the Norwegian Development Fund is to increase the adaptive capacity of marginalised rural poor farmers and pastoralists in the South.  The focus country of this project study, Ethiopia, has a legacy of variable and unpredictable rainfall, causing frequent droughts and heavy floods, undermining local as well as national food and water security.  The analysis in this paper is
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  Banking for the future: savings, security and seeds: a short study of community seed banks in Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Honduras, India, Nepal, Thailand, Zambia and Zimbabwe

  Development Fund, Norway, 2011

  The aim of seed banks is to increase food security and contribute to the continued utilisation of locally important genetic diversity. This paper is sought to document the experiences of community seed banks (CSBs) in a number of developing countries. The paper concludes that: 
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  An epidemiological study of major camel diseases in the Borana lowland, Southern Ethiopia

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2010

  This report describes the seasonal occurrences of major camel diseases and investigates constraints and potentials of camel production in Borana region in Southern Ethiopia. The study indicates that camel husbandry is the main source of income for millions of pastoralists in the region.
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  Impacts of improved seeds and agrochemicals on food security and environment in the Rift Valley of Ethiopia: implications for the application of an African green revolution

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2010

  This study seeks to examine the impacts of improved seeds and agrochemicals on environment and food security in two districts in Ethiopia. The study takes into consideration chemical fertiliser, improved seeds, pesticides and irrigation technologies.
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  The impact of environmental and political influences on pastoral conflicts in Southern Ethiopia

  International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, 2010

  This paper attempts to understand the relationship between environmental and climatic factors on the one hand, and the conflict dynamics in the African Horn on the other hand. The paper recognises aspects like global climatic change and local political dynamics, which intensify the competition for scarce water and pasture, the degradation of natural resources and violent conflict.
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  Review of the Embassy’s development cooperation portfolio: climate change and environment “climate proofing and greening of the portfolio”

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2009

  This review of the Norwegian Embassy’s portfolio in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia identifies possible ways and means of addressing / integrating appropriate climate change and environmental concerns in existing programmes and projects.
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  Exploring new political alternatives for the Oromo in Ethiopia: report from Oromo Workshop and its after-effects

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2009

  This report aims to stimulate a thorough debate in a particular ethnic and social group – the Oromo of Ethiopia. The paper states that the Oromo people are in a crucial and unique situation. Indeed, their plans and actions during the coming years may be key to determining conditions of life in Ethiopia.

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