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  Conflicting demands: providing water for African livestock

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Animal production is one of the largest uses of agricultural water in the world. In many parts of Africa, livestock demands conflict with water for crops. Managing these competing demands is vital to protect this increasingly scarce resource and to minimise environmental damage.
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  Population and major livelihoods in Silte and Dalocha Woredas of Silte Zone

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2007

  This paper describes the patterns of settlement, the types of houses and construction materials, and problems relating to construction and fuel materials in Silte and Dalocha Woredas of Silte Zone, Ethiopia. It examines some characteristics of population and the size of landholding and the situation of agriculture under the prevailing population growth regime.
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  Livelihood strategies of rural women with emphasis on income diversification and demographic adjustment: the case of wolonkomi, Oromia region

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2007

  What are the livelihood strategies of rural women in Wolonkomi locality, Ethiopia, in the context of rapid population growth? What impact do these strategies have? The author examines this question with emphasis on income diversification and demographic adjustment. Findings include:
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  Livelihood strategies and their implications for rural-urban linkages: The case of Wolenkomi town and the surrounding rural kebeles

  Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2007

  Rural-urban linkages are receiving increased attention in the regional and local economic development discourse because the livelihood strategies of the rural and urban people in Sub-Saharan Africa have become increasingly multidimensional and multi-local. What are the ways in which different households rely on varying combinations of activities? What are the factors affecting each strategy?
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  Evaluation of the World Bank’s assistance in responding to the AIDS epidemic: Ethiopia case study

  World Bank, 2005

  This evaluation report from the World Bank’s Operation Evaluation Department (OED) assesses the effectiveness of the World Bank’s country-level HIV/AIDS assistance in Ethiopia.
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  Emergency capacity building pilot projects: promising practices for risk reduction

  Inter-agency Working Group on Emergency Capacity, 2007

  Disaster risk reduction (DRR) has emerged as an important agenda item in the development community. This report identifies models and promising practices for disaster risk reduction based on experiences in the three pilot countries: Ethiopia, Guatemala and Indonesia.
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  Coping with unexpected events in Ethiopia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Groups and networks can help poor people cope with unexpected events such as illness and drought. What role do groups and networks play? And how do burial societies in Ethiopia help poor people cope with the consequences of illness?
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  Stable aid flows that promote farming help reduce poverty in Africa

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007

  Many African countries are highly dependent on aid. Opinions differ markedly on what makes aid effective. The policy environment in aid recipient countries has been the focus of much recent attention. But the stability and composition of aid flows also determine the poverty impact of aid.
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  Review of information available on seed security and seed aid interventions in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Mali and Sudan

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2007

  This report provides an overview of the dominant approaches to seed relief and a review of available literature on the topic. It gives background information on the most common approaches to seed interventions both in normal times and in times of stress.
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  Women in backyards: root crop production and biodiversity management in backyards: a case study in five selected woredas of Tigray regional state, Northern Ethiopia

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2007

  How can women produce and benefit better from their backyards? How to introduce drought resistant and highly nutritional root crops along while maintaining the biodiversity of plants in backyards? This paper aims to contribute to food self-sufficiency and improve the nutritional status of poor women headed households and poor families in Tigray, Ethiopia.

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