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  How does Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net program affect livestock accumulation and children’s education?

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2014

  The report uses panel data from Northern Ethiopia to investigate the welfare impact of Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program. We assess whether the program raised livestock asset levels and children’s education among participant households.
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  Land valuation and perceptions of land sales prohibition in Ethiopia

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2014

  This study investigates attitudes towards legalizing land sales and Willingness to Accept (WTA) sales prices and compensation prices for land among smallholder households in four different areas in the Oromia and SNNP Regions in the southern highlands of Ethiopia.
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  Knowledge networks on the use of biodiversity for sustainable livestock production in Latin America: A model platform for capacity building

  Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, 2014

  Knowledge networks are self-organized struct ures where knowledge generation and exchange take place, thereby providing a basis which capacity building programs can build on by facilitating activities that promote knowledge exchange and mutual learning. The suitability of this kind of network relies on a series of characteristics.
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  Promoting conservation in India by greening coffee

  Norwegian Institute for International Affairs, 2014

  The Indian coffee sector is at an important transition point, increasingly stuck in the middle between quality and value segments of the market. A potential niche for India is in the development of eco-friendly (green) coffees, leveraging the natural environment and biodiversity present in many regions.
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  Drugs, (dis)order and agrarian change: the political economy of drugs and its relevance to international drug policy

  Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2014

  n May 2014 the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) hosted a workshop, co-funded by NOREF and Christian Aid, designed to facilitate dialogue between scholars working on the political economy of drugs, conflict and development in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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  Ethiopia: Overview of corruption in land administration

  U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2014

  Improving land governance is key in assuring that land resources can be enjoyed by all parts of the population. Donors can play an important role in combatting corruption in land administration and building a well-functioning land administration by both supporting domestic government efforts as well as engaging in international and multi-country initiatives.
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  No longer tracking greenery in high altitudes: pastoral practices of Rupshu nomads and their implications for biodiversity conservation

  Pastoralism, 2013

  Nomadic pastoralism has thrived in Asia’s rangelands for several millennia by tracking seasonal changes in forage productivity and coping with a harsh climate. This pastoralist lifestyle, however, has come under intense transformations in recent decades due to socio-political and land use changes.
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  Food securities and social conflict

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2014

  Following rising food prices violent ‘food riots’ took place in about 40 countries around the globe in 2007-2008. And at the end of 2010 and the start of 2011, as protests erupted first in Tunisia and then in Algeria, Bahrain, Yemen, Jordan and Egypt, the price of food was widely seen as a significant factor underlying unrest and the train of events of the Arab Spring.
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  Agricultural interventions and investment options for climate change in drought and saline - flood prone regions of Bangladesh

  Bioforsk / Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, 2014

  Rice is the staple food in Bangladesh and crucial for the food security in the country. The alluvial soil deposits, through an extensive river network across Bangladesh, have contributed to a fertile land with high rice productivity potential. However, the frequent occurrence of floods, salinity and drought has repeatedly threatened the food security especially in the rural areas.
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  Water resources, agriculture, and drought. Understanding the context of drought in Marathwada

  Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, 2014

  Policy brief no. 1 from the Indo-Norwegian research collaboration on climate change adaptation: Extreme Risks, Vulnerabilities and Community-Based Adptation in India (EVA): a pilot study.

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