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  Facilitating the implementation and adoption of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Ethiopia: planning workshop, 13-15 October 2003

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2006

  This report documents the proceedings of a workshop entitled "Facilitating the Implementation and Adoption of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Ethiopia" held on 13-15 October 2003, in Ethiopia.A total of 16 papers were presented and discussed in the workshop.
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  Research works in Ethiopia

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Agricultural research in Ethiopia has not achieved a consistent increase in crop productivity over the past 40 years. Ethiopia is still economically underdeveloped and food aid imports are estimated to be more than 0.6 million metric tonnes each year. However, recent developments are more encouraging.
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  Labour-saving technology in Ethiopia is increasing child malnutrition

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Development initiatives designed to improve people's health may sometimes have unintended consequences. Introducing labour-saving technology to a rural area improves mothers’ energy levels. But, without contraception, greater energy reserves also mean higher birth rates. What happens when local resources fail to keep up with the resulting population growth?
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  Why invest in communications for immunisation?: evidence and lessons learned

  Center for Communication Programs, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 2005

  This report makes a case for revitalizing investments in communication for immunization. It considers communication in a broad sense, including advocacy, social and community mobilization, and information, education, and communication (IEC) activities. Without well-planned, adequately funded strategic communication, immunization programs fall short of meeting and sustaining coverage goals.
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  Some progress but Education for All can do better

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Steady progress has been made since 1998, especially towards universal primary education (UPE) and gender parity among the poorest countries, but the pace is insufficient for the six Education for All (EFA) goals to be achieved by 2015. Increased political will and funding is required if countries are to meet the commitments they set at the World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal in 2000.
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  Can land registration serve poor and marginalised groups? summary report

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  This report summarise the research findings of a project to examine the current processes of land rights registration in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Mozambique and assess their outcomes for poor and vulnerable groups.
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  Land Registration in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  This case study assesses the strengths and weaknesses of a simple, inexpensive, village-based land registration system put in place between 1996 and 1998 in Tigray, Ethiopia.The authors found that the system worked well and fairly - in large part due to it’s simplicity and low cost.
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  Land registration and women’s land rights in Amhara Region, Ethiopia

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  Assesses the ongoing land registration process in the Amhara Region and its outcomes for women.
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  Land registration in Amhara Region, Ethiopia

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2005

  Assesses the process to establish a system of land registration and improve land tenure security, and its outcomes for poor and marginalised groups in Amhara, Ethiopia .The registration process is found to be generating conflict at the local level, due to illegal land grabbing, encroachments into common lands and land sales.
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  Kinship, transaction costs and land rental market participation

  Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2005

  With land being the main source of income for many people in the developing world, security of access or ownership rights is imperative to the alleviation of rural povety. Past polices of land redistribution, prohibition of land renting and later legalisation of short-term contracts only, may have prevented or undermined tenancy markets in Ethiopia.

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