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  Incentives for conservation in Tigray, Ethiopia: Findings from a household survey

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2017

  Understanding the problem of land degradation in a given spatial and temporal context, requires looking at the community baseline conditions such as the natural resource base, human resources, existing institutions and infrastructure base, and how these conditions interact with policies and institutions to influence human responses and thereby affect productivity, livelihood security and the na
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  Youth as environmental custodians: a potential tragedy or a sustainable business and livelihood model?

  Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 2016

  Youth unemployment and migration is a growing challenge that needs more political attention in many countries in the world, particularly countries with rapid population growth and economic transformation.
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  Climate adapted vilages. The Development Fund's model for local climate adaptation. Ethiopia.

  Development Fund, Norway, 2015

  The Climate Adapted Villages model aims to make farmers and local communities capable of organizing themselves, identifying climate threats and practicing climate smart agriculture, enabling them to adapt to the current consequences of a changing climate.
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  Afar Resilience Study

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2015

  This paper has been prepared in conjunction with a project for resilience building in Afar National Regional State, Ethiopia under the auspices of the Afar Region Disaster Prevention, Preparedness and Food Security Coordination Office and the Agriculture Knowledge Learning Documentation and Policy Project (AKLDP), Ethiopia which is implemented by the Feinstein International Center, Tufts Univer
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  Looking back, looking ahead : land, agriculture and society in East Africa : a festschrift for Kjell Havnevik

  Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2015

  Professor Kjell Havnevik is retiring from the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) in 2015. For four decades, he has carried out research, taught and supervised students as well as participated in policy debates on different aspects of agriculture, the environment and African and international development policies. His output has been voluminous and is internationally recognised.
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  Impacts of large-scale investments in agriculture on water resources, ecosystems and livelihoods; and development of policy options for decision makers

  GRID Arendal, 2014

  The goal of this project  is to analyze the nature and extent of impacts of foreign direct investments (FDI) in agriculture in Africa.
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  End of project evaluation for ATJK WEHEA II (including last year of ATJK WEHEA I) ADRA Ethiopia

  Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation - NORAD, 2014

  Background:
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  Facts on Ecofarm

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2012

  The Sahel countries face a range of problems from low food insecurity to environmental problems like climate change and soil degradation.
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  Investments in deep water: The pension fund’s holdings in destructive dam projects

  2011

  Through the Government Pension Fund (hereby referred to as The Fund) income from the Norwegian oil activities is invested in foreign security. This report is divided into three parts. The first part deals with how The Fund is managed with a focus on the Central Bank of Norway and the Ethical Council’s work in relation to the ethical guidelines.
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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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