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In Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges, Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid, along with other … experts, tell the story of Ethiopia's political, economic, and agricultural transformation. The book is designed to provide … empirical evidence to shed light on the complexities of agricultural and food policy in today's Ethiopia, highlight major …
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This study provides an independent external assessment of the impact of IFPRI’s work in Ethiopia during 1995–2010 …. From 1995 to 2004, nearly all of IFPRI’s Ethiopia work was undertaken by Washington-based research teams working on … specific themes under various “global research programsâ€. In each case, Ethiopia represented one of several case studies in …
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action and its effectiveness in managing woodlots, based on a survey of 100 villages in Tigray, northern Ethiopia. We find …
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Ethiopia holds large potential for dairy development due to its large livestock population, the favorable climate for … Ethiopia can contribute significantly to poverty alleviation and nutrition in the country. Like other sectors of the economy …, the dairy sector in Ethiopia has passed through three phases or turning points, following the economic and political …
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This paper investigates the impacts of population growth, market access, agricultural credit and technical assistance programs, land policies, livelihood strategies and other factors on changes in land management, natural resource conditions and human welfare indicators since 1991 in the...
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"On farm conservation of crop diversity poses obvious policy challenges in terms of the design of appropriate incentive mechanisms and possible trade-offs between conservation and productivity. This paper compares factors explaining the inter-specific diversity (diversity among species) and...
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following the 2002 drought in Ethiopia: a food-for-work program known as the Employment Generation Schemes (EGS) and a program …
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Ethiopia, southern Shewa and Zigwa Boto, a peasant association in the Gurage Zone. The study seeks to answer five questions: (1 … adult undernutrition? (4)Are the current anthropometric cut-off points for adults appropriate for rural Ethiopia? (5)What …
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"This report provides a nuanced perspective on debates about the potential for Africa's smallholder agriculture to stimulate growth and alleviate poverty in an increasingly integrated world. In particular, the paper synthesizes both the traditional theoretical literature on agriculture's role in...
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reduction in Ethiopia, and what kind of agricultural and nonagricultural growth is needed to achieve the millennium development … agriculture has the potential to play a central role in decreasing poverty and increasing growth in Ethiopia, primarily through …
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