managed by the Government of Kenya and a number of international organizations including the World Food Program (WFP), the …

-ante actions and ex-post responses using panel data from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The importance of ex-ante actions … interesting variations across countries. In Ethiopia, public assistance plays a more important role than ex-ante actions to … mitigate the impact of shocks on child schooling. In contrast, households in Malawi rely more on private ex-ante actions than …

, Ethiopia, and Malawi. The empirical results show that the accumulation of biological human capital prior to disasters helps … post-disaster recovery process. In Ethiopia and Malawi, where droughts are rather frequent, exposure to highly frequent …

explicit knowledge is called externalization. Farmers possess both kinds of knowledge. Scientists often pre-determine ignorance … largely because they have little interest in externalizing farmers' tacit knowledge. A new form of knowledge is generated by …

farmers' commitment to rehabilitation of field drainage systems, and their willingness to form farmer-managed Land and Water …