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Orphan crops and the vulnerability of rural livelihoods : the case of enset in Ethiopia
Feyisa, Ashenafi Duguma; Mey, Yann de; Maertens, Miet - In: Q open : a journal of agricultural, climate, … 2 (2022) 2, pp. 1-29
conditions, high nutritional value, and long storability, in the livelihood of rural households in Ethiopia. With its specific … use data from a comprehensive household survey, covering 684 rural households in Southern Ethiopia. We rely on the …
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Ethiopia - Land, Climate, Energy, Agriculture and Development : A Study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for Regional Development, Jobs, and Food Security
Admassie, Assefa; Abebaw, Degnet - 2021
Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa with a population of more than 110 million. With … as the impact of climate change and the policy responses of the Government of Ethiopia. The review clearly shows that … Ethiopia is still a poor country with more than one fifth of the population living below the national poverty line. Food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241030
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Ethiopia - land, energy, climate change, and agricultural development : a study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
Assefa Admassie; Abebaw, Degnet - 2021
Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa with a population of more than 110 million. With … as the impact of climate change and the policy responses of the Government of Ethiopia. The review clearly shows that … Ethiopia is still a poor country with more than one fifth of the population living below the national poverty line. Food …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421105
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Reclaiming the Right to Food as a Normative Response to the Global Food Crisis
Narula, Smita - 2015
The number of hungry in the world has crossed the one billion mark, a dubious milestone that has been attributed in large part to consecutive food and economic crises. Over ninety-eight percent of these individuals live in the developing world. Ironically, a great majority are involved in food...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186570
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Institutionalizing Inequality : The WTO Agreement on Agriculture, Food Security, and Developing Countries
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2009
The article examines the food security implications of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. It places the Agreement in historical context, examines its key provisions, and argues that the Agreement systematically favors industrialized country agricultural producers at the expense of farmers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050425
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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011
This article examines the historic and contemporary roots of chronic malnutrition and environmental degradation in the developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period until the present, and analyzes the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050535
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Does market access improve dietary diversity and food security? : evidence from Southwestern Ethiopian smallholder coffee producers
Usman, Muhammed Abdella; Callo-Concha, Daniel - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 9 (2021), pp. 1-21
Market access influences the dietary diversity and food security for smallholder households in many ways. In Ethiopia … households in the Yayu area of southwestern Ethiopia in early 2018. Multivariate regression analysis showed that households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604315
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COVID-19 and Food Security in Ethiopia : Do Social Protection Programs Protect?
Abay, Kibrom; Tesfay, Guush Berhane; Hoddinott, John; … - 2021
We assess the impact of Ethiopia’s flagship social protection program, the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216175
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Climate Resilience Pathways of Rural Households. Evidence from Ethiopia
Asfaw, Solomon; Maggio, Giuseppe; Palma, Alessandro - 2019
This paper explores the resilience capacity of rural Ethiopian households after the drought shock occurred in 2011. The work develops an original empirical framework able to capture the policy and socio-economic determinants of households’ resilience capacity by making parametric statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014110654
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Chapter 69 Population Growth and Trends in Food Production and Consumption in the CWANA Region
Shideed, Kamil H.; Shomo, Farouk; Aw-Hassan, Aden - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3531-3570). 2010
Many of the financial and social challenges that face Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) can be addressed through more efficient and sustainable use of arable land and water resources. In recent years improvements in land and water use have come from an agricultural sector that is...
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