Several national economic and sectoral policies and strategies were developed, adopted

and being implemented over the last couple of decades in Ethiopia. These policies and

strategies provide frameworks and guides for economic management in a wide range of

aspects. There are policies that support and lay a good ground for the development and

implementation of RWM interventions. These policies are general like the ones that affect

the agricultural sectoral development and specific ones that are important for water sector,

This report presents 4 scenarios for the future of food security, agriculture, livelihoods and environments in East Africa. These scenarios were developed by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security in collaboration with a wide range of regional stakeholders. The report discusses the theory and development process

There is an urgent need for new approaches and effective models for managing risk and promoting sustainable development in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs), especially in the face of climate change and increasing frequency of drought in many areas. This study assesses the impacts of the Arid Lands Resource Management Project (ALRMPII), a community-based drought management initiative implemented in 28 arid and semi-arid districts in Kenya from 2003 to 2010.

During the past 70 years, concerted efforts by the national veterinary services of affected countries from Senegal to China and Russia to South Africa—aided by international organizations—have brought the once-dreaded rinderpest virus to the point of extinction. In the near future, we can expect to see a global declaration of freedom from rinderpest, the first time this has been achieved for a livestock disease. The devastation wrought by rinderpest stimulated the founding of veterinary schools in many countries, and provided the basis for the development of the veterinary profession.

The global livestock sector is diverse, undergoing rapid change and frequently

misunderstood. Livestock impact issues of major global concern, including food security,

poverty alleviation and environmental and human health. But these impacts differ greatly

across the globe, depending on factors such as the levels of wealth or poverty in a

country/region, the livestock commodity, consumer demands, the policy environment and

the livestock production system. This paper explores global trends in the livestock sector in

Research was done in the upper part of the Genale River basin in the Sidama Zone, Ethiopia. The research focussed on answering the question whether coffee-based agroforestry could ve an impact on the local hydrology. Discharge data, land use data and soil data was collected in the field and from literature and together put into a SWAT model to investigate the hydrological cycle of the basin. Several scenarios were created in which the amount of coffee in the area was altered.