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Proceedings of the Workshop on Flood-based Farming for Food Security and Adaption to Climate Change in Ethiopia: Potential and Challenges, Adama, Ethiopia, 30-31 October 2013

Reports & Research
January, 2014
Ethiopia, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Food Security
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
climate change
farmers
food security
households
land rights
poverty
sustainable land management
water rights
International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
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Does Ethiopia's productive safety net program improve child nutrition?

Reports & Research
December, 2014
Ethiopia
Land & Food Security
food security
We study the link between Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and short-run nutrition outcomes among children age 5 years and younger. We use 2006 and 2010 survey data from Northern Ethiopia to estimate parameters of an exogenous switching regression. This allows us to measure the differential impacts of household characteristics on weight-for-height Z-score of children in member and non-member households in PSNP. We find that the magnitude and significance of household covariates differ in samples of children from PSNP and non-PSNP households.
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Resource entitlement and welfare among resettlers in the dry forest frontiers of northwestern Ethiopia.

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Ethiopia, Eastern Africa
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
forestry
food security
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Plotting progress: integrated planning in the rangelands of Kenya, Ethiopia, and Uganda

Policy Papers & Briefs
February, 2014
Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
food security
land use
land-use planning
local communities
pastoral land rights
pastoralists
rangelands
Ill advised, uncoordinated, and badly planned interventions have been blamed for continuing poverty and food insecurity in rangelands. Water interventions in particular have had negative impacts. Not only have these interventions failed to improve the livelihoods of people living there, but in many cases they have served to undermine them and the environment on which they depend. Rangeland development interventions have been sectoral in their approach.
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Rainfall and Rainfall Variability

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Algeria, Niger, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle Africa, Eastern Africa, Northern Africa, Southern Africa, Western Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
food security
agriculture
rangelands
In Africa, where most agriculture is rainfed, crop growth is limited by water availability. Rainfall variability during a growing season generally translates into variability in crop production. While the seasonality of rainfall in the drier rangelands can play a significant role in productivity, rain-use efficiency (RUE)—the amount of biomass produced (in kilograms of dry matter per hectare) per millimeter of rainfall—also drives production.
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Flood-based Farming for Food Security and Adaption to Climate Change in Ethiopia: Potential and Challenges, Adama, Ethiopia, 30-31 October 2013

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2014
Ethiopia, Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa
food security
farmers
natural resources management
water management
water rights
land rights
poverty
climate change
agriculture
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Integrated National Policy Approaches to Climate-Smart Agriculture. Insights from Brazil, Ethiopia, and New Zealand

Reports & Research
July, 2014
Brazil, Ethiopia, New Zealand, Africa, Eastern Africa, Central America, South America, Oceania
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
food security
rangelands
In the absence of clear international policy signals and strong global agreements on climate change and sustainable agriculture, countries are moving forward to test sustainability strategies through innovative policies and financing programmes. This paper explores how three countries – Brazil, Ethiopia, and New Zealand – are using integrated policy approaches to address the linked challenges of climate change, unsustainable agriculture, and food insecurity.
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Implications of sustainable agricultural intensification for family farming in Africa: anthropological perspectives

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Ethiopia, Tanzania, Ghana, Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
farmers
food security
rangelands
land tenure
In this paper, we will explore the ways in which sustainable intensification interventions

often overlook fundamental social dynamics in rural landscapes. We provide evidence of

the underlying social, political and environmental contexts that affect farmers’ land-use

decisions. While there are numerous initiatives to promote a Green Revolution for Africa,

many tend to be dominated by technical fixes that fail to understand rural farmers’ condi

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tions or aspirations and focus narrowly on increasing productivity. These technical solu

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Underutilized wild edible plants in the Chilga District, northwestern Ethiopia: focus on wild woody plants

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Ethiopia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
Land & Food Security
deforestation
climate change
food security
land degradation
farmers
BACKGROUND: Ethiopia encompasses an extraordinary number of ecological zones and plant diversity. However, the diversity of plants is highly threatened due to lack of institutional capacity, population pressure, land degradation and deforestation. An adequate documentation of these plants also has not been conducted. The farmers in Ethiopia face serious and growing food insecurity caused by drought, land degradation and climate change. Thus, rural communities are dependent on underutilized wild edible plants to meet their food and nutritional needs.
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Land-use/land-cover (LULC) change and socioeconomic conditions of local community in the central highlands of Ethiopia

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Ethiopia
Land & Gender
Land & Food Security
food security
sustainable development
farming systems
farmers
poverty
women
This paper presents a case study of land-use/land-cover (LULC) changes from 1975 to 2014 in the central highlands of Ethiopia and traces out its impact on socioeconomic conditions of the local community in the study area. We used four time series Landsat satellite images, that is, Landsat MSS (1975), Landsat Thematic Mapper (1986), Enhanced Thematic Mapper (2000), and Landsat 8 OLI scenes (2014), to investigate the changes in LULC.