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Ethiopia Urbanization Review : Urban Institutions for a Middle-Income Ethiopia

Reports & Research
April, 2015
Ethiopia
Urban Tenure
land-use planning
urban planning
urban land
housing rights
The urban population in Ethiopia is increasing rapidly. If managed proactively, urban population growth presents a huge opportunity to shift the structure and location of economic activity from rural agriculture to the larger and more diversified urban industrial and service sectors. If not managed proactively, rapid urban population growth may pose a demographic challenge as cities struggle to provide jobs, infrastructure and services, and housing.
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The economic lives of smallholder farmers

An analysis based on household data from nine countries

Reports & Research
March, 2015
Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Albania
Land & Food Security
sustainable development
land-use planning
rural areas
land use
smallholders
rural population
About two-thirds of the developing world’s 3 billion rural people live in about 475 million small farm households, working on land plots smaller than 2 hectares. 1 Many are poor and food insecure and have limited access to markets and services. Their choices are constrained, but they farm their land and produce food for a substantial proportion of the world’s population. Besides farming they have multiple economic activities, often in the informal economy, to contribute towards their small incomes.
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We Say the Land is Not Yours: Breaking the Silence Against Forced Displacement in Ethiopia

Reports & Research
April, 2015
Ethiopia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
land administration
land governance
corruption
land use
land grabbing
land rights
dispossession
eviction
indigenous peoples' land rights
land ownership
Over the past six years, the Oakland Institute has been at the forefront of exposing the social, economic, and environmental impacts of foreign land grabs in Ethiopia.
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Participatory rangeland management planning and its implementation in Ethiopia

Conference Papers & Reports
March, 2015
Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
pastoral lands
rangelands
pastoralists
The pastoral and agro-pastoral areas of Ethiopia cover around 65% of the country’s surface area. Rangeland resources are managed under collective common property arrangements, which are increasingly coming under pressure from both internal and external forces of change including alternative, but not necessarily ‘appropriate’, land uses.
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LIVES fifth progress report October 1, 2014–March 31, 2015

Reports & Research
March, 2015
Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
water management
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Assessment of livestock production systems, the potential of feed availability, farming system and livestock production problems in Fogera District, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

Reports & Research
March, 2015
Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
farming systems
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Agricultural Adaptation and Institutional Responses to Climate Change Vulnerability in Ethiopia

Reports & Research
March, 2015
Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
climate change
food security
agriculture
rangelands
Climate change is a major development challenge to Ethiopia. Climate change is expected to

adversely affect all economic sectors, eco-regions, and social groups. Agriculture is one of the

most vulnerable sectors as it is highly dependent on rainfall. This report synthesises four case

studies focusing on the impacts, vulnerabilities and local adaptation practices in Ethiopia‘s

agricultural sector, including policy and institutional responses. The case studies were carried