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    Ethiopia

    Reports & Research
    Training Resources & Tools
    April, 2012
    Ethiopia, Africa

    Because agriculture is the economic backbone of most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia, any meaningful sustainable development program in the continent must therefore be anchored in the sector. The concept for this study on agribusiness indicators was based on the vital role that agribusiness plays in agricultural development. The study focuses on agribusiness indicators (ABI) to identify and isolate the determining factors that lead private investors and other stakeholders to participate in agribusiness and to engage in discourse regarding its development.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2014
    Madagascar

    German Development Cooperation has developed an approach for the sustainable production of charcoal that has proved to have a considerable impact in Northern Madagascar. Since both environmental and socioeconomic aspects are addressed in a very effective way, this approach has high potential referring to global challenges such as land degradation, rural poverty and climate change.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2006
    Rwanda

    Most of the world’s poor work in the “informal economy” – outside of recognized and enforceable rules.
    Thus, even though most have assets of some kind, they have no way to document their possessions
    because they lack formal access to legally recognized tools such as deeds, contracts and permits.
    The Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (CLEP) is the first global anti-poverty initiative
    focusing on the link between exclusion, poverty and law, looking for practical solutions to the challenges

  4. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Ethiopia

    This report presents an update on the
    economic challenges facing Ethiopia with a focus on the
    shared goal of accelerating equitable growth. The starting
    point is the Government's own Plan for Accelerated and
    Sustained Development to End Poverty (PASDEP), which is in
    the process of finalization, and is designed to cover the
    period 2005-2010. This report proposes that the growth
    strategy should more explicitly adopt a

  5. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Mozambique

    Based on a literature review and expert
    interviews, this paper analyzes the most important climate
    impacts on development goals and explores relevant
    institutions in the context of mainstreaming climate
    adaptation into development assistance in Mozambique.
    Climate variability and change can significantly hinder
    progress toward attaining the Millennium Development Goals
    and poverty aggravates the country's climate

  6. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Ethiopia, Ghana

    Poverty, environment, social
    development, and gender are important cross-cutting themes
    of the World Bank and government investment programs,
    especially within the Sustainable Development Network (SDN).
    For developing sectoral strategies and programs, economic,
    environment and social assessments are undertaken, however,
    these are usually done separately, and most often gender
    issues are not included. This is a missed opportunity,

  7. Library Resource
    December, 2012
    South Sudan, Sudan

    The work described in this report is a
    first step to addressing the longer-term issues related to
    the competitiveness of South Sudan's farmers in a
    regional context. It focuses on the options for increasing
    the amount and value of agricultural production in the crop
    sector, the potential contribution of rural roads to
    increasing crop production and how to sequence and
    prioritize rural road investments in a way that maximizes

  8. Library Resource
    February, 2013
    Uganda

    A Country Environmental Analysis (CEA)
    is a World Bank analytical tool used to integrate
    environmental issues into development assistance strategies,
    programs, and projects. To that end, the CEA synthesizes
    environmental issues, highlights the environmental and
    economic implications of development policies, and evaluates
    the country's environmental management capacity. It is
    composed of three analytical building blocks: the

  9. Library Resource
    February, 2014
    Uganda

    This report summarizes the findings of
    the Uganda Sustainable Land Management Public Expenditure
    Review (SLM PER). The SLM PER was undertaken to achieve six
    main objectives: (i) establish a robust data base on
    SLM-related public expenditure that can support credible
    empirical analysis; (ii) develop a sound methodology for
    conducting SLM PERs, which could guide similar work in the
    future; (iii) analyze the level and composition of SLM

  10. Library Resource
    Stakeholder Assessment of Opportunities and Constraints to Sustainable Land Management in Ethiopia cover image
    Reports & Research
    June, 2012
    Ethiopia

    Stakeholders' perceptions of
    opportunities and constraints to sustainable land management
    in Ethiopia was assessed through interviews and a review of
    secondary data. Stakeholders included farmers as well as
    representatives of development agencies, agricultural
    organizations, donors, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs),
    and agricultural research systems. Stakeholders generally
    perceive that the numerous, well-intentioned but piecemeal

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