Levels and composition of food consumption are major determinants of the nutritional wellbeing of individuals, which in turn, have important implications for health, productivity, and income. Analyzing food consumption patterns in poor countries, such as Ethiopia, is therefore pivotal to designing national policies to promote food security.Food consumption patterns in Ethiopia are diverse, and unlike in many other countries, no single crop dominates the national food basket (e.g., rice in most of East Asia, maize in Latin America, or cassava in Central Africa).
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2011Ethiopia, Eastern Africa
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summary of papers and proceedings of the conference held at the Axum Hotel, Mekelle, Ethiopia, March 28-29, 2002.
Policy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2003Eastern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, EthiopiaParticipants in this workshop reviewed and discussed findings from the research project‚ Policies for Sustainable Land Management in the Highlands of Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, begun in January 1998, and from other related research being conducted in the highlands of Tigray by Mekelle University and its collaborators.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2015Ethiopia, Eastern Africa
The paper revisits seasonality by assessing how the quantity and quality of diets vary across agricultural seasons in rural and
urban Ethiopia. Using unique nationally representative household level data for each month over one calendar year, we document
seasonal fluctuations in household diets in terms of both the quantity of calories and the number of different food groups
consumed. Households in both rural and urban areas consume less calories in the lean season, but interestingly, due to -
Library ResourceJanuary, 2008Ethiopia, Eastern Africa
The major economic activity for pastoralists is animal husbandry. The harsh environment in which herders raise their livestock requires constant mobility to regulate resource utilisation via a common property regime. In contrast to the mobile way of life characterizing pastoralism, agriculture as a sedentary activity is only marginally present in the lowlands of the Afar regional state in Ethiopia. Nevertheless, this study reveals a situation where the traditional land-use arrangements in Afar are being transformed due to the introduction of farming.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2014Ethiopia
This policy note summarizes research exploring the challenges and opportunities associated with building human, organizational, and institutional capacity to respond effectively to the adverse impacts of climate change as they relate to agriculture and rural livelihoods in developing countries.
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Library ResourceJanuary, 2014Ethiopia, Eastern Africa
This policy note summarizes research that analyzed the adverse impact of climate-related shocks on farm households’ real per capita consumption and asset ownership over time, as well as factors that exacerbate or ameliorate those adverse impacts.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsJanuary, 2008Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, South Africa
Over the coming decades, global change will have an impact on food and water security in significant and highly uncertain ways, and there are strong indications that developing countries will bear the brunt of the adverse consequences, particularly from climate change. This is largely because poverty levels are high, and developing-country capacity to adapt to global change is weak.
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Library ResourcePolicy Papers & BriefsDecember, 2001Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa, Ethiopia
This paper investigates the impacts of population growth, market access, agricultural credit and technical assistance programs, land policies, livelihood strategies and other factors on changes in land management, natural resource conditions and human welfare indicators since 1991 in the northern Ethiopian highlands, based on a survey of 198 villages. We find that population growth has contributed significantly to land degradation, poverty and food insecurity in this region.
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value chains and the poor
Journal Articles & BooksDecember, 2012Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia, Eastern Asia, Africa, Asia, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Colombia -
Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJanuary, 2006Ethiopia, Eastern Africa, Kenya, Uganda
Land degradation is a severe problem in the densely populated highlands of East Africa and elsewhere on the African continent. Soil erosion resulting from cultivation on steeply sloping terrain, mining of soil fertility due to continuous cultivation with limited application of inorganic or organic sources of soil nutrients, and deforestation and overgrazing of rangelands are among the key factors causing low agricultural productivity, widespread poverty, and food insecurity in the region.
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