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    Formalising land rental transactions cover image

    Beneficial to smallholder farmers, particularly for vulnerable groups

    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2017
    Ethiopia

    How LIFT promotes formalisation
     

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    Promoting financial inclusion: Developing an innovative SLLC-linked loan product cover image
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2017
    Ethiopia

    Microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Ethiopia are offering farmers a new financial product: the SLLC-linked individual loan product

    With Second Level Land Certification (SLLC), MFIs have the security of knowing the ownership and exact landholding size of farmers. This has allowed the development of an innovative individual lending product that uses the produce of the land as a form of guarantee.

  3. Library Resource
    Enabling access to clean agricultural inputs and technologies: Improving farmer yields and businesses turnover cover image
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2017
    Ethiopia

    Supporting the agriculture sector

    The GoE with technical support from the Land Investment for Transformation (LIFT) programme is issuing Second Level Land Certificates (SLLC) to increase the land tenure security of farmers. As a result, farmers are more willing to invest in their land in a productive and sustainable way. However, to allow for increased productive investment, farmers must have access to improved agri-inputs and technologies that are climate smart: this is currently a challenge in most rural areas.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2015
    Ethiopia, Africa

    Recent surveys show considerable progress in maternal and child health in Ethiopia. The improvement has been in health outcomes and health services coverage. The study examines how different groups have fared in this progress. It tracked 11 health outcome indicators and health interventions related to Millennium Development Goals 1, 4, and 5. These are stunting, underweight, wasting, neonatal mortality, infant mortality, under-five mortality, measles vaccination, full immunization, modern contraceptive use by currently married women, antenatal care visits, and skilled birth attendance.

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    Is GPS the New Gold Standard in Land Area Measurement?

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    July, 2016
    Tanzania, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Africa

    In rural societies of low- and middle-income countries, land is a major measure of wealth, a critical input in agricultural production, and a key variable for assessing agricultural performance and productivity. In the absence of cadastral information to refer to, measures of land plots have historically been taken with one of two approaches: traversing (accurate, but cumbersome), and farmers' self-report (cheap, but marred by measurement error). Recently, the advent of cheap handheld GPS devices has held promise for balancing cost and precision.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2016
    Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa

    Trees on farms are often overlooked in agricultural and natural resource research and policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper addresses this gap using data from the Living Standards Measurement Study–Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in five countries: Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. Trees on farms are widespread. On average, one third of rural smallholders grow trees. They account for an average of 17 percent of total annual gross income for tree-growing households and 6 percent for all rural households.

  7. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2016
    Kenya, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nepal

    The Inspection Panel was created in 1993 by the Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank to receive complaints submitted by people suffering harm allegedly caused by World Bank projects. This experience provides important lessons for both the Bank and for the global development community at large. The Panel therefore launched this series of publications to draw the main emerging lessons from its caseload.

  8. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2015
    Ethiopia, Africa

    In developing countries, female entrepreneurs have low returns. Yet, the few women who cross over into traditionally male-dominated sectors double their profits. So why don't more women cross over? When parents and husbands support them, women are more likely to cross over. When they lack information on the earnings potential in male-dominated sectors, they are less likely to. This suggests a path to promote women entrepreneurs crossing over. The challenges Ethiopian women face in getting jobs and earning income come from a range of sources.

  9. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2016
    Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal, Ethiopia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa

    This paper illustrates how the capabilities of GIS and satellite imagery can be harnessed to explore and better understand the urban form of several large African cities (Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Kigali, Dar es Salaam, and Dakar). To allow for comparability across very diverse cities, this work looks at the above mentioned cities through the lens of several spatial indicators and relies heavily on data derived from satellite imagery.

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