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Improving pasture management in arid and semi-arid lands in the Horn of Africa through Pastoralist Field Schools
Recurrent drought, degraded rangelands and reduced access to traditional grazing lands have left pastoral communities in the Horn of Africa’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs) more vulnerable and facing severe livestock feed shortages. During dry spells, pastoral communities suffer from food and nutrition insecurity, as well as shrinking incomes occasioned...
Ethiopia - Kenya
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
متنوّعات
Smallholders data-portrait
The updated dataset on Small Family Farms across the world
The Smallholder Farmers’ Dataportrait of the ESA Small Family Farms Team is a comprehensive, systematic and standardized data set on the profile of smallholder farmers, bringing out the characteristics of family farms across the world. It is designed in such a way that differences between countries and regions can be...
Albania - Bangladesh - Bolivia (Plurinational State of) - Cambodia - Ethiopia - Ghana - Guatemala - Indonesia - Kenya - Malawi - Nepal - Nicaragua - Niger - Nigeria - Panama - Tajikistan - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Viet Nam
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO
كتاب
Stories of Change
Read the latest publication by Tropical Agriculture Platform – Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems (TAP-CDAIS) project on stories of change. This relates to many stories of personal change, organizational change, changes in attitudes, changes in practice and improvements in livelihoods. Some examples of rich learning experiences started with the...
Angola - Bangladesh - Burkina Faso - Ethiopia - Guatemala - Honduras - Lao People's Democratic Republic - Rwanda
2018
مقالة
Zumra Nuru and Awra Amba
a story from 10.000 gardens in Africa
Awra Amba is an intentional community of around 500 people founded in northern Ethiopia to combat poverty, exploitation and gender inequality.
At the heart of this magnanimous project is a simple question: why should any one human being exploit another? This is the question that the founder of Awra Amba, Zumra...
Ethiopia
2018
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
Ending hunger in the Horn of Africa
Moving from rhetoric to action
Food insecurity and poor nutritional status remain widespread problems in the Horn of Africa (HOA). A multi-pronged nutrition-sensitive approach to development has been shown to be the best route for sustained reductions in undernutrition. One of the objectives of this report was to review Food and Nutrition Security (FNS) coordination...
Djibouti - Ethiopia - Kenya - Rwanda - South Sudan - Uganda
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Ethiopia’s youth find hope in agricultural entrepreneurship
The South Wollo Zone of Amhara Region in Ethiopia is one of the areas of focus for FAO’s two-year project on Youth mobility, food security and poverty reduction. With funding from the Italian Development Cooperation, the RYM Project began in 2015 and ended in February 2018.
About 71 percent of Ethiopia’s population...
Ethiopia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
دراسة حالة
Promoting alternatives to migration for rural youth in Tunisia and Ethiopia
Youth mobility, food security and rural poverty reduction (RYM) project
Each year, rural areas lose a promising share of their workforce, as youth leave their homes and migrate to cities or move abroad in search of a better future. The distress induced by poverty, food insecurity and a lack of employment opportunities push many youth around the world to search...
Ethiopia - Tunisia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مشروع
Emergency assistance for smallholders affected by el niño-induced drought in Ethiopia
Despite government efforts to reduce poverty and food insecurity, Ethiopia remains one of the world’s poorest countries, with around 25 million people living in extreme poverty. The country is exposed to a wide range of natural hazards, especially recurrent drought, such as that induced by El Niño in Amhara and...
Ethiopia
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
وثيقة فنية
Farmers’ grain storage and losses in Ethiopia
Measures and associates
Storage losses at the farm are often assumed to be an important contributor to presumed large postharvest losses in developing countries. However, reliable and representative data on these losses are often lacking. The study investigates farmers’ storage decisions and self-reported storage losses for grain based on two recent large-scale household...
Ethiopia
2018 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
The FAO Blue Growth Initiative
Strategy for the Development of Fisheries and Aquaculture in Eastern Africa
As part of FAO’s Blue Growth Initiative (BGI) the FAO Member Countries of the Eastern Africa Sub-Region met to agree on a strategy for the Development of Fisheries and Aquaculture within the Blue Growth Initiative in Eastern Africa (BGI Strategy). The BGI is an FAO flagship initiative that aims at...
Burundi - Ethiopia - Kenya - Rwanda - Somalia - South Sudan - Uganda
2018 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
Forty years of natural hazards turning into food insecurity disasters in eastern Africa
Actions to enhance climate-related disaster risk reduction in food security and agriculture
For over 40 years, natural hazards (mainly droughts, floods and landslides) have affected millions of people in the eastern Africa sub-region. The impact of these hazards have been high, continue to rise in frequency and are mostly felt in the agriculture and food sectors. In some other countries of the...
Burundi - Djibouti - Ethiopia - Kenya - Rwanda - South Sudan - Uganda
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقال صحفي
Ethiopian dairy value chains
Quality upgrading in ethiopian dairy value chains: dovetailing upstream and downstream perspectives
In this article, we analyze opportunities and constraints for upgrading product quality in the dairy value chain in Ethiopia. Our analysis is based on an integrated understanding of supply chain performance both from producer and from consumer perspectives. We outline as main drivers for quality upgrading: (a) factors that influence...
Ethiopia
2017
تقرير
European Young Farmers: Building a Sustainable Sector
Survey
The report outlines the results of an EU-wide survey among young farmers carried out by CEJA and DeLaval in all Member States. Based on a questionnaire, the objective was to discover the opinion of young farmers in relation to the sustainability of the agricultural sector, together with the challenges they...
Ethiopia
2017 - CEJA
تقرير
The household- and individual-level economic impacts of cash transfer programmes in Sub-Saharan Africa
Synthesis report
This report synthesizes the analysis and findings of a set of seven country impact evaluation studies that explore the impact of cash transfer programmes on household economic decision-making, productive activities and labour allocation in sub-Saharan Africa. The seven countries are Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Results from...
Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Malawi - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
Ethiopia’s huge honey production potential in search of modern techniques
The beehives of Ethiopia, Africa’s top honey producer, make about a quarter of the continent’s honey, but travellers who come to sample the liquid gold often find there isn’t enough to go around.
In a country where 85% of all jobs are in agriculture, industry experts say the beekeeping – or...
Ethiopia
2017 - EurActiv
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
New drought risks in Ethiopia put recovery at risk
FAO targets pastoralists in southern regions facing failed rains on heels of a calamitous El Niño
New drought across swathes of southern Ethiopia may jeopardize the East African nation's restoration of food security after the worst agricultural seasons in decades unless urgent efforts are made to shore up vulnerable households in rural areas, FAO warned today.
While an impressive government-led humanitarian effort has sharply reduced the number...
Ethiopia
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
كتاب
Agroecology: The Bold Future of Farming in Africa
Agroecology is deeply rooted in the ecological rationale of traditional small-scale agriculture, representing long established examples of successful agricultural systems characterized by a tremendous diversity of domesticated crop and animal species maintained and enhanced by ingenuous soil, water and biodiversity management regimes, nourished by complex traditional knowledge systems. Such complex...
Burkina Faso - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Malawi - Togo - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zimbabwe
2017 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA)
مقالة في مدونة إلكترونية
The EU must take the lead in linking agricultural trade to the SDGs
Trade in agriculture must now also play a central role in implementing many of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed by the United Nations in autumn 2015. The SDGs will have a direct and profound effect on trade in agriculture. Agriculture, in turn, will have a key role in...
Ethiopia
2017 - EurActiv
وثيقة عمل
Credit constraints and farm productivity
Micro-level evidence from smallholder farmers in Ethiopia
This paper investigates the nature, extent, and impacts of credit constraints in Ethiopia’s agriculture. Using a direct elicitation approach on a panel of 5,308 smallholder farmers, we find that around 66.6% were credit constrained, a majority of them (71.9%) due to risk factors and transaction costs (14.33%). The hypothesized heterogeneity...
Ethiopia
2017 - African Development Bank (AfDB)
موجز في السياسات/ وثيقة في السياسات
The economic case for the expansion of social protection programmes
Social protection is increasingly recognized as a critical strategy for poverty reduction and inclusive growth. Both, the 2030 Agenda, as well as Agenda for Humanity, stress the critical role social protection can play in the fight against poverty and exclusion, but also as a component of resilience building. However, more...
Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Lesotho - Malawi - Zambia - Zimbabwe
2017 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
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