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El Niño in Ethiopia
Program observations on the impact of the Ethiopia drought and recommendations for action
Ethiopia is facing a massive drought and food insecurity crisis. The impact of failed rains and droughts have been worsened by the 2015 El Niño, which itself has been supercharged by climate change. Urgent humanitarian action is needed to support millions of people who have lost food, water and livelihoods....
Ethiopia
2016 - Oxfam International
Book
Agroecology: the bold future of farming in Africa
The 88 page illustrated book showcases 15 case studies, showing how agroecology benefits Africa in terms of food and nutrition, livelihoods, restoration of biodiversity, knowledge and innovation, and climate change resilience.
Leading experts in their fields explain how agroecology reforms food systems to promote better nutrition and health, especially among poor...
Burkina Faso - Ethiopia - Ghana - Kenya - Malawi - Togo - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zimbabwe
2016 - Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) & Tanzania Organic Agriculture Movement (TOAM)
Video
Season of Hope: Countering an El Niño-induced drought in Ethiopia
In 2015, drought exacerbated by El Niño ravaged Ethiopia’s highlands and lowlands, resulting in crop failure and wide-scale animal losses. To counter the devastating impact on the vulnerable smallholder farmers that make up the bulk of Ethiopia’s workforce, FAO initiated a number of livestock and crop-based interventions in order to...
Ethiopia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Project
Non-farm income and labor markets in rural Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s economy is rapidly transforming. However, the extent to which this is affecting off-farm income and labor markets in rural areas is not well understood. Based on a large-scale household survey in high potential agricultural areas, we find that total off-farm income (defined as wage and enterprise income) makes up...
Ethiopia
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Working paper
The rapid expansion of herbicide use in smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia
Patterns, drivers, and implications
We use qualitative and quantitative information from a number of datasets to study the adoption patterns and labor productivity impacts of herbicide use in Ethiopia. We find a four-fold increase in the value of herbicides imported into Ethiopia over the last decade, primarily by the private-sector. Adoption of herbicides by...
Ethiopia
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Project
Video-based agricultural extension: Analysis of a pilot project in Ethiopia
Since 2014, Digital Green and the Government of Ethiopia have been piloting a project to introduce a community-centric video approach to agricultural extension provision.1 Digital Green’s approach has the potential to transform extension in Ethiopia via a fairly simple impact pathway. By providing a cost-effective ap-proach to information dissemination, video-based...
Ethiopia
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Working paper
Cities and agricultural transformation in Africa
Evidence from Ethiopia
Due to the rapid growth of cities in Africa, many more farmers are now living in rural hinterlands in relatively close proximity to cities. However, empirical evidence on how urbanization affects these farmers is scarce. To fill this gap, this paper explores the relationship between proximity to a city and...
Ethiopia
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Blog article
FAO-IGAD renew Drought Resilience Partnership Programme
FAO Sub-Regional Office for East Africa and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) have signed a partnership agreement to coordinate cross-border efforts on animal health, trade and natural resources management coordination. The programme will address community engagement on policy and investment as well as cross cutting areas of work such...
Burundi - Central African Republic - Djibouti - Ethiopia - Kenya - Rwanda - Somalia - South Sudan - Sudan - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Working paper
Decomposing sources of productivity change in small scale farming in Ethiopia
The average farm size in Ethiopia is shrinking and the option for expanding the land frontier is also very limited. As a result, increasing farm productivity is critical for achieving higher growth and national food security. Identifying the drivers of productivity and weighing their significance are therefore vital for effective...
Ethiopia
2016 - African Development Bank Group
Technical paper
Promoting gender equality in irrigation
Feed the Future Innovation Laboratory for Small Scale Irrigation (FTF-ILSSI) project notes
Small-scale irrigation is increasingly recognized as a key strategy for enhancing agricultural productivity and food security under growing climate uncertainty in Africa south of the Sahara. Rainfed production dominates the region, but governments and other stakeholders are increasing investments in irrigation. As these efforts are being rolled out, the gender...
Ethiopia - Ghana - United Republic of Tanzania
2016 - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Video
Adapting agriculture to Climate Change: a Perspective from Ethiopia
This presentation was held by Million Beley from MELCA-Ethiopia at the World Food Day 2016 event in Stockholm on the 14th of October 2016.
Ethiopia
2016 - SIANI
Journal article
Adoption and farm-level impact of conservation agriculture in Central Ethiopia
Soil erosion and degradation is an important agro-ecological challenge in the highlands of Ethiopia. Conservation agriculture (CA) has a long time been identified as one of the key interventions that could abate the current trend of physical and chemical erosion of soil. This study analyzed adoption of the different components...
Ethiopia
2016
Journal article
Characterization of production system and breeding practices of sheep producers in Doyogena district, Southern Ethiopia
An exploratory survey was undertaken in Doyogena district of Southern Nation Nationalities Peoples region of Ethiopia to understand the sheep production system, the breeding practices, selection criteria and sheep production constraints in order to develop a sheep breeding strategy. Data were collected from 107 households using semi-structured questionnaire and group...
Ethiopia
2016
Report
2015–2016 El Niño
Early action and response for agriculture, food security and nutrition
El Niño is the warming of sea surface temperature in the tropical Pacific, which occurs roughly every 2 to 7 years, lasting from 6 to 24 months. While the main threat to food production is reduced rainfall and drought in some regions, El Niño can also cause heavy rains and...
El Salvador - Ethiopia - Haiti - Honduras - Indonesia - Lesotho - Malawi - Mongolia - Mozambique - Nicaragua - Papua New Guinea - Philippines - Somalia - South Africa - Timor-Leste - Zimbabwe
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Blog article
FAO Resilience Building Projects Pay Off in El Niño Affected Communities
Livelihood diversification and access to water boosted the capacity to survive drought impacts
FAO’s water and income diversification projects have become instrumental to tackle the negative impacts of El Niño induced drought for pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in the Afar Region of north eastern Ethiopia. FAO supports the Afar regional government’s effort to improve the livelihood of pastoral and semi-pastoral households through animal...
Ethiopia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Project
Youth mobility, food security and rural poverty reduction
The FAO Youth Mobility, Food Security and Rural Poverty Reduction (RYM) project aims at mitigating distress economic mobility in Tunisia and Ethiopia. With the support of the Italian Development Cooperation, the project will promote innovative mechanisms and rural development strategies with the objective of mitigating distress migration for rural youth...
Ethiopia - Tunisia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Report
Make it rain
Floods, droughts, heat waves, cold spells, and other natural disasters are large sources of risk for farmers. For instance, in semiarid areas of India, 89 percent of farming households cited drought as the largest risk to agricultural production. Climate change may make weather patterns more extreme and unpredictable, further exposing...
Ethiopia - Ghana - India - Malawi
2016 - The Agricultural Technology Adoption Initiative (ATAI)
Blog article
Marking end of the International Year of Pulses through IPM-FFS learning event in Ethiopia
Pulses have a huge share in Ethiopia’s agriculture crop production. As figures show, Ethiopia annually produces over 400 000 metric tons of chickpea, which places the country among the top ten largest chickpea producers in the world.
About five million Ethiopian smallholder farmers are relying on the production of pulses for...
Ethiopia
2016 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
Conference paper
The smallholder development by remittances of migrants
The following pages report the results of our survey conducted among (Malian, Senegalese and Mauritanian) Soninké migrants during the period of 14th to 4 December 2015, living in the social residences of the former home Pinel (first home of migrant workers in France). This survey had to aim to discuss...
Ethiopia
2016 - 5th International Conference of the African Association of Agricultural Economists
Book
Economics of land degradation and improvement
This book on Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement provides with valuable knowledge and information both at the global, regional, and national levels on the costs of land degradation and benefits of taking action against land degradation. A key advantage of this book is that it goes beyond the conventional...
Argentina - Bhutan - China - Ethiopia - India - Kenya - Malawi - Niger - Russian Federation - Senegal - United Republic of Tanzania - Uzbekistan
2016 - Springer International Publishing
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