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Ethiopia
Here are relevant articles from various sources on drylands' issues in Ethiopia.
Climate Change in Eastern and Southern Africa: Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation
Report 2008:2 from GECHS, University of Oslo
Food for Thought: Livestock Feeding Support during Drought
Pastoralist Livelihoods Initiative
Policy Brief
Number 2 November 2007

Lessons from Ethiopia on a scaled-up national safety net programme
Wahenga brief number 14, august 2007
Constraints and Opportunities of Horticulture Production and Marketing in Eastern Ethiopia
DCG Policy Brief No. 1
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Consumption risk, technology adoption and poverty traps: evidence from Ethiopia
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4257, June 2007
Trees are our backbone
Integrating environment and local development in Tigray Region of Ethiopia.
IIED Issue paper no. 145.
Size: 930kb

Famine and Starvation in Ethiopia: Politics, Rights, Entitlements
Master thesis at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway.
Size: 1,43 MB

Food Security Policy Advice
Summary of a Lessons Learned Study
on three German TC Policy Advisory Projects
in Cambodia, Ethiopia and Mozambique

Migration and Livelihoods: The Voluntary Resettlement Program in Ethiopia
Master thesis, Noragric.
Saving lives through livelihoods:
Critical gaps in the response to the drought in the Greater Horn of Africa.
Fruits and Vegetables Production and Management
Here is a manual which serves as a technical guideline for vegetable and fruit production and management developed by experts in the field of horticulture from Mekelle University staff, Department of Dryland Crop and Horticultural Sciences. In order to serve local users (Development Agent’s and farmers) the manual was prepared in Amharic language.
Fighting Hunger and Poverty in Ethiopia
This book provides an overview of the implementation of Ethiopia’s National Policy for Disaster Prevention and
Management (NPDPM), with a particular focus on Employment Generation Schemes (EGS) and its potential contribution towards hunger eradication and poverty reduction.

Empowering landless youth by distributing hillside land
This Promising Practice was developed by the Development Fund and illustrates the work of REST in Tigray, Ethiopia which thanks to its encouraging results may provide inspiration for others. This publication describes the project, the actors involved and highlights some impacts, challenges, and lessons learned.
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Policy analysis for sustainable land management and food security in Ethiopia
This research by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in the highlands of Ethiopia shows how poverty and land degradation can be reduced in an agricultural area facing resource constraints. The study uses a bioeconomic model
to address how alternative policy options can affect poverty and land degradation.

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Managing Resources in Erratic Environments: An Analysis of Pastoralist Systems
This research report from the International Food Policy Research Institute discusses community-level outcomes that can be affected by both climate variability and by externalities generated when managing the commons. The report focuses on pastoralist systems in in Ethiopia, Niger, and Burkina Faso.
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