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The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) weather event of 2015/16 caused severe drought conditions in northern and central Ethiopia affecting the welfare of millions of farmers in late 2015 and early 2016. Using nationally representative panel data collected in 2012 and 2016 and recent advances in the difference-indifferences literature, this paper explores the effects of […]

▪ Adoption of improved biomass stoves was dominated by women, adoption of motor pumps and domestic solar technologies was dominated by men ▪ Modern energy technologies outside the domestic cooking domain. Less likely to directly benefit women ▪ Enhancing gender equality and women’s empowerment in rural energy use requires targeted approaches ▪ Design, promotion and […]

Changing climatic conditions and extreme weather events pose important risks for poor rural households in Ethiopia • Women may face different and/or exacerbated risks due to reduced access to financial resources, limited livelihood opportunities, and norms that restrict adaptive behaviors • Strategies to enhance resiliency to extreme weather realizations through sustainable land management (SLM) practices […]

While indirect response methods are increasingly used in surveys to measure sensitive behaviours such as intimate partner violence, important questions persist around how respondents understand and react to these methods. This article presents evidence from a list experiment measuring multiple forms of intimate partner violence in rural Ethiopia. We find that the list experiment does […]

Local food markets play crucial roles in promoting dietary diversity and improving nutritional outcomes in poor rural communities. Evidence on the quality of local food markets in Africa in providing these nutritious foods in the face of climatic shocks is however limited, partly due to lack of appropriate metrics to measure food market qualities in […]