Presented by Girum Abebe at EDRI on 3rd April. The promotion of micro and small enterprises has been a centerpiece of the Ethiopian government’s strategy to alleviate urban unemployment among the youth since 2004. Since this time, the government has created a business environment that is conducive to establishing and growing new MSEs. This research, […]
Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia (2012, International Food Policy Research Institute) Editors: Paul Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid Published by University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN 978-0-8122-4529-5 The book is designed to provide empirical evidence to shed light on the complexities of agricultural and food policy in today’s Ethiopia; highlight major policies and interventions of the past decade; […]
The Global Food Policy Report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions in 2014 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2015. It presents data for several key food policy indicators, including country-level data on hunger, agricultural research spending, and capacity for food policy research. To mark the launch of this flagship […]
Improving children’s diets is intrinsically valuable, not only to improve their wellbeing but because healthy diets lead to well-nourished and healthy children, who in turn become healthy and economically productive adults. Moreover, there is growing evidence that the quality of children’s diets – specifically the consumption of nutrient rich legumes and animal source foods as […]
As part of ESSP’s ongoing commitment to training, a 4-day GIS training course was delivered in March 2015 at Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, part of Hawassa University. 11 lecturers, 1 MSc and 4 PhD students participated in the training. The dean of the college, Dr. Girma Mengesha, was grateful for the […]
This conference on nutrition scheduled for Monday 15th June 2015, promises to be an invaluable opportunity for all those involved in nutrition in Ethiopia to meet and exchange ideas, from a very practical perspective as well as from solid research. Aside from networking, the purpose of the conference is to present the most recent evidence […]
The Agricultural Economics Society of Ethiopia (AESE) held its annual conference on 27 March 2015 at the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research Meeting Hall in Addis Ababa. The event was co-sponsored by IFPRI-ESSP. Approximately 40 people attended and were rewarded with presentations and discussions on a diverse range of topics including women’s empowerment, agricultural technology adoption […]
IFPRI’s flagship report puts into perspective the major food policy issues, developments, and decisions in 2014 and highlights challenges and opportunities for 2015. Drawing on rigorous research, IFPRI researchers and other distinguished food policy experts consider a wide range of crucial questions: How can middle income countries, which despite becoming more affluent are still home […]
Listen and watch Bart Minten (Senior Research Fellow and Program Leader) to see how ESSP works in Ethiopia, fostering close links with the local community and policy makers to generate effective research themes. 6 themes have been identified: Agricultural Transformation Value Chains Agricultural prices and Food Prices Land and Water Management Risk Productive Safety Net […]
On February 20, 2015, a short presentation on the relationship between children’s diet diversity, household production diversity and market access was delivered by Kalle Hirvonen at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) from ESSP. In total, 51 people from a wide range of alliances attended, indicating a particular interest in this important topic for Ethiopia. […]
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