On February 10, 2015, a workshop, organized as part of the IFPRI-led Food Security Portal (PSP) project, took place in Addis Ababa. In total 36 people attended from various organizations, including donors, researchers, international NGOs, government institutions and policy makers. This European Commission-funded FSP project is now in its second phase, and continues to attract […]
Remoteness: its impact on markets and communities
Last week marked the end of the 2nd round household survey. Its purpose has been to assess the impact of remoteness on village communities in Alefa Woreda, south-west of Gonder. This is an isolated area with little or no electricity and mobile phone access. The terrain is rugged and the lack of access to markets […]
ESSP Newsletter October – December 2014
The Ethiopia Strategy Support Program would like to present you its quarterly newsletter for the months October - December 2014. The newsletter presents: - Upcoming Events Regional GIS Training in Tigray region from 14-16 January, 2015 15th Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society of Ethiopia (AESE) on ‘Performance of the Ethiopian agriculture in the face of […]
Who benefits from rapidly increasing Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS)? Evidence from coffee in Ethiopia
Homepage content On October 17, 2014, Bart Minten, Mekdim Dereje, Ermias Engida and Seneshaw Tamru delivered a presentation at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) in Addis Ababa on Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) for coffee in Ethiopia. There is a growing global emphasis on VSS practices in response to social and environmental pressure as well as […]
2014 Global Hunger Index
The 2014 Global Hunger Index (GHI) report—the ninth in an annual series—presents a multidimensional measure of national, regional, and global hunger. It shows that the world has made progress in reducing hunger since 1990, but still has far to go, with levels of hunger remaining “alarming” or “extremely alarming” in 16 countries. This year’s report […]
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