This article was originally posted on IFPRI's Insights website. Can insurance help Ethiopian farmers survive the droughts that are likely to come? Recently, scientists uncovered the inconvenient truth that drought in eastern Africa is likely here to stay. They placed the blame squarely on climate change—namely, on the linkage between the warming Indian Ocean and […]
Land Constraints and Agricultural Intensification in Ethiopia
ESSP Working Paper 58 "Land constraints and agricultural intensification in Ethiopia" by Derek Headey, Mekdim Dereje, Jacob Ricker-Gilbert, Anna Josephson and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse . Abstract: Highland Ethiopia is one of the most densely populated regions of Africa and has long been associated with both Malthusian disasters and Boserupian agricultural intensification. This paper explores the race […]
2013 Global Hunger Index (GHI)
The International Food Policy Research Institute, Concern Worldwide Ethiopia, and Welthungerhilfe have published ‘The Global Hunger Index Report 2013’ on October 14, 2013. The report comprehensively measure and track global hunger. The Index combines three equally weighted indicators and ranks countries on the overall score. The three indicators are: the proportion of people who are […]
An Assessment of IFPRI’S Work in Ethiopia 1995–2010
In 2004, IFPRI and Ethiopia formalized their relationship via the establishment of the Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (ESSP). Set up to provide direct support to the Government of Ethiopia, ESSP assisted in the design and implementation of the country’s national agricultural development strategy, and provides advice on other agricultural and rural development policy matters. For […]
ESSP II Newsletter September – October 2013
The Ethiopia Strategy Support Program would like to present its bimonthly newsletter for the months September-October 2013. The newsletter covers: Upcoming events Several workshops on the impact of the Productive Safety Nets Program (PSNP) will be held in September 2013 in regional capitals and in Addis Ababa. A day-long conference on “Improved evidence towards better […]
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