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Book (series)Agricultural interventions and food security in Ethiopia
What is the role of adjusting livelihood strategies?
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No results found.This paper assesses the food security impacts of widespread agricultural interventions, aiming at increasing agricultural yields, and explores the role played by adjustments in rural households’ livelihood strategies in mediating those impacts. Our empirical strategy combines project and remote-sensing data with a household panel survey and exploits the timing and geographic variation in the roll-out of interventions implemented from 2011 to 2016 by the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA), recently renamed as Agricultural Transformation Institute (ATI). Results show that agricultural interventions are effectively associated with higher agricultural yields, better food security outcomes and adjustments in livelihood strategies. However, when exploring the role of livelihood strategies through a Causal Mediation Analysis, we show that livelihood adjustments do not seem to play any mediating role in food security impacts. Heterogeneity analysis suggests that the absence of a mediating role stems from agricultural interventions affecting different types of households differently: the most vulnerable households primarily benefited through food security improvements while more-endowed households adjusted their livelihood strategies. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetEthiopia: Belgium's contribution through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities (SFERA) 2024
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No results found.The lives and livelihoods of an estimated one million people in Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been severely disrupted by the recent drought in the north. According to the recent seasonal assessment, 4.5 million people are acutely food insecure, including one million drought-affected people, one million internally displaced people, and 2.5 million host community members/returnees still grappling with the lingering impacts of the conflict. To mitigate the humanitarian and economic impacts of the drought, the Government of the Kingdom of Belgium contributed USD 500 000, through the Special Fund for Emergency and Rehabilitation Activities, to support the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO) emergency response in Tigray. In collaboration with the Tigray Bureau of Agriculture and Natural Resources, FAO will provide agricultural inputs (staple crop seeds) to 4 660 households, with each receiving enough seeds to plant 0.5 hectares during the upcoming main rainy season in late May/June 2024. -
ProjectTransforming Livelihoods of Tekeze Reservoir Fishing Communities Through Value Addition and Co-Management Interventions - TCP/ETH/3603 2020
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No results found.Bodies of water in Ethiopia have great potential to supportboth capture and culture fisheries as the country workstowards improved food security and nutritional goals. Inthe Tekeze hydropower reservoir, fishing is recognized asan important secondary use of the resource, contributingto the livelihoods of communities in the surroundingAmhara and Tigray regions. Fishing creates jobopportunities for unemployed and local, landlesscommunity members and diversifies the livelihoods forthose engaged in agricultural and other activities.Additionally, the Tekeze reservoir is located in one of theareas with the highest levels of under-nutrition inEthiopia. The challenging nature of under-nutrition andmalnutrition in Ethiopia warrants the use of alternativeapproaches to ensure food security and improve nutrition.As such, diversifying the livelihoods and diets ofcommunities that surround the Tekeze reservoir is apromising strategy.
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