Resources Tagged: Ethiopia

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  1. Useful trees and shrubs for Ethiopia: identification, propagation, and management for agricultural and pastoral communities

    One of the main aims of this book is to benefit the rural people of Ethiopia by ercouraging them to grow more trees and shrubs of a wider variety of species than they have up to now. It provides information on a selection of useful tree and shrub species for the range of agroclimatic conditions...
    Ethiopia Multipurpose Shrubs Multipurpose trees Shrubs-Utilization Tree crops Trees Utilization

  2. Achieving Water Security Lessons from research in water supply, sanitation and hygene in Ethiopia

    While achieving water security remains an elusive goal across large swathes of sub-Saharan Africa, the benefits of investing in water, sanitation and hygiene to achieve basic water security and alleviate poverty are clear. Households benefit through a range of health, educational, nutritional and...
    Ethiopia Water Security Water-Supply Sanitation

  3. Species Diversity and Use of Homegardens in Misha Woreda, Hadiya Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Regional State, Ethiopia

    Abstract,International Journal of Food Science and Agriculture, 2018 Homegarden is an intensive land use system involving the deliberate management of multipurpose trees and shrubs grown in intimate association with herbaceous species with diverse use value. The aim of this study was to assess...
    Living Fence Home Garden Ethiopia Croton macrostachyus Hagenia abyssinica Cupresus lusitanica Phaseolus vulgaris

  4. Smallholder livelihoods play an important role in evaluating land degradation

    The wetlands are part of the complex coastal zone of Lake Tana, which lies just outside the top of the image. Individual fields and angular margins at the floodplain are indicative of the human use and modification of the wetlands. The Gilgel Abbay River is lined with very narrow fields that give...
    Ethiopia

  5. Flood Recession Agriculture PPT

    Flood recession agriculture is linked to areas that are prone to annual flooding, making use of the moisture left behind after the floods and sometimes even using the water of the rising floods as well.In Africa alone, flood recession agriculture may amount to over 20 M ha.
    Ethiopia

  6. Study on post-harvest quantitative and qualitative losses of potato tubers from two different road access districts of Jimma zone, South West Ethiopia

    Abstract, Heliyon, 2019 August One of the main challenges facing Ethiopia today is to ensure food security for its highly increasing population growth. Although the country's production is much lower than the national demand, there are high post-harvest food losses. Among several causes at...
    Post Harvest Food Loss Ethiopia

  7. Challenges and Opportunities of Seed Multiplication in Eastern Tigray Ethiopia

    Abstract, Journal of Biology, 2015 Seed is the most important agricultural input and it is the basic unit for distribution and maintenance of plant population. Improved crop varieties play a critical role in agricultural intensification. In Ethiopia, as in many other countries in sub-Saharan...
    Ethiopia Genetic Potential

  8. Inventory of Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation Measures on Selected Sites in the Ethiopian Highlands

    This report is the result of one year's collaboration between the Centre for Development Co-operation Services (CDCS) of the Free University of Amsterdam, the International Institute for Environment and Development, London, and the Soil Conservation Research Program, Addis Ababa. It compiles the...
    Geomorphology Ethiopia Africa

  9. Trees are our backbone Integrating environment and local development in Tigray Region of Ethiopia

    In this paper, we examine the policies and practices of the Ethiopian and Tigray Governments in response to environmental issues in the framework of development, and compare these with endogenous efforts to address thse same issues.
    Environmental Mana... Ethiopia

  10. Ethiopia : Famine Food Field Guide

    Rural people of Ethiopia are endowed with a deep knowledge concerning the use of wild plants. This is particularly true for the use of medicinal plants, but also for wild plants, some of which are consumed at times of drought, war and other hardship. Elders and other knowledgeable community...
    Ethiopia Wild Plants Medicinal Plants Food Security Famine Food Stress Wild Food East Africa