Food systems approaches are increasingly used to better understand transitions in diets,
sustainable resource use and social inclusion. Moreover, food systems frameworks are also …

Drawing on a database of more than one hundred anti-poverty interventions in 47
countries,'Targeting of Transfers in Develo** Countries' provides a general review of …

Significant attention has focused on the possibility that climate change will displace large
populations in the develo** world, but few multivariate studies have investigated climate …

Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million
people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to …

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This book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years,
assessing the current situation as well as future prospects. Issues such as political …

This paper investigates the land management practices used in the highlands of Tigray,
northern Ethiopia, the factors influencing them and their implications for crop production and …

This article explores the useful distinction between chronic and transitory poverty in
understanding rural welfare dynamics, highlighting the possibility of poverty traps and their …

Child stunting in Ethiopia has persisted at alarming rates, despite enormous amounts of food
aid, often procured in response to shocks. Using nationally representative data, the study …

Food insecurity in Ethiopia derives directly from dependence on undiversified livelihoods
based on low-input, low-output rainfed agriculture. Ethiopian farmers do not produce …