Climate risk profile: Ethiopia
This profile provides an overview of climate risks facing Ethiopia, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture and crop production, livestock, water resources and human health. The
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Social protection, food security and nutrition in six African countries
Evaluations of social protection interventions across Africa often register significant success in improving household food security indicators, but little or no improvement in individual nutritional outcomes.
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Tripartite committee resumes meetings over Ethiopian Dam
The tripartite committee including water ministers of Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt on Tuesday has kicked off a new round of talks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Addis Ababa. The meeting
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Ethiopia's Struggle Against Climate Change Gets a Boost From Green Climate Fund
Addis Ababa — Faced with worsening droughts due to climate change, Ethiopia is joining an international initiative seeking to build global resilience against the problems caused by it, and enable developing
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Ecosystem-based adaptation: a handbook for EbA in mountain, dryland and coastal ecosystems
This handbook provides practical guidance for planning and implementing community-led ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) in three vulnerable ecosystems: mountains, drylands and coastal areas. It is intended
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Ethiopia: Monitoring Water Quality for Sustainable Water Management
The Awash Basin is the most utilized river basin in Ethiopia with a number of small, medium and large scale irrigation schemes; urban and rural water supply plans and industries located along the river.
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Ethiopia launches 50 MW waste energy plant
Ethiopia on Sunday commissioned Africa’s first major waste-to-energy plant designed to dispose three-quarters of the rubbish of capital Addis Ababa and provide energy to 25 percent of the population.
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Ethiopia deploys hidden rabies vaccine in bid to protect endangered wolf
Rabies vaccines hidden inside goat meat baits have been deployed in the first campaign to protect the Ethiopian wolf, Africa’s most endangered carnivore. There are less than 500 of the wolves in the
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Fighting silent death via environmentally-friendly stoves
ADDIS ABABA- Every single year, thousands of Ethiopian women and children die because of indoor air pollution. This is an instance of a silent death. At the same time five million Ethiopians suffer a respiratory
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Ethiopia Releases New, Perennial Sorghum Variety
Addis Ababa — Ethiopian scientists have developed a new sorghum variety that could lead to multiple yields annually. According to the National Statistics Agency in Ethiopia, the country has almost two
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Highlights of soil and water conservation investments in four regions of Ethiopia
This paper provides details of soil and water conservation (SWC) investments in Ethiopia over the past 20 years. It presents SWC practices and estimates the level of SWC investments in different regions.