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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Ethiopia: Join Hands to Succeed Ethiopia's Climate Change Resilience Strategy
Recently, the World Bank (WB) announced that it will continue working with the government and the public to sustain the success of Ethiopia to build climate resilient economy. Speaking at the official
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Investors could pour billions into farm, forest protection: bankers
Protecting the world's dwindling forests and making small farms more productive will cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually – money governments and charities do not have to spend, experts said at
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Ethiopia to cut carbon emissions by two-thirds by 2030
Ethiopia has set targets to slash carbon emissions by two-thirds within the next 15 years, the most ambitious goal so far presented to an upcoming UN climate change conference in Paris. "Ethiopia intends
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New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity
Middle Pliocene hominin species diversity has been a subject of debate over the past two decades, particularly after the naming of Australopithecus bahrelghazali and Kenyanthropus platyops in addition
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Climate change is HELPING Africa because greenhouse gases are bringing rain to areas that have suffered drought for decades, says new study
Climate change means rain is returning to previously drought-stricken areas of Africa exactly 30 years since Live Aid raised £150million to help starving people there, a new study has revealed. A severe
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Biofuel investments and implications for the environment in Ethiopia: an economy-wide analysis
Biofuels production has received increasing focus by developed and developing countries due to rising fossil fuel prices and the need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. The net economic and environmental
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Ethiopia: State Health On Maternal, Newborn Death Reduced
It was disclosed that the maternal and infant death rate in the Afar State has shown a significant decline compared with the past few years. It was so disclosed at the project launching entitled "Stand
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Climate change and health vulnerability in informal urban settlements in the Ethiopian Rift Valley
Climate change in Ethiopia is occurring against a backdrop of rapid population growth and urbanization, entrenched poverty and a heavy burden of disease, and there is little information on specific health
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Ethiopia offers 100% FDI facility to India for healthcare
Land will be offered for Indian entrepreneurs besides other incentives and tax facilities Ethiopia offered 100 per cent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) facility to India for setting up hospitals and
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UN says over 13 mln people food insecure in East Africa
The number of food insecure people in the Eastern Africa region has increased from 11.43 million people to 13.73 million people as of March, UN humanitarian agency said Thursday. The UN Office for Coordination