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
Ethiopia
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Consequences of human land use for an Afro-alpine ecological community in Ethiopia
The Guassa area of Menz in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia is an Afro-alpine ecological community with an indigenous resource management system. The local community harvest different resources including
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Coca-Cola $3.5m drive to advance clean water access
Coca-Cola has pledged to commit $3.5m to help accelerate the development of sustainable water access in drought-hit parts of Africa. In partnership with the Coca-Cola Africa Foundation, the global soft
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Hillary lauds India’s year without polio
WASHINGTON, 15 JUNE: US secretary of state Hillary Clinton congratulated India on having a full year without a single polio case and said the country, along with Ethiopia, is exemplary in stepping up and
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Progress made on reducing child mortality
Pneumonia and diarrhea are the two leading causes of infant mortality, together accounting for nearly one-third of all deaths among children under 5 around the world. This amounts to more than 2 million
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Poverty project opens to scrutiny
Panel set to reshape evaluation of Millennium Villages research after partial retraction of health claims.
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Are food insecure smallholder households making changes in their farming practices? Evidence from East Africa
We explore the relationship between farming practice changes made by households coping with the huge demographic, economic, and ecological changes they have seen in the last 10 years and household food
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Obama touts $3bn in pledges to help feed Africa
President Barack Obama on Friday said the United States has a “moral imperative” to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition in Africa despite shrinking national budgets around the world.
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Setting course towards water, sanitation for all
Ahead of the World Bank's Spring Meetings here this week, government ministers from almost 40 developing countries are meeting with UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, UK International Development
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Accelerating reductions in undernutrition: what can nutrition governance tell us?
In order to accelerate progress on undernutrition reduction we need to understand how the governance of nutrition programmes leads to successful outcomes. Based on evidence from six countries: Bangladesh,
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Accounting for water quality in monitoring access to safe drinking-water as part of the Millennium Development Goals: lessons from five countries
The objective of the study was to determine how data on water source quality affect assessments of progress towards the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target on access to safe drinking-water.