Famine in Ethiopia: Policy Implications of Coping Failure at National and Household LevelsConcepts and research approach; A record of drought and famine in Ethiopia; Household responses to drought and famine; Agricultural constraints: conflict, policy, and drought; Prices and markets during famine; Public intervention during famine. |
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2.05 Ethiopian birr activities Addis Ababa Adele Keke agricultural analysis animals areas Arssi assets average Beke Pond Borana capita cash-for-food central market Central Statistics Authority cereal price cereal production consumption costs crisis crop crossbreeds Debre Berhan Debre Markos Dessie Dinki distribution Doma drought effects enset Ethiopia Ethiopian birr farm farmers Figure food aid food security food wage food-for-work Gabbra Gara Godo Gojjam Gondar grain Gryseels Hararghe highlands IFAD impact improved income tercile interventions kilograms Korodegaga labor Lutheran World Federation maize major NGOs nutritional output oxen participants payments percent of households percent of respondents percent of sample plow poor poorest households programs purchase rainfall Redd Barna regions Rehabilitation Commission Relief and Rehabilitation Report Research response rural sample households Shewa Sidamo smallholder sorghum strategy survey sites Table teff Tigray UNICEF upper tercile villages vulnerable wealthier households wheat Wolayta Wollo World Food Programme yields
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