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At the same time, female-led instruction at the university level is extremely low at only 11 percent. To support women in agriculture under the Feed the Future initiative, we empower women in decision-making about production, the use of resources like land, water, or capital, and control over income.

We support women in chronically food insecure households by boosting access to improved farming inputs and creating income earning agricultural activities. Promoting the Health and Safety of Women and Girls According to the Ethiopian Demographic and Health Survey in , 30 percent of Ethiopian women do not make decisions on individual and family issues. Instead, their husbands make decisions for them on choices including the option to use birth control methods, and whether to give birth in a health facility or seek the assistance of a trained provider.

Additionally, harmful traditional practices—early marriage and childbearing, female genital mutilation and gender-based violence—all having adverse effects on Ethiopian women. We also provide medical assistance for women and girls suffering from fistula—a birth injury common in very young mothers—and educate communities about the health risks of female genital mutilation. To boost maternal and newborn health, we support primary health care to end preventable child and maternal deaths and teach women about nutrition.

About 6 sector line ministries and 4 regional states have adapted and developed, on gender mainstreaming, gender sensitive budgeting and gender auditing and adaptation of the tools by key ministries and regional states. A number of capacity building trainings have been provided for gender experts and officials, including training of parliamentarians.

The capacity building activities were very helpful in enhancing the technical expertise and skills of the government staffs working at all levels that helped sectoral bureaus to better mainstream gender in their plans, programmes and strategies. The performance leveling tool on gender has been validated by all sectors and endorsed by MoWCYA management; implementation has already been started by sectoral ministries.

Moreover, knowledge networks on gender equality and women's empowerment have been strengthened at federal and regional levels. Following the assessment, a report was produced that allowed for a capacity development response. UNDP has also supported the conduct of gap assessment in 21 key ministries on the generation and use of sex disaggregated data. Offering basic education is one effective way of providing girls with power, autonomy and independence to make genuine choices over the lives, their families and their community.

These top ten facts about girls DOI: For every hundred boys in secondary school, there are only seventy-seven girls. Only 17 percent of women are literate, whereas 42 percent of men can read and write. Females only make up 27 percent of the university population, a quarter of whom will drop out before graduation. Primary school attendance rates have risen from The primary school enrollment rate of girls has increased from 21 to 49 percent in the last two decades.

The education of girls contributes to higher economic activity as Ethiopian women are more likely to give back to their communities. The education of girls results in lower infant mortality and morbidity, lower fertility rates and the attainment of longer life expectancy for both men and women.

There is a greater likelihood that the children of educated girls will become educated themselves. Receiving an education means girls can avoid long work hours and work towards a better future, instilling self-empowerment. An educated girl in Ethiopia is more likely to avoid early marriage, seek healthcare and become a more independent and well-off individual. With this independence, a girl will become more involved in her community and prepared for future decision-making.

She will also have an increased chance of being accepted into a higher-paying job and could then reinvest percent of her wages back into her family and community, aiding in breaking the cycle of poverty. The organization aims to give adolescent girls in developing countries an equal chance for education, health, social and economic opportunities and a life free from violence. Since refugee families in Ethiopia are not allowed to work, girls are oftentimes unable to attend school as families cannot afford the costs of school uniforms and books.

With the help of Girl Up, the United Nations is working to make sure that Somali refugee girls in Ethiopia are healthy, safe and educated. The largest proportion of farmers live below the poverty line and few and poorly provided social amenities are available in rural areas. Sectoral-level data shows that the farmers in Ethiopia use little modern inputs, output per hectare is low, and land holdings have been increasingly fragmented.

Although fertilizer is the most widely used modern input, application rates are abysmally low. Use of improved seeds and pesticides is almost nonexistent. Among a group of comparable countries Ethiopian farmers performed the poorest. If Ethiopian farmers were to achieve the average yield levels reported in these countries it would at least be self-sufficient in cereals production.

This study used panel data to analyze the sources of output growth and technical efficiency among subsistence farmers in Ethiopia. A stochastic frontier analysis SFA was used to assess the variation in technical efficiency in addition to accounting for the sources of growth in agricultural output.

This book attempts to explain the failure of Ethiopia's land reform and the problem of transformation of the peasantry through a holistic approach, by pulling together numerous factors and themes. The book first defines a comprehensive land reform as a process that influences the deprived peasant masses economically and politically. It then attempts to establish the relevance of such a process to the transformation of the peasant mode of production to a surplus producing exchange economy and consequently, to socioeconomic development of less developed countries.

Ethiopia: Failure of Land Reform and Agricultural Crisis also attempts to identify specific attributes of successful democratization processes comprehensive land reforms on the basis of which it evaluates and explains the failure of the Ethiopian land reform. Suitable for research, this book should appeal to scholars and students of development in general and African political economy and African revolutions in particular.

Agricultural droughts affect whole societies, leading to higher food costs, threatened economies, and even famine. In order to mitigate such effects, researchers must first be able to monitor them, and then predict them; however no book currently focuses on accurate monitoring or prediction of these devastating kinds of droughts. To fill this void, the editors of Monitoring and Predicting Agricultural Drought have assembled a team of expert contributors from all continents to make a global study, describing biometeorological models and monitoring methods for agricultural droughts.

These models and methods note the relationships between precipitation, soil moisture, and crop yields, using data gathered from conventional and remote sensing techniques.

The coverage of the book includes probabilistic models and techniques used in America, Europe and the former USSR, Africa, Asia, and Australia, and it concludes with coverage of climate change and resultant shifts in agricultural productivity, drought early warning systems, and famine mitigation.

This will be an essential collection for those who must advise governments or international organizations on the current scope, likelihood, and impact of agricultural droughts. Sponsored by the World Meterological Organization. Considerable poverty and food insecurity in Ethiopia, combined with the overwhelming majority of Ethiopians who depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, make agricultural transformation a crucial development goal for the country.

One promising improvement is to increase production of teff, the calorie- and nutrient-rich but low-yielding staple. Skip to content. Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia. Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia Book Review:. Ethiopia s agrifood system Past trends present challenges and future scenarios. Author : Dorosh, Paul A. Ethiopia s agrifood system Past trends present challenges and future scenarios Book Review:. Challenges and Prospects of Agricultural Production and Productivity. Agriculture in Ethiopia.

Agriculture in Ethiopia Book Review:. Agricultural Taxation in Ethiopia. Agricultural Taxation in Ethiopia Book Review:. The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy. Author : Ethiopia. Author : Atkeyelsh G. This includes stunning interpretations of Ethiopia's national epic, Kibre Negest; different ways in which Oromos construct their own narratives; and the clash of perspectives among protagonists in the political crisis, between the ruling party and the main opposition party at that time.

The book also includes important political documents such as Levine's first-hand account of the December coup; his testimony for the U. Senate Subcommittee on Africa concerning the Derg; and his thoughtful plea regarding the Eritrean referendum. The book climaxes with broad interpretive sketches, including the renowned essay on Ethiopia and Japan in comparative civilizational perspective, and Levine's revised interpretation of the evolution of Ethiopia as a historic multi-ethnic society.

In addition to historic and cultural forays, Interpreting Ethiopia includes a number of chapters devoted to current domestic challenges, such as the problem of chronic hunger and overpopulation; the problems posed by the exponential growth of an Ethiopian Diaspora after ; and the obstacles and opportunities faced by Ethiopians in their effort to create a national public.

Reviews: Professor Levine's essays savor like a fine cup of Ethiopian coffee. It is a blend of the earthy taste of ethnography, the subtle aroma of social theory, and the spices o. Combining sociological, political and philosophical analysis, it attempts to explain where things went wrong in the country's post colonial development and how instead of moving forward, the country has stagnated in the past.

Contributing to the growing literature on the country's cultural diversity, this book offers special emphasis on the contemporary dynamics of intra- and intergroup boundary formation and alteration. It also adds to the more general literature on identity change, boundary transgression of individuals and groups, and cultural contact and change.

With contributions from experienced Ethiopian and international scholars, the book offers perspectives on territorial, ethnic, class, caste, gender, and age related boundaries in different parts of the country.

Among the countries of Africa it has a high profile yet is poorly known. How- ever all cliches contain within them a kernel of truth, and occlude much more. Today's Ethiopia and its painfully liberated sister state of Eritrea are largely obscured by these mythical views and a secondary literature that is partial or propagandist. Moreover there have been few attempts to offer readers a comprehensive overview of the country's recent history, politics and culture that goes beyond the usual guidebook fare.

Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia seeks to do just that, presenting a measured, detailed and systematic analysis of the main features of this unique country, now building on the foundations of a magical and tumultuous past as it struggles to emerge in the modern world on its own terms.

The primary objective of this book is to examine the rise and the fall of the federation in the nght of present-day realities. This central theme is placed in context by a reconstruction of Eritrean political organizations during the crucial postwar years. The work includes a short account of the war between Eritrean nationalist forces and the Ethiopian government, which led up to the emergence of Eritrea as a sovereign state. Based primarily on archival sources at the Public Record Office in London, Eritrea and Ethiopia argues that no other group in the region has repeatedly succeeded in shaping its political destiny as the Tigreans of Eritrea have.

Negash maintains that the federation was abolished by Eritrean social and political forces rather than by Ethiopia.