Famine and Food Security in Ethiopia
Title | Famine and Food Security in Ethiopia PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Webb |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN |
Aims to correct the widely held but questionable view that the Ethiopian famine was and is an inevitable consequence of environmental, social and cultural factors. The book is based on extensive original field research in Ethiopia, involving detailed surveys of over 500 families.
Famine in Ethiopia
Title | Famine in Ethiopia PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Webb |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 166 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0896290956 |
Concepts 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.
COVID-19 and food security in Ethiopia: Do social protection programs protect?
Title | COVID-19 and food security in Ethiopia: Do social protection programs protect? PDF eBook |
Author | Abay, Kibrom A. |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 2020-11-11 |
Genre | Political Science |
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We assess the impact of Ethiopia’s flagship social protection program, the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on the adverse impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food and nutrition security of households, mothers, and children. We use both pre-pandemic in-person household survey data and a post-pandemic phone survey. Two thirds of our respondents reported that their incomes had fallen after the pandemic began and almost half reported that their ability to satisfy their food needs had worsened. Employing a household fixed effects difference-in-difference approach, we find that the household food insecurity increased by 11.7 percentage points and the size of the food gap by 0.47 months in the aftermath of the onset of the pandemic. Participation in the PSNP offsets virtually all of this adverse change; the likelihood of becoming food insecure increased by only 2.4 percentage points for PSNP households and the duration of the food gap increased by only 0.13 months. The protective role of PSNP is greater for poorer households and those living in remote areas. Results are robust to definitions of PSNP participation, different estimators and how we account for the non-randomness of mobile phone ownership. PSNP households were less likely to reduce expenditures on health and education by 7.7 percentage points and were less likely to reduce expenditures on agricultural inputs by 13 percentage points. By contrast, mothers’ and children’s diets changed little, despite some changes in the composition of diets with consumption of animal source foods declining significantly.
Ethiopia and Food Security
Title | Ethiopia and Food Security PDF eBook |
Author | Logan Cochrane |
Publisher | |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2021-09-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781599072791 |
Food Security and Famine in Ethiopia
Title | Food Security and Famine in Ethiopia PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Webb |
Publisher | Jacaranda |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1994-02-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781852933043 |
Food Security, Safety Nets and Social Protection in Ethiopia
Title | Food Security, Safety Nets and Social Protection in Ethiopia PDF eBook |
Author | Dessalegn Rahmato |
Publisher | African Books Collective |
Pages | 626 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9994450476 |
"This book, which examines Ethiopia's food security strategy and the safety net program from different approaches and perspectives in the context of the development of a social protection policy, is a continuation of that tradition ... Ethiopia's safety net program is one of the largest and most influential social protection schemes in Africa and, as noted by several authors in this volume, provides important lessons beyond the Ethiopian context."--Back cover.
Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid
Title | Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Gill |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2010-07-08 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0191614319 |
The terrible 1984 famine in Ethiopia focused the world's attention on the country and the issue of aid as never before. Anyone over the age of 30 remembers something of the events - if not the original TV pictures, then Band Aid and Live Aid, Geldof and Bono. Peter Gill was the first journalist to reach the epicentre of the famine and one of the TV reporters who brought the tragedy to light. This book is the story of what happened to Ethiopia in the 25 years following Live Aid: the place, the people, the westerners who have tried to help, and the wider multinational aid business that has come into being. We saved countless lives in the beginning and continued to save them now, but have we done much else to transform the lives of Ethiopia's poor and set them on a 'development' course that will enable the country to do without us?