Ethiopia
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A recent World Bank study investigates the impact of land reform on the fertility outcomes of households in rural Ethiopia. In the past, public policies and customary tenure created a situation where Ethiopian households could influence their usufruct rights to land via a demographic expansion of…
By: Aaron Maasho
Date: February 22nd 2016
Source: Mail Online / Reuters
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Ethiopia continues to crack down on demonstrators in its vast Oromiya region some four months after protests began over plans to develop an economic zone on what is now farmland around the…
By: Paola Totaro
Date: March 15th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
WASHINGTON, March 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Uganda's constitution of 1995 is known worldwide for pioneering and gender-sensitive provisions to protect women and their rights.
However the reality on the ground,…
By: Tom Burgis
Date: March 1st 2016
Source: Financial Times
Across the globe, investors are betting billions on land. Tom Burgis reports from Ethiopia, where a tycoon has planted a vast rice farm in soils tainted by years of conflict.
1, THE HARVEST
November’s harvest, covering only a portion of…
By: WIC
Date: March 22nd 2016
Source: Walta Info
Addis Ababa, March 22, 2016 (WIC) – The Ethiopian Agriculture Investment and Land Administration Agency (EAILAA) has given up offering land for large scale agricultural investments for an unspecified time.
The agency made the decision until problems…
Date: 14 avril 2016
Source: Slate Afrique
Par Fiona Hesselden
L'une des solutions: avoir recours aux communautés locales pour assurer l’avenir du café sauvage.
Le café est consommé chaque jour par des millions de personnes. Seconde marchandise la plus échangée au monde, il nous vient d’Éthiopie,…
By: Hasabe
Date: April 21st 2016
Source: New Business Ethiopia
The 2030 Agenda (Sustainable Development Goals) cannot be achieved without the introduction of modern land management systems accompanied by good land governance, Ethiopian President said.
President Mulatu Teshome made the remark in…
By: Duncan Gromko
Date: May 2nd 2016
Source: The Guardian
Ethiopia has confirmed its commitment to restore its degraded lands to improve food security and biodiversity. Now, it’s looking to the private sector for support.
Ethiopia is in the midst of the worst drought in 50 years. Famine and…
By: Girmachew Gashaw
Date: August 5th 2016
Source: AllAfrica.com / Ethiopian Herald
OPINION
Farmers summit towards solving landlessness
Anxiabe Zenebe, 28, lives at rural town in Shewarobit district. Due to unknown reason, her husband has not lived with her for years. Thus, helping and raising her…
Date: 10 aout 2016
Source: L'Humanité
Par Rosa Moussaoui
La répression des manifestations pacifiques de ces derniers jours a fait près de cent morts. En cause : les conflits fonciers et les griefs politiques à l’égard des Tigréens qui s’emparent du pouvoir.
La politique d’…
By: Sally Hayden
Date: August 11th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Mass street protests that saw dozens of people shot by Ethiopian security forces over the weekend could spill into civil war if the government fails to reform land use policies, a…
By Sally Hayden
Date: August 24th 2016
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ethiopian silver medalist Feyisa Lilesa, who did not return home after staging a protest against his government at the Rio Olympics, said on Thursday he feared for his life if he went…