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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    July, 2010
    Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Cameroon, Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Jordan, Italy, Netherlands

    Land Tenure Journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access flagship journal of the Climate, Energy and Tenure Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Land Tenure Journal, launched in early 2010, is a successor of the Land Reform, Land Settlement and Co-operatives, which was published between 1964 and 2009. Land Tenure Journal is a medium for the dissemination of quality information and diversified views on land and natural resources tenure. It aims to be a leading publication in the areas of land tenure, land policy and land reform.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2010
    Ethiopia, Italy, Benin, Madagascar, Sri Lanka

    As water becomes scarcer in many countries, governments increasingly have to deal with the considerable challenges of water management. Sound information on water vailability and use is key to shaping water policies that aim to provide equitable and sustainable use of increasingly scarce water resources. Accurate information on agricultural water withdrawal is particularly important to planners and decision-makers involved in water management, as agriculture represents the largest water us er in many countries, representing about 70 percent of total withdrawal worldwide.

  3. Library Resource
    Regulations
    November, 2010
    Ethiopia

    This Regulation of the Council of the Amhara Regional Government establishes zonal administrations in the Regional State of Amhara, which shall carry out their functions on behalf of the regional government. The Regulation sets out duties and powers of these zonal administrations and provides with respect to their organization and administration. The administration shall consist of a) the Council of zonal administration; b) the Chief administrator; and, c) the Office of the administration. The zonal Chief Administrator shall be selected and appointed by the head of the regional government.

  4. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    December, 2010
    Kenya, Ethiopia, Eastern Africa

    This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of

    the series, to the Nile River basin in Northeast Africa. The Nile and its tributaries

    flow though nine countries. The White Nile flows though Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt.

    The Blue Nile starts in Ethiopia. Zaire, Kenya, Tanzanian, Rwanda, and Burundi all

    have tributaries, which flow into the Nile or into Lake Victoria. Unique features are

    Lake Victoria and the Sudd wetland where White Nile loses about half of its flow by

  5. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2010
    Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa

    Land degradation has been identified as severe environmental problem in Ethiopia, especially since the early 1970s. Because there is significant degradation on cultivated lands in Ethiopia, there is potentially high payoff to addressing degradation in the country. In this paper we focus mainly on the effect of short-term benefits to farmers and the explicit considerations of the linkages between natural resource management and market-oriented commodity development on the adoption and scaling out of sustainable land management practices.

  6. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    August, 2010
    Ethiopia, Africa, Eastern Africa

    Ethiopia is home for a large and diverse livestock resources and favourable production environments. The vast majority of the rural population’s livelihood is partly based on livestock production. However, livestock production and productivity and producers’ benefits from livestock production are far below expectations.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    October, 2010
    Ethiopia, Eastern Africa

    The study was conducted in Goma district of Jimma Zone of Ethiopia with the objectives of documenting the reasons why

    farmers in coffee dominant mixed-farming systems of western Ethiopia keep small ruminants, and identifying the

    constraints and opportunities for improvement of this sector. Results are based on diagnostic survey of 160 sample

    households, group discussions and personal observation. The study district was stratified into three groups based on flock

    distribution as: sheep dominating, goat dominating and mixed flock sites.

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