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1 Warotte, G. W.; Kussia, G. T. 2014. Flood-based/spate farming, a practical move towards ensuring food security in the Jarso community, Konso Woreda, Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Regional State. In Erkossa, Teklu; Hagos, Fitsum; Lefore, Nicole. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Workshop on Flood-based Farming for Food Security and Adaption to Climate Change in Ethiopia: Potential and Challenges, Adama, Ethiopia, 30-31 October 2013. Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). pp.149-164.
Farming systems ; Flood irrigation ; Spate irrigation ; Food security ; Food production ; Rain ; Community development ; Households ; Income ; Farmers ; Villages / Ethiopia / Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region [SNNPR] / Konso / Jarso
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI Record No: H046946)
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The study has focused on the assessment of inputs, outputs and the outcomes of the project in terms of food production (availability) and access to food indicators at community and household (HH) levels. The question of project sustainability on outputs and outcomes is also a key issue addressed in this research. The key dependent variables explained are improvement in HH food production and access to food and the sustainability of project outputs. Endowments (availability, quality and size of farmland), rainfall, spate irrigation schemes and their management, supply of modern agricultural inputs, and asset building (livestock, income, food crop) were assessed as factors affecting the key variables. The study found that the spate irrigation beneficiaries of Jarso kebele experienced improvement of HH and community-level food security through modern spate irrigation structures and capacity building activities. Making the current food security status sustainable is identified as a challenge ahead. The chapter concludes with recommendations based on lessons learned from the case study.
2 Tedla, H. A.; Gebremichael, Y. 2015. Some examples of best practices by smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. Book Two. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Best Practice Association (BPA); Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD). 92p.
Smallholders ; Farmers ; Best practices ; Agricultural development ; Climate change adaptation ; Water conservation ; Soil conservation ; Economic aspects ; Tourism ; Scientists ; Ensete ; Livestock ; Farming systems ; Poultry farming ; Terraces ; Cropping patterns ; Desmodium ; Pest control ; Weed control ; Striga ; Biofertilizers ; Poverty ; Labor ; Investment / Ethiopia / Konso / Tigray / Wollo
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H047356)
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3 Feyisa, A. D.; Maertens, M.; de Mey, Y. 2023. Relating risk preferences and risk perceptions over different agricultural risk domains: insights from Ethiopia. World Development, 162:106137. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2022.106137]
Agriculture ; Risk management ; Developing countries ; Policies ; Households ; Livestock ; Econometrics ; Models ; Uncertainty ; Probability analysis / Ethiopia / Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (SNNPR) / Arba Minch Zuriya / Bonke / Chencha / Mirab Abaya / Konso / Derashe
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H051569)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22003278/pdfft?md5=b0df00ecee75822940aee58d3b682ac6&pid=1-s2.0-S0305750X22003278-main.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051569.pdf
https://vlibrary.iwmi.org/pdf/H051569.pdf
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Households in developing countries are exposed to various shocks and risks, which leaves them vulnerable as they typically have limited resources to cope with them. Even though a large body of development literature has focused on the role of risk in rural livelihoods, the focus is often on single sources of risk and taking a unidimensional view on risk preference. This paper explores the diversity in risk perception and risk preferences of Ethiopian households by combining incentivized field experiments with detailed primary household survey data. We disentangle the relationship between risk perception and risk preferences using an innovative combination of time framing and instrumental variable estimation approaches. We find that our respondents are exposed to multiple past shocks and perceive multiple sources of future threats across different agricultural risk domains. Our respondents can be characterized as relatively risk-averse and loss-averse, and they also overweight unlikely extreme outcomes. We find a statistically significant association between the prospect theory risk preferences parameters—risk aversion, loss aversion, and probability weighting—and overall risk perception, domain-specific risk perceptions (except for the personal domain) and the impact dimension of future risk. Our findings make an important contribution to our understanding of farm households’ risk behavior, and can guide prioritizing development efforts to stimulate better informed and well-targeted risk management policy interventions.
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