Teff is an important crop for smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. Improved management practices are needed to increase teff productivity and decrease production costs. Here, we used a split–split plot design evaluate the impacts of different tillage, sowing, soil compaction practices, their combinations, on agronomic performance, weed population, lodging, cost at Aba Gerima watershed northwestern ...

Background: Trachoma is slated for global elimination as a public health problem by 2020. Ethiopia carries 1/3rd of the global burden of trachoma. This paper aims to explore whether Ethiopia is on track to achieve the

it is widely agreed that small scale enterprises (sses) used to play a crucial role in achieving the industrial and economic development. though sses play indispensable economic role, studies are limited to analyze the external factors that affect the growth of sses independently. therefore, the objective of this paper is to examine the effect of external firm factors influencing small scale ma...

Acknowledgements: The authors would like to thank John Hoddinott, Martin Ravallion and Norbert Schady as well as seminar participants at the Chronic Poverty Conference at Manchester University for useful comments which helped improve earlier versions of this paper. Nonetheless, the findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed are entirely those of the authors, and they do not necessaril...

What keeps some people persistently poor, even in the context of relative high growth? In this paper, we explore this question using a 15-year longitudinal data set from Ethiopia. We compare the findings of an empirical growth model with those derived from a model of the determinants of chronic poverty. We ask whether the chronically poor are simply not benefiting in the same way from the same ...

Small business and entrepreneurship play critical role in stimulating economic activity, creating jobs, alleviating poverty and uplift living standards in Africa. It is widely accepted that the Micro and Small Enterprise (MSE) sectors have the potential to provide a livelihood for a considerably large number of poor rural and urban women in Ethiopia. Women account for the larger share of the in...

Long-term energy demand forecasting is crucial for any country, in particular developing countries with rapid developments of needs. This study focuses on Ethiopia, a country highly increasing resulting mainly from the currently low share electricity access, development industrial parks, extensive expansion railway network, irrigation schemes agriculture, new cement and sugar factories, housing...

BACKGROUND Heavy burden of child injuries and lack of policy response in Ethiopia call for an improved understanding of the situation and development of action plans from multiple governmental agencies and stakeholders. METHODS A consortium of international and Ethiopian researchers and stakeholders used extensive literature review and mixed analytical methods to estimate and project the burd...

In 1993, after 6 years of absence, cholera re-emerged in the Horn of Africa. Following its introduction to Djibouti, the disease spread to the central and southern areas of Ethiopia reaching Somalia in 1994. Cholera outbreaks persisted in Ethiopia with a recrudescence of cases in 1998. Twenty-two Vibrio cholerae O1 strains, selected to represent the 1998 history of cholera in Ethiopia, were cha...

The aloes of Ethiopia and Eritrea are moderately diverse. Edwards et al (1997) recognised 38 species, including Aloe vituensis which has yet to be located north of Ethiopia’s border with Kenya, so it is not, as yet, an Ethiopian Aloe. The most recent complete survey of aloes in Ethiopia and Eritrea (Sebsebe Demissew & Nordal, 2010) recognised 46 species, again including A. vituensis. Since that...