Yezihalem Tesfa Dagnaw, Instructor and Assistant Researcher, St. Mary’s University College P.O.Box 16229 Addis Ababa Ethiopia [email protected] Abstract Why we Ethiopians are celebrated for unforgettable images of chronically malnourished children with large skeletal heads clinging to their mothers dried up breasts? Why we are still forced to seek for food aid when there is ample local...

Does Relative Income Matter for the Very Poor? Evidence from Rural Ethiopia We studied whether relative income has an impact on subjective well-being among extremely poor people. Contrary to the findings in developed countries, where relative income has shown a significant and negative impact on subjective well-being, we cannot reject the hypothesis that relative income has no impact on subject...

In this edition of Focus on Horn of Africa , Hawd radio, Dr. Jon Abbink talked about religion's development in Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, as in other parts of Africa, relations between Christians and Muslims show a new dynamic under the impact of both state policies and global connections. Religious identities are becoming more dominant as people's primary public identity, and more ideological in t...

Copyright: © 2017 Pal M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Leptospirosis: An Infectious Emerging Waterborne Zoonosis of Global Significance Mahendra Pal1* and Angesom Hadush2 1Ex-Professor...

The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa and is one of the most biologically and culturally diverse countries on the continent. With a population of about 92 million, Ethiopia is the second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite being one of the poorest countries, with a per capita income of US$454 (substantially lower than the regi...

The level of virus contamination on sweetpotato germplasm resources in Ethiopia was determined. Sweetpotato (Ipomea batatus) accessions in fields at Awassa and Wondo Genet Research Stations had 85% typical virus symptoms with up to 100% incidence. The associated viruses were identified by Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Accordingly, out of 57 accessions serologically tested from Awas...

www.ethnobotanyjournal.org/vol10/i1547-3465-10-305.pdf Ethnobotany Research & Applications 10:305-320 (2012) Girmay Zenebe, Hawassa University, Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, School of Forestry, P. O. Box 128, Shahemene, ETHIOPIA. [email protected] Mohammed Zerihun, Forum for Social Studies, Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA. [email protected] Zewdie Solomon, Hawassa Un...

Introduction Grass pea (Lathyrus sativus) is one of the important food legumes in countries like Bangladesh, India, and Ethiopia. It has desirable agronomic characteristics, notably the ability to resist adverse climatic conditions. Nutritionally it is tasty and protein-rich. However over consumption can cause an upper motor neuron disease known as neurolathyrism, an irreversible paraparesis of...

M Woldie, B Admassu,* G Tolu Feyissa, T Alaro, K Mitchell, S Mayhew, M McKee, D Balabanova. Department of Health Economics, Management and Policy, Faculty of Public Health, Jimma University, Ethiopia; Department of Population and Family Health, Faculty of Public Health, Jimma University, Ethiopia; Department of Health Education and Behaviour sciences, Faculty of Public Health, Jimma University,...

Background: Salmonellosis and shigellosis are global human health problems, especially in developing countries such as Ethiopia, where substandard hygiene and unsafe water supplies prevail which is aggravated by multidrug resistance. We determined the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of Salmonella and Shigella isolates among diarrheic patients. Which helps in disease managem...