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This report presents EfD Ethiopia/Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia, its members and work during 2011/12. For a free hardcopy, please send an email to: info@efdinitiative.org

The Ethiopian node of the Environment for Development initiative, EfD Ethiopia, is based at:

Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia (EEPFE)

 Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI)

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Coordinator: Dr Alemu Mekonnen

Osteoporotic fractures are devastating public health problems due to significant morbidity, mortality, and the socioeconomic burden. In Ethiopia, the weight of such fractures is often underestimated due to lack of epidemiological data. The objective of this study was to assess the magnitude and pattern of osteoporotic fractures among adults admitted to zonal hospitals in Tigrai, North Ethiopia.

This paper concerns the patterns of food crop choice in a multicropping setting, in which production risk considerations and rainfall uncertainty are likely to be critical factors.

So far Africa has benefited little from climate finance as compared to other continents with emerging economies. Climate projects are distributed unevenly across regions as well as among developing countries. This is partly due to lack of trained manpower in some of these countries and too restrictive criteria of most of the climate fund projects and programs that are designed to the disadvantage of Africa.

This paper assesses the impact of a landcertification program in Ethiopia on the level of interpersonal and institutional trust among households in the Amhara region. The landcertification program is designed to enhance landtenure security of farmers, by maintaining (egalitarian) status quo land distribution and equity concerns.