Food and forests: understanding agriculture and conservation trade-offs in Ethiopia

Submitted by Yitatek Yitbarek on
EfD Authors:
Gebreheiwot, Tagel

Agricultural expansion is the number one driver of the loss of nature and its biodiversity and ecosystem services.1 But efforts to rapidly reduce these losses must recognize the political and economic realities of developing countries striving for economic growth and poverty eradication in the face of climate change. How to balance the competing objectives of agricultural production (SDG 2) and nature conservation (SDG 15) is a critical challenge for sustainable development, and there is growing recognition that success will require transformative change

Policy Brief
Agriculture

Towards Dynamic Assessment of Determinants of Household Vulnerability to Poverty in Tanzania

Submitted by Salvatory Macha on
EfD Authors:
Ngasamiaku, Wilhelm

The paper examines the determinants of vulnerability to expected poverty in Tanzania. Following Landau et al. (2012), Chaudhuri (2000) and Chaudhuri et al. (2003) on estimating Vulnerability to Expected Poverty (VEP), the paper uses a three waves of Tanzania National Panel Survey Data for Tanzania collected between 2008/2009, 2010/2011 and 2012/2013 to find that being employed in agriculture, residing in rural area and household size turns out to be significantly more likely to be poor in the future, at a given consumption level and in all cross-section combination.

Peer Reviewed
Experiments, Health

Households and tree-planting for wood energy production – Do perceptions matter?

Submitted by Salvatory Macha on
EfD Authors:
Kulindwa, Yusuph J.

While forests are a primary source of energy for the majority of Tanzanian households, the forest cover is rapidly declining. The Tanzanian government has introduced a tree-planting campaign strategy, aimed at reducing pressure on natural forests.

Peer Reviewed
Forestry

Demographic considerations and food security in Nigeria

Submitted by Vicentia Quartey on
EfD Authors:
Owoo, Nkechi S.

AbstractClose to 14 million people in Nigeria, including children, are malnourished. I hypothesize that demographic considerations play an important role in food insecurity within Nigerian households. Using data from three waves of the World Bank’s Living Standard Measurement Survey for Nigeria, I illustrate spatial patterns of food security in the country. Using fixed effects regressions, I also show that, at the household level, larger households have worse food security outcomes and are more likely to report being food insecure.

Peer Reviewed
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