Enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa : An exploration into alternative investment options
Author
Abstract
Suggested Citation
Download full text from publisher
Other versions of this item:
- Headey, Derek D. & Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum & You, Liangzhi, 2012. "Enhancing resilience in the Horn of Africa: An exploration into alternative investment options," ESSP working papers 48, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
References listed on IDEAS
- Travis J. Lybbert & Christopher B. Barrett & Solomon Desta & D. Layne Coppock, 2004.
"Stochastic wealth dynamics and risk management among a poor population,"
Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 114(498), pages 750-777, October.
- Lybbert, Travis J. & Barrett, Christopher B. & Desta, Solomon & Coppock, D. Layne, 2002. "Stochastic Wealth Dynamics And Risk Management Among A Poor Population," Working Papers 14736, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management.
- Derek Headey & Dirk Bezemer & Peter B. Hazell, 2010. "Agricultural Employment Trends in Asia and Africa: Too Fast or Too Slow?," The World Bank Research Observer, World Bank, vol. 25(1), pages 57-89, February.
- Jonathan Davies & Richard Bennett, 2007. "Livelihood adaptation to risk: Constraints and opportunities for pastoral development in Ethiopia's Afar region," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(3), pages 490-511.
- Peter D. Little & Kevin Smith & Barbara A. Cellarius & D. Layne Coppock & Christopher Barrett, 2001. "Avoiding Disaster: Diversification and Risk Management among East African Herders," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 32(3), pages 401-433, June.
- Fanaye Tadesse & Headey, Derek, 2011.
"Urbanization and Fertility Rates in Ethiopia,"
Ethiopian Journal of Economics, Ethiopian Economics Association, vol. 19(2), November.
- Tadesse, Fanaye & Headey, Derek D., 2012. "Urbanization and fertility rates in Ethiopia:," ESSP working papers 35, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
- Haggblade, Steven & Hazell, Peter B. R. & Reardon, Thomas Anthony (ed.), 2007. "Transforming the rural nonfarm economy: Opportunities and threats in the developing world," IFPRI books, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), number 978-0-8018-8664-5, February.
Citations
Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
Cited by:
- von Grebmer, Klaus & Headey, Derek & Bene, Christophe & Haddad, Lawrence & Olofinbiyi, Tolulope & Wiesmann, Doris & Fritschel, Heidi & Yin, Sandra & Yohannes, Yisehac & Foley, Connell & von Oppeln, Co, 2013.
"2013 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hunger: Building resilience to achieve food and nutrition security,"
IFPRI books,
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), number 978-0-89629-951-1 edited by von Oppeln, Constanze & Labahn, Marius & Towey, Olive & von Grebmer, Klaus.
- von Grebmer, Klaus & Headey, Derek D. & Olofinbiyi, Tolulope & Wiesmann, Doris & Yin, Sandra & Yohannes, Yisehac & Foley, Connell & von Oppeln, Constanze & Iseli, Bettina & Béné, Christophe & Haddad, , 2013. "2013 Global hunger index : The challenge of hunger : Building resilience to achieve food and nutrition security:," Issue briefs 79, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
- von Grebmer, Klaus & Headey, Derek & Bene, Christophe & Haddad, Lawrence & Olofinbiyi, Tolulope & Wiesmann, Doris & Fritschel, Heidi & Yin, Sandra & Yohannes, Yisehac & Foley, Connell & von Oppeln, Co, 2013. "2013 Global Hunger Index: The challenge of hunger: Building resilience to achieve food and nutrition security," Issue briefs 9780896298330, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
- von Grebmer, Klaus & Headey, Derek & Bene, Christophe & Haddad, Lawrence & Olofinbiyi, Tolulope & Wiesmann, Doris & Fritschel, Heidi & Yin, Sandra & Yohannes, Yisehac & Foley, Connell & von Oppeln, Co, 2013. "Indice globale della fame: La sfida della fame 2013: Sviluppare la resilienza delle comunita per la sicurezza alimentare e nutrizionale," IFPRI books, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), number 978-0-89629-954-2 edited by von Oppeln, Constanze & Labahn, Marius & Towey, Olive & von Grebmer, Klaus, February.
- Calderone, Margherita & Headey, Derek D. & Maystadt, Jean-François, 2014. "Resilience to climate-induced conflict in the Horn of Africa," IFPRI book chapters, in: Fan, Shenggen & Pandya-Lorch, Rajul & Yosef, Sivan (ed.), 2013 Global Food Policy Report, chapter 8, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
- Duguma, Mesay Kebede & Brüntrup, Michael & Tsegai, Daniel, 2017. "Policy options for improving drought resilience and its implication for food security: the cases of Ethiopia and Kenya," IDOS Studies, German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), volume 98, number 98, March.
- von Grebmer, Klaus & Headey, Derek & Bene, Christophe & Haddad, Lawrence & Olofinbiyi, Tolulope & Wiesmann, Doris & Fritschel, Heidi & Yin, Sandra & Yohannes, Yisehac & Foley, Connell & von Oppeln, Co, 2013.
"2013 Welthunger-Index: Herausforderung Hunger: Widerstandsfahigkeit starken Ernahrung sichern,"
IFPRI books,
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), number 978-0-89629-835-4 edited by von Oppeln, Constanze & Labahn, Marius & Towey, Olive & von Grebmer, Klaus.
- von Grebmer, Klaus & Headey, Derek D. & Olofinbiyi, Tolulope & Wiesmann, Doris & Yin, Sandra & Yohannes, Yisehac & Foley, Connell & von Oppeln, Constanze & Iseli, Bettina & Béné, Christophe & Haddad, , 2013. "2013 Welthunger-Index : Herausforderung Hunger : Widerstandsfähigkeit stärken Ernährung sichern:," Issue briefs 79 DE, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
- International Food Policy Research Institute, 2013. "Global Hunger Index 2013 - The Challenge of Hunger: Building Resilience to Achieve Food and Nutrition Security," Working Papers id:5533, eSocialSciences.
- Maystadt, Jean-Francois & Ecker, Olivier & Mabiso, Athur, 2013. "Extreme weather and civil war in Somalia: Does drought fuel conflict through livestock price shocks?," IFPRI discussion papers 1243, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
- repec:lic:licosd:32613 is not listed on IDEAS
- Fan, Shenggen & Pandya-Lorch, Rajul & Yosef, Sivan, 2014. "Introduction [In Resilience for food and nutrition security]," IFPRI book chapters, in: Fan, Shenggen & Pandya-Lorch, Rajul & Yosef, Sivan (ed.), 2013 Global Food Policy Report, chapter 1, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Most related items
These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.- Headey, Derek & Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum & You, Liangzhi, 2014. "Diversification and Development in Pastoralist Ethiopia," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 200-213.
- Marc F. Bellemare & Christopher B. Barrett, 2006.
"An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia,"
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 88(2), pages 324-337.
- Bellemare, Marc F. & Barrett, Christopher B., 2005. "An Ordered Tobit Model of Market Participation: Evidence from Kenya and Ethiopia," Working Papers 14748, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management.
- Ruhangawebare, Godfrey Kalemera, 2010. "Factors Affecting The Level Of Commercialization Among Cattle Keepers In The Pastoral Areas Of Uganda," Research Theses 117797, Collaborative Masters Program in Agricultural and Applied Economics.
- Robinson, Lance W. & Ericksen, Polly J. & Chesterman, Sabrina & Worden, Jeffrey S., 2015. "Sustainable intensification in drylands: What resilience and vulnerability can tell us," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 135(C), pages 133-140.
- Carolyn Lesorogol & Gina Chowa & David Ansong, 2013. "The Roles of Livestock Inheritance and Formal Education in Intergenerational Wealth Transmission among Pastoralists in Samburu District, Kenya," Journal of Developing Societies, , vol. 29(2), pages 213-232, June.
- Barnett, Barry J. & Barrett, Christopher B. & Skees, Jerry R., 2008. "Poverty Traps and Index-Based Risk Transfer Products," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 36(10), pages 1766-1785, October.
- Luseno, Winnie K. & McPeak, John G. & Barrett, Christopher B. & Little, Peter D. & Gebru, Getachew, 2003. "Assessing the Value of Climate Forecast Information for Pastoralists: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 31(9), pages 1477-1494, September.
- Bellemare, Marc F. & Barrett, Christopher B. & Osterloh, Sharon M., 2005. "Household-Level Livestock Marketing Behavior Among Northern Kenyan and Southern Ethiopian Pastoralists," Working Papers 14749, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management.
- Almeida, Alexandre N. & Bravo-Ureta, Boris E., 2019. "Agricultural productivity, shadow wages and off-farm labor decisions in Nicaragua," Economic Systems, Elsevier, vol. 43(1), pages 99-110.
- Derek Headey & David Stifel & Liangzhi You & Zhe Guo, 2018.
"Remoteness, urbanization, and child nutrition in sub‐Saharan Africa,"
Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 49(6), pages 765-775, November.
- Headey, Derek D. & Stifel, David & You, Liangzhi & Guo, Zhe, 2017. "Remoteness, urbanization and child nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa:," IFPRI discussion papers 1694, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
- Stifel, D. & Headey, D. & You, L. & Guo, Z., 2018. "Remoteness, Urbanization and Child Nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa," 2018 Conference, July 28-August 2, 2018, Vancouver, British Columbia 277147, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
- Janz, Teresa & Augsburg, Britta & Gassmann, Franziska & Nimeh, Zina, 2023.
"Leaving no one behind: Urban poverty traps in Sub-Saharan Africa,"
World Development, Elsevier, vol. 172(C).
- Janz, Teresa & Augsburg, B. & Gassmann, Franziska & Nimeh, Zina, 2022. "Leaving no one behind: Urban poverty traps in Sub-Saharan Africa," MERIT Working Papers 2022-041, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
- Hussein, K. & Suttie, D., 2016. "IFAD RESEARCH SERIES 5 - Rural-urban linkages and food systems in sub-Saharan Africa: the rural dimension," IFAD Research Series 280043, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
- Anubhab Gupta & Heng Zhu & Miki Khanh Doan & Aleksandr Michuda & Binoy Majumder, 2021. "Economic Impacts of the COVID−19 Lockdown in a Remittance‐Dependent Region," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 103(2), pages 466-485, March.
- Naschold, Felix, 2012.
"“The Poor Stay Poor”: Household Asset Poverty Traps in Rural Semi-Arid India,"
World Development, Elsevier, vol. 40(10), pages 2033-2043.
- Naschold, Felix, 2009. "“Poor stays poor” - Household asset poverty traps in rural semi-arid India," 2009 Annual Meeting, July 26-28, 2009, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 49396, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
- Jana Fritzsch, 2012. "Is non-farm income diversification a feasible option for small-scale farmers? An assessment using a composite fuzzy indicator," Post-Communist Economies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(3), pages 403-417, February.
- Dillon, Andrew & Friedman, Jed & Serneels, Pieter, 2014.
"Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity: Experimental Evidence from Malaria Testing and Treatment among Nigerian Sugarcane Cutters,"
IZA Discussion Papers
8074, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Andrew Dillon & Jed Friedman & Pieter Serneels, 2014. "Health information, treatment, and worker productivity: Experimental evidence from malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters," Working Paper series, University of East Anglia, Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS) 14-05, School of Economics, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK..
- Andrew Dillon & Jed Friedman & Pieter Serneels, 2014. "Health information, treatment, and worker productivity: Experimental evidence from malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters," CSAE Working Paper Series 2014-13, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
- Dillon, Andrew & Friedman, Jed & Serneels, Pieter, 2014. "Health information, treatment, and worker productivity : experimental evidence from malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters," Policy Research Working Paper Series 7120, The World Bank.
- Diao, Xinshen & Magalhaes, Eduardo & Silver, Jed, 2019. "Cities and rural transformation: A spatial analysis of rural livelihoods in Ghana," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 121(C), pages 141-157.
- Clare Balboni & Oriana Bandiera & Robin Burgess & Maitreesh Ghatak & Anton Heil, 2023.
"Why Do People Stay Poor?,"
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 137(2), pages 785-844.
- Bandiera, Oriana & Ghatak, Maitreesh & Balboni, Clare & Heil, Anton, 2020. "Why do people stay poor?," CEPR Discussion Papers 14534, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
- Baboni, Clare & Bandiera, Oriana & Burgess, Robin & Ghatak, Maitreesh & Heil, Anton, 2022. "Why do people stay poor?," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 111839, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
- Clare A. Balboni & Oriana Bandiera & Robin Burgess & Maitreesh Ghatak & Anton Heil, 2021. "Why do people stay poor?," NBER Working Papers 29340, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Clare Balboni & Oriana Bandiera & Robin Burgess & Maitreesh Ghatak & Anton Heil, 2020. "Why Do People Stay Poor?," STICERD - Economic Organisation and Public Policy Discussion Papers Series 067, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, LSE.
- Thornton, P.K. & BurnSilver, S.B. & Boone, R.B. & Galvin, K.A., 2006. "Modelling the impacts of group ranch subdivision on agro-pastoral households in Kajiado, Kenya," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 87(3), pages 331-356, March.
- Vincent, Ng’eno & Korir, M.K. & Nyangweso, P.M. & Kipsat, Mary J. & Lagat, B.K., 2010. "Pastoralists Non‐Responsiveness To Livestock Markets In East Pokot, Kenya," 2010 AAAE Third Conference/AEASA 48th Conference, September 19-23, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa 97090, African Association of Agricultural Economists (AAAE).
More about this item
Keywords
Development strategies; Pastoralism; Resilience;All these keywords.
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2012-06-05 (Africa)
Statistics
Access and download statisticsCorrections
All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:fpr:ifprid:1176. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.
If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.
If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .
If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.
For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: the person in charge (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ifprius.html .
Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.