Access to sufficient food and nutrients is essential for household welfare, as well as for accomplishing other development objectives.

Rural non-farm development plays a key role in generating employment in many developing countries. Clustering is an important industrial organization in the rural non-farm sector.

In spite of remarkable growth in Ethiopia’s agricultural production and overall real incomes (GDP/capita) from 2004/05 to 2008/09, prices of major cereals (teff, maize, wheat and sorghum) have fluctuated sharply in both nominal and real terms.

Ethiopia’s national development strategy, A Plan for Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty for 2005/06 to 2009/10 (PASDEP) places a major emphasis on achieving high rates of agricultural and overall economic growth.

Ethiopia enjoyed remarkable economic growth from 2004/05 to 2008/09, in large part due to increases in foreign transfers and capital inflows combined with expanded domestic credit to fund major increases in private and public investments in infras

This study presents empirical findings on drinking water supply in Ethiopia from a set of qualitative and quantitive surveys on rural public services.

The Ethiopian Strategy Support Program (ESSP-II) Conference on “Accelerating Agricultural Development, Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction in Ethiopia” was held at the Addis Ababa Hilton Hotel from October 22-24.

Reliable quantitative analysis of sectoral and macro-economic policy requires sound data and appropriate analytical tools, as encompassed in the 2005-06 Ethiopia Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) presented in this paper.

The Ethiopia Strategy Support Program, the first major IFPRI country strategy support program managed by the Development Strategy and Governance Division (DSGD), has been undertaken in close coll