How can African agriculture adapt to climate change: Assessing Household Vulnerability to Climate Change: The Case of Farmers in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia

Temesgen Deressa (), Rashid Hassan and Claudia Ringler

No 15(4), Research briefs from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: Ethiopia remains one of the least-developed countries in the world: 50 percent of the population lives in abject poverty, and average life expectancy is only 43 years. Agriculture-the main sector of the Ethiopian economy-employs about 80 percent of the population and is dominated by small-scale, mixed crop and livestock production with very low productivity, which can be attributed to obsolete farming techniques; soil degradation caused by overgrazing and deforestation; poor complementary services, such as extension, credit, markets, and infrastructure; and frequent droughts and floods.

Keywords: climate change; households; vulnerability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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