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Ethiopia and Food Security

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Ethiopia and Food Security

What We Know, How We Know It, and Future Options

ISBN Code : 978-1-59-907279-1
Author : Logan Cochrane 
Language : English
Pages number : 258
Format : Paperback
Publication date : 09/15/2021

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Ethiopia has made significant progress preventing famine. However, food insecurity remains a significant challenge for the country. As recent as 2016, one in five Ethiopians relied on emergency assistance. Ethiopia and Food Security analyzes what makes people vulnerable to food insecurity, by analyzing individual households as well as the broader systems, policies, and services that people interact with. This exploration assesses what we know about food security in Ethiopia, and employs a new methodology to expand the types of questions being asked. The results highlight the role of issues not often associated with food security research, such as migration and debt. This participatory approach identifies that research often makes invisible the purposeful and insightful choices farmers make. When surveyed, farmers are asked to provide generalizations about input use, crop choice and planting practices, when in reality each crop, input and practice varies. Similarly, some commonly used measures of vulnerability can also be expressions of security; aggregated averages obfuscate localized inequality. In analyzing how the evidence about food security is shaped, Ethiopia and Food Security highlights avenues for re-envisioning research methods, particularly as policy and practice encounter politics. Importantly, this book synthesizes what we know about food security in Ethiopia and presents options and opportunities available for strengthening it.

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CONTENTS

Introduction
1. Food Security
2. Ethiopia
3. Encountering
4. How we know: Methods, metrics and measures
5. Vulnerability
6. Policies, programs and services
7. Engaging change
8. Discussion
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REVIEWS

“Ethiopia and Food Security could not have come at a better time. The author, who has lived, worked and conducted extensive research in the country over many years, brings a wealth of knowledge to the subject, a greater empathy for the rural people who are the chief actors in the book, and a fresh perspective, making the work richer as well as more insightful.”–Dessalegn Rahmato, Forum for Social Studies, Addis Ababa

“While applauding Ethiopia’s remarkable success in drought mitigation and famine prevention, Dr. Cochrane provides a unique perspective on the complex drivers of food insecurity and options for alleviating them. Ethiopia and Food Security is highly recommended for anyone interested not just in understanding and measuring these problems but also in addressing them by designing effective programs, policies and services.”–Teferi Abate Adem, Research Anthropologist, HRAF at Yale University

“This book looks at food insecurity from a human rights perspective. It offers a detailed and systematic examination from its historical backgrounds, measurements, policies, programmes and approaches to services. Ethiopia and Food Security also proposes that public policy decisions about food security should be based on rigorously and scientifically established evidence.”–Mulugeta F. Dinbabo, Professor, University of the Western Cape, South Africa

“While the devastating famine with which Ethiopia’s name was globally associated in the past appears to have subsided, food security is far from assured. This copiously documented book examines the prevalent question of food insecurity in Ethiopia from a rights-based perspective and concludes with a careful consideration of the available options.”–Bahru Zewde, Emeritus Professor of History, Addis Ababa University

AUTHOR

Logan Cochrane is an Associate Professor at HBKU (College of Public Policy), Assistant Professor at Carleton University (Global and International Studies) and Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). He has authored over 100 publications. In 2021 he co-edited the book The Transnational Land Rush in Africa and in 2019 he edited the book Ethiopia: Social and Political Issues.

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