Disaster response and emergency risk management in Ethiopia
Agrarian communities dependent on rainfall are vulnerable to production shortfalls due to drought and other climatic shocks. The human suffering caused by such shocks is often amplified due to deficiencies in market fundamentals, such as roads, information, and risk management institutions. This has...
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| author | Graham, John Rashid, Shahidur Malek, Mehrab |
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| description | Agrarian communities dependent on rainfall are vulnerable to production shortfalls due to drought and other climatic shocks. The human suffering caused by such shocks is often amplified due to deficiencies in market fundamentals, such as roads, information, and risk management institutions. This has been the case in Ethiopia for several centuries, dating back to medieval chronicles of the ninth century (Pankhurst 1985; von Braun, Teklu, and Webb 1998), when droughts caused widespread food insecurities and, in extreme cases, famine. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1541492025-11-06T04:15:23Z Disaster response and emergency risk management in Ethiopia Graham, John Rashid, Shahidur Malek, Mehrab disasters risk management emergency relief agricultural development agricultural policies economic growth agricultural sector resilience Agrarian communities dependent on rainfall are vulnerable to production shortfalls due to drought and other climatic shocks. The human suffering caused by such shocks is often amplified due to deficiencies in market fundamentals, such as roads, information, and risk management institutions. This has been the case in Ethiopia for several centuries, dating back to medieval chronicles of the ninth century (Pankhurst 1985; von Braun, Teklu, and Webb 1998), when droughts caused widespread food insecurities and, in extreme cases, famine. 2012 2024-10-01T13:59:49Z 2024-10-01T13:59:49Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154149 en Open Access application/pdf University of Pennsylvania Press Graham, John; Rashid, Shahidur; Malek, Mehrab. 2012. Disaster response and emergency risk management in Ethiopia. In Food and Agriculture in Ethiopia: Progress and Policy Challenges, ed. Paul A. Dorosh and Shahidur Rashid. Chapter 9 pp. 256-279. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154149 |
| spellingShingle | disasters risk management emergency relief agricultural development agricultural policies economic growth agricultural sector resilience Graham, John Rashid, Shahidur Malek, Mehrab Disaster response and emergency risk management in Ethiopia |
| title | Disaster response and emergency risk management in Ethiopia |
| title_full | Disaster response and emergency risk management in Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Disaster response and emergency risk management in Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Disaster response and emergency risk management in Ethiopia |
| title_short | Disaster response and emergency risk management in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | disaster response and emergency risk management in ethiopia |
| topic | disasters risk management emergency relief agricultural development agricultural policies economic growth agricultural sector resilience |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154149 |
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