Browsing Brage NMBU by Author "Shively, Gerald"

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    • Attaining secure rural livelihood : the role of household strategies and public interventions 

      Debela, Bethelhem Legesse (PhD Thesis;2014:93, Doctoral thesis, 2014)
      This dissertation uses survey data from Northern Ethiopia and Western Uganda to study the role of household strategies and public interventions in enabling households to attain secure rural livelihoods. The thesis composes ...

    • Commodity prices and market institutions in Ethiopia 

      Tadesse, Getaw (PhD Thesis;2010:14, Doctoral thesis, 2010)
      This PhD Thesis comprises five chapters including an introduction and four separate papers. The overall objective of the thesis is to evaluate the performance of agricultural commodity markets in Ethiopia. Economists have ...

    • Does Ethiopia's productive safety net program improve child nutrition? 

      Debela, Bethelhem Legesse; Shively, Gerald; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2014:1, Working paper, 2014)
      We study the link between Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) and short-run nutrition outcomes among children age 5 years and younger. We use 2006 and 2010 survey data from Northern Ethiopia to estimate parameters ...

    • Food for work and diet diversity in Ethiopia 

      Debela, Bethelhem Legesse; Shively, Gerald; Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2017:14, Working paper, 2017)
      We use four waves of panel data from Northern Ethiopia to investigate the link between Food for Work (FFW) participation and the diversity of food consumption and production. Food-based transfer programs have become a ...

    • Food prices in sub-Saharan Africa : four essays on grain prices, food aid, cross-border trade and fuel prices 

      Arega, Meron Assefa (PhD Thesis;2015:20, Doctoral thesis, 2017-11-29)
      The central concern of this thesis is the measurement and explanation of food price movements in Ethiopia and Malawi. The main objective is to examine how food grain pricesrespond to domestic and international commodity ...

    • Forests and livelihoods in Malawi : looking beyond aggregate income shares 

      Chilongo, Thabbie Maxwell Saukira (PhD Thesis;2014:51, Doctoral thesis, 2014)
      This thesis assesses the role and determinants of forest products on livelihoods of rural households surrounding Chimaliro and Liwonde forest reserves in Malawi. The task is achieved in four independent but thematically-related ...