• 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 ...
    • Fertilizer and sustainable intensification in Africa 

      Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2018:1, Working paper, 2018)
      The paper investigates the important role of fertilizer to enhance sustainable intensification and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa based on a multi-disciplinary literature review. The review starts with a macro-perspective ...
    • 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 ...
    • Links between tenure security and food security in poor agrarian economies : causal linkages and policy implications 

      Holden, Stein Terje; Ghebru, Hosaena (CLTS Working paper;2016:7, Working paper, 2016)
      Population growth leads to growing land scarcity and landlessness in poor agrarian economies. Many of these also face severe climate risks that may increase in the future. Tenure security is important for food security in ...
    • Policies for improved food security : the roles of land tenure policies and land markets 

      Holden, Stein Terje (CLTS Working paper;2017:9, Working paper, 2017)
      This chapter provides an overview of what we know about farm size distributions, the emerging land markets, the role of tenure systems, tenure reforms and land policies in shaping the distribution of increasingly scarce ...