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Transboundary water resource governance is premised on equitable water and water-related benefit sharing. Using the case of the Blue Nile (Ethiopia and Sudan), we explore the conceptual issues that need consideration in the crafting of cross-border cooperation within the water sector. First, draw...


Mapedza, EveristoHaileslassie, AmareHagos, FitsumMcCartney, Matthew P.Awulachew, Seleshi BekeleTafesse, T.[Transboundary water governance institutional architecture: reflections from Ethiopia and Sudan]Transboundary water governance institutional architecture: reflections from Ethiopia and Sudan

Irrigation development is seen as one of the means to reduce poverty and promote economic growth. While a lot of effort is exerted towards irrigation development, little attempt is done to quantify the contribution of irrigation to national income in Ethiopia. This study is an attempt to quantify...


Hagos, FitsumMakombe, GodswillNamara, Regassa E.Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele[Importance of irrigated agriculture to the Ethiopian economy: capturing the direct net benefits of irrigation]Importance of irrigated agriculture to the Ethiopian economy: capturing the direct net benefits of irrigation

It is the belief of many analysts that agrarian countries like Ethiopia that depend on rain-fed agriculture are significantly vulnerable to rainfall variability, the risk which tends to aggravate with global climate change. Consequently, it is believed that future increases in food supplies and e...


Loulseged, MakonnenAwulachew, Seleshi BekeleJayasinghe, GayathreeHagos, FitsumErkossa, Teklu[Inventory, sustainability assessment, and upscaling of best agricultural water management practices]Inventory, sustainability assessment, and upscaling of best agricultural water management practices
Tadesse, F.Hagos, FitsumKassie, Girma T.Baker, Derek[Price analysis and performance of indigenous Menz sheep marketing: the case of Menz district; Ethiopia]Price analysis and performance of indigenous Menz sheep marketing: the case of Menz district; Ethiopia

The study examined whether the use of spate irrigation in drought-prone areas of Ethiopia reduced poverty. Each of about 25 users of indigenous and modern spate irrigation schemes and an equal number of corresponding nonusers from the same peasant associations in Oromia and Tigray regional states...


Hagos, FitsumErkossa, TekluLefore, NicoleLangan, Simon J.[Spate irrigation and poverty in Ethiopia]Spate irrigation and poverty in Ethiopia

The study examined whether access to spate irrigation leads to better nutrition outcomes. The results showed that there is an overall improvement in the study sites compared to the 2011 DHS study. As far as households with access to spate irrigation are concerned, weight-for-height z-scores indic...


Hagos, FitsumMulugeta, A.Erkossa, TekluLefore, NicoleLangan, Simon J.[Diversion of flashy floods for agricultural use and its effect on nutrition in Ethiopia]Diversion of flashy floods for agricultural use and its effect on nutrition in Ethiopia

Farmers in rural Ethiopia live in a climate-related shock-prone environment. The major source of climate shock is the persistent variation in the amount and distribution of rainfall. The dependence on unreliable rainfall increases farmers? vulnerability to shocks while also constraining farmers? ...


Hagos, FitsumJayasinghe, GayathreeAwulachew, Seleshi BekeleLoulseged, MakonnenYilma, Aster Denekew[Poverty impacts of agricultural water management technologies in Ethiopia]Poverty impacts of agricultural water management technologies in Ethiopia

The Ethiopian part of the Nile basin is dominated by a mixed crop-livestock rainfed agriculture constrained by temporal and spatial variations in climate, relief, soil, and sever land degradation exacerbated by lack of appropriate technologies. The continued shrinking per capita agricultural land...


Erkossa, TekluAwulachew, Seleshi BekeleHagos, FitsumDenekew, Aster[Characterization and productivity assessment of the farming systems in the Upper part of the Nile Basin]Characterization and productivity assessment of the farming systems in the Upper part of the Nile Basin
Hagos, FitsumNakawuka, ProssieSchmitter, PetraTegegne, DesalegnHaileslassie, AmareBarron, JennieLefore, NicoleMupangwa, W. T.[Drip irrigation and service provision of irrigation water: new ways to step into affordable small-scale irrigated agriculture]Drip irrigation and service provision of irrigation water: new ways to step into affordable small-scale irrigated agriculture

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