Researchers have sought to understand what keeps women’s observed rates of agricultural technology adoption low. But what happens after a new technology is adopted by a household? Do women’s lives really become better? Are they more empowered? A new paper explores these questions using the example of adopting small-scale irrigation technologies in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Tanzania.
Adding Value: Supporting Pastoralist Women’s Traditional Dairy Processing in Ethiopia
It is 10 am on a Friday in Dubuluk, a small town in Borana region 630 km from Addis Ababa. As they do every Friday, a group of women congregate on the side of the big livestock market, sitting with their gorfa, pear-shaped traditional milk containers made of weaved plant fibers, and selling “ititu,” traditional […]
ESSP Newsletter April – June 2017
Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (ESSP) is pleased to present you its quarterly newsletter for the months of April - June 2017. The newsletter highlights the program's policy related research on 'The rising costs of nutritious foods in Ethiopia'; progress on PSNP-IV - BMGF survey; and more. It also summarizes the upcoming events for the next three months, recent […]
ESSP Newsletter January – March 2017
Ethiopia Strategy Support Program (ESSP) presents its quarterly newsletter for the months of January - March 2017. The newsletter highlights the program's new study on Ethiopia's livestock, "Better Performing Livestock Systems in Ethiopia",
