In Ethiopia for the last 8 year starting from the eve of Ethiopianrnmillennium the govemment of Ethiopia has launched SWC andrnEnvironmental rehabilitation works to prevent land and Environmentalrndegradation using massive movement of the people. Land degradationrnin the fonn of soil erosion in...
The main objective of this study is to examme the inter-relationshiprnbetween population pressure and agricultural development in Arssi region. Thernbasic data for the study were acquired from secondary sources.rnVarious descriptive statistics (percentages, means, standard deviationsrnand...
This paper examines the recently growing adoption of non-pastoral livelihoodrnstrategies and its linkages with changes of land use/land cover among the Karrayurnpastoralists in Fentale Woreda, East Showa Zone. Three kebeles were selected fromrn18 rural kebeles. With a constructive combination of...
This study identified the major tenure systems wilh the corresponding property righls and Ihernrelationship behveen lenure and housing development. It also examines the extent to which factorsrnlike tenure type. tenure security local ion of the area, households income, land/housing/...
Female genital muti~tion has been common in Ethiopia for several generations. BothMuslim..and ,rnChristian population practice genital mutilation.rnIn this study an attempt was made to explore socio-demographic and economic correlates offemalerngenital mutilation, theprrnJence offemale genital...
Two sample Keheles of Tach Gayint Woreda were randomly selected by 10ttelY methodrnwir/iout replacement /i'om six potential Keheles producing this crop, to explore therncontribution of cultivating haricot bean to rural household food security. 100 samplernhouseholds were randomly selected for the...
The study has been designed to investigate the causes and consequence of urban ward migrationrnin Ethiopia, by taking Dukem town as a case study. Furthermore, attempts were made to identifYrnthe causes for migration, investigate factors that facilitate migration and to analysis thernconsequences of...
One of the biggest contemporary challenges of management in tourism service industriesrnis providing and maintaining tourist satisfaction. This study focuses on the tourist'srnsatisfaction in resort hotels categories in Hawassa city. The content analysis isrndetermining Ihe exlent of the lourist's...
Addis Ababa, the capital city and the most urbanized center in Ethiopia, hasrnexperienced a TFR level of 1.8 births per woman in the year 1994 that never expelienced byrnany other city of developing country. As such an attempt is made by CSA to investigate thernreal level of fertility and it is...
The present study is aimed at assessing the living conditions and the socioeconomic situation ojrnWomen Fuelwood Carriers and their interaction with the Jorest resources, and the effect on thernJorest as well, due to filelwood harvesting, as a result oj the great demand Jor energy supply....
This paper examined whether factors like infrastructure, training and advice, willingness to pay,rnattitude of members of Micro and Small Enterprises .(MSEs) towards their work, leadershiprn·competence and .gender difference resulted in performance difference of MSEs engaged in so lidrnwaste...
The reproductive and sexual health deci sion of young people has several adverse SOCIOdemographic.rneconomic, and health consequences. Understanding of youth sexual behavior inrnrelation to parental characteristics is very crucial. A cross sectional survey on parentalrncharacteristics and sexual...
Household food insecurity is a key development problem in Ethiopia. Very few studies havernbeen conducted on the relationship between household food security and demographicrnresponses to food insecurity. A study was conducted on 1200 rural households in North Wollornzone. These households were...
The major purpose of this study was to asses the practice of RWH scheme with particular emphasis on itsrnchallenges, strengths and potentials to enhance food security of peasant households in Kalu Woreda,rnSouth Wello Zone, Amhara Regional State. To materialize this objective, the extent of...
Using data from the 1990 NFFS, this study attempts to show the direction and degrrernof association between education and life-time fertility. It also attempts to determinernthe threshold level of education at which marked fertility decline .can occur.rnA total of 1268 currently married women of...
Since the household is the major consumption unit of energy sources, it is importantrnto assess the use of energy at the household level. The purpose of this research is tornassess the demographic and socio-economic factors that determine householdrnenergy use in Dilla Town. A cross-sectional...
The essential oil of Myl'/us communis (EOMC) was evaluated for its antid iarrheal andrnantispasmodic potential against isolated guinea ileum (OPI), ex-vivo antispasmodicrnmodel; normal and castor oil-induced intestinal transit in mice; castor oi l-inducedrndiarrhea in mice and prostaglandin induce...
Food insecurity is one of the top-standing scourges that all countries of the worldrnhave been suffering. However, its scale varies in time and place. This studyrntherefore, atlempts to identifY level and key determinants of as well as copingrnmechanisms adopted at local level (by the householders...
There is naw scientific consensus that the global climate is changing. Though, impacts ofrnclimate change are not limited spatially and temporally, the vulnerability of regions,rncountries, social groups and households to effects of climatic variability and shocks arernnot uniformly distributed. To...