Ethiopia

Rural households, Agriculture, and Climate change – why and how farmers (do not) adapt in Ethiopia (RACE)

Research project Global warming has far-reaching consequences for humans, ecosystems, and economies, especially affecting rural households with limited ability to adapt in low and middle-income countries. In Africa, families reliant on rain-fed agriculture are partic ...

Period: 2023-06-1 to 2028-03-31 Countries: Ethiopia Lead institution: University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark Partner institutions: Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia Policy Studies Institute (PSI), Ethiopia Project code: 23-01-KU Total grant: 12,168,074 DKK

Complex pathways of climate mobility for children and youth in Ethiopia

Research project All over the world, children and youth are feeling the effects of unprecedented, intensifying and in some instances even irreversible climate change. Those growing up in developing countries are particularly vulnerable to these changes. With gloomy p ...

Period: 2023-03-1 to 2027-02-28 Countries: Ethiopia Lead institution: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark Partner institutions: The Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), Ethiopia Project code: 23-02-DIIS Total grant: 12,347,391 DKK

Large-Scale Integration of Wind Power Generation in Ethiopia – LastWind

Research project Ethiopia has a large renewable energy generation potential based upon its natural resources, such as hydro, wind, solar and geothermal. According to the strategic plan of the country, by 2030 the share of other renewables will increase by more than 2 ...

Period: 2023-08-1 to 2026-07-31 Countries: Ethiopia Lead institution: Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark Partner institutions: Debre Berhan University (DBU), Ethiopia Hawassa University (HU), Ethiopia Project code: 23-M01-AAU Total grant: 5,370,376 DKK

The paradoxes of climate-smart coffee (PACSMAC)

Research project Coffee, especially the valuable Arabica cultivar, is vulnerable to climate change. Warmer and wetter weather and spreading fungal disease have encouraged farmers to experiment with a variety of strategies, including shifting uphill, shade growing, ne ... First year report: The PACSMAC team would like to showcase the progress and status of the process. In doing so, we have broken down our assessment by summarising the key outcomes from the different work workpackages. WP1 is experiencing good pr ...

Period: 2021-04-1 to 2026-03-31 Countries: Ethiopia Tanzania Lead institution: Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark Partner institutions: University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM), Tanzania Jimma University (JU), Ethiopia Project code: 20-07-CBS Total grant: 11,984,425 DKK

Decent Work and Inclusive Industrialization in Ethiopia

Research project Sub-Saharan African (SSA) governments are looking for sectors that can drive inclusive growth in the context of large youth populations, high under- and unemployment, and previous growth trajectories that did not create enough jobs or catalyze econom ... First Year Report The fourth PhD was hired: Blen Telayneh Melesse; she is a lecturer in anthropology. Due to covid travel restrictions, we held a virtual inception workshop for the whole team on 12 June 2020. All contracts were signed. We procee ...

Period: 2020-01-1 to 2026-01-31 Countries: Ethiopia Lead institution: Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark Partner institutions: Mekelle University (MU), Ethiopia University of Vienna (UNIVIE), Austria London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom University of Nairobi (UoN), Kenya Project code: 19-01-RUC Total grant: 10,314,166 DKK

Better Barley by New Breeding Techniques

Research project Barley is an important food security crop in Ethiopia, and is a priority crop for the Ethiopian Government. There is an urgent need to lift breeding activities by incorporating new breeding techniques (NBT) to reach a planned yield goal of 3.9t/ha in ... First year report Several barley field-trials have been carried out in Ambo, Holetta and Kulumsa in Ethiopia to identify superior lines from around 1500 food barley landraces obtained from the Ethiopian Biodiversity Institute. The material include ...

Period: 2021-04-1 to 2025-03-31 Countries: Ethiopia Lead institution: Aarhus University (AU), Denmark Partner institutions: Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR), Ethiopia Haramya University (HU), Ethiopia Project code: 20-04-AU Total grant: 11,986,554 DKK

Global Norms and Violence Against Women in Ethiopia

Research project This project (GLOW) studies the role of global norms in development. It does so through a case study of the global norm on the elimination of violence against women (VAW) in Ethiopia. The norm was originally phrased in the Convention on the Eliminati ... Midterm report GLOW is a research programme exploring global norms and violence against women (VAW) in Ethiopia. The international community has invested substantial resources in establishing the Sustainable Development Goals and similar global no ...

Period: 2019-08-1 to 2024-07-31 Countries: Ethiopia Lead institution: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Denmark Partner institutions: The Peace and Development Center (PCD), Ethiopia Addis Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia Project code: 18-10-DIIS Total grant: 8,383,912 DKK

Renewable Energy based Minigrid Clusters in Ethiopia-REMCE

Research project According to recent studies, around 55% of 110 million inhabitants of Ethiopia (especially in rural areas) have no access to electricity. In addition, the electrified regions of the country, which are mainly based on hydroelectric power plants, are s ... Midterm report In the second year, we have finalized the basic electrical design of the multiple minigrids and minigrid clusters.Since the villages are yet to be electrified, the load demand has been estimated after the site visit to the concerned ...

Period: 2021-05-1 to 2024-04-30 Countries: Ethiopia Lead institution: Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark Partner institutions: Hawassa University (HU), Ethiopia Ministry of Water, Irrigation, and Energy (MoWIE), Ethiopia Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU), Ethiopia Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP), Ethiopia Kenergy ApS. (KEN), Denmark Gomspace A/S (GOM), Denmark Project code: 20-M04AAU Total grant: 4,999,804 DKK

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