ethiopia | Agriculture Policy design
Ethiopian National Conference on Sustainable Land Management and Poverty Alleviation
A two day conference on on Sustainable Land Management and Poverty Alleviation, held on 18 - 19 May 2009 in Addis Abeba was successfully completed.
Land degradation and low productivity have been a longstanding problem in Ethiopia in general and in Oromia and SNNP regions. Different institutes and individuals have carried out extensive research to assess these problems of land degradation, their causes, remedies and impacts on agricultural development and sustainable resource use. However, these research results are hardly known to policy makers and development agencies of the regions.
To overcome this, lay the ground work for future research and to ensure information flow to the regions, Environmental Economics Policy Forum for Ethiopia (EEPFE) of the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI), Sustainable Land Use Forum (SLUF), Oromia Agricultural Research Institute (OARI) and Hawassa University (HU) have jointly organized a two-day conference on Sustainable Land Management and Poverty Alleviation with the following specific objectives:
1. Create common understanding on existing policies and strategies of the Oromia and SNNP regions in particular and implementation barriers,
2. To take stock of available and on-going sustainable land management research and draw possible policy implications and inform policy makers about these results,
3. Identify possible research gaps of policy relevance,
4. Promote inter-institutional and cross-sectoral cooperation and networking efforts between, EEPFE/EDRI, SLUF, OARI, HU and relevant institutions in the two regions that have actual and potential involvement in research and capacity building endeavours; Device mechanisms for improved policy-research linkage and institutionalization of strategies for effective dissemination of research results to policy makers in particular and the public at large.
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