The research agreement was made of the month of December 2005 between the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and The Environmental Economics Policy Forum (EEPF) of the Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). The agreement began on December 1, 2005 and continued until December 31, 2006.
The goal of this project is to be able to develop the capacity to adapt to global change for vulnerable rural areas in developing countries with the purpose of providing policy makers and stakeholders in Ethiopia and South Africa, particularly farmers and other rural stakeholders who face the largest impact from global change, with tools to better understand, analyze, and form policy decisions that allowed them to adapt to global change.
Outcomes of the project:-
- Characterization of vulnerability and adaptive capacity with local partners and stakeholders (Ethiopia and South Africa);
- Identification of determinants of adaptive capacity with partners and stakeholders;
- Development of integrated policy analysis tools with partners;
- Global change assessment and scenario analysis- Assessment of the impact of global change on rural Africa, in general , and on Ethiopia and South Africa , in particular , and analysis of response options developed in Ethiopian and South African study sites based in the integrated policy analysis tool;
- Development of general directions for adaptation and mitigation strategies for rural Africa and the developing world; and specific strategies for Ethiopia and South Africa together with local partners and wide dissemination of research results; and
- Enhanced national and international capacity.
Specific delivered outputs include:-
- ‘Ethiopianize’ questionnaire designed for SA together with partners (IFPRI, PhD students, U. Hamburg);
- Develop stratification criteria (capture rain-fed vs, irrigated systems, livestock and crops) in main provinces roughly related to Nile river basin , 1000 households, and draft a paper on selection;
- Pretest questionnaire, finalize questionnaire, and translate;
- Hire enumerators; implement the questionnaire for 1000 households;
- Data entry, validation for a total of 1000 households, write-up of report on design /implementation /preliminary statistical analyses;
- Collect auxiliary data that was needed for the survey analysis (including rainfall data survey locations, wage rates, and market prices of crops surveyed);
- Develop paper(s) with IFPRI and potentially including the PhD student based on the survey; in particular on: crop- wise production functions with water as an input based on household survey, deadline of draft paper: July 15, 2006; and
- Co-supervision support of Ethiopian PhD student.