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This blog was first published on IFPRI Ethiopia website. Armed conflicts and other concurrent crises that have been occurring in different regions of Ethiopia in the past couple of years have left behind a legacy of massive displacement and disruption of agricultural activities, exposing millions of people to various challenges, including food shortages, malnutrition, and loss of productive resources

This blog was originally published on IFPRI Ethiopia’s website. Over the last two decades, Ethiopia achieved rapid and substantial economic growth and development and maintained relative stability within the volatile Horn of Africa region. However, more recently, Ethiopia continue to face major challenges arising from internal conflicts and related shocks. A recent conflict that broke out in November 2020 in

On 18 December 2024, the CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains, in partnership with the Ethiopian Ministry of Water and Energy, and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), hosted an online workshop on groundwater governance. The workshop shared results from recent international research on groundwater governance and discussed opportunities for improving groundwater governance policy and practice in Ethiopia. The event aimed

By Mequanint B. Melesse, Vishwambhar Duche, Anupama Guvvalavenkata, Dron Kumar, Richu Sanil, Thomas Falk, and Ruth Meinzen-Dick In many semi-arid and arid dryland regions of India, water scarcity is a serious challenge to development. In these regions, prolonged droughts and climate variability pose a threat to both agricultural systems and livelihoods. As a result, the majority of these regions are

By Muzna Alvi and Farha Sufian Promotion of water-intensive cotton and wheat for export has caused the Aral Sea, once one of the world’s largest lakes, to shrink dramatically. Uzbekistan, a downstream riparian country in the Aral Sea Basin, requires large amounts of water for irrigation, and for energy processing and electricity generation. In turn, energy is needed to pump,

“Yesterday, I saw in the press that 2024 is on track to be the hottest year ever”, said Matthew McCartney, CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains Lead, kicking off the NEXUS Gains webinar ‘Water in a heated world’ on 12 December 2024. With an eye on the rising global thermometer, this 29th and final webinar in the NEXUS Gains Talks series examined the

Much of South Asia’s prosperity, both literally and figuratively, rests upon vast reserves of groundwater. Some of the highest-yielding aquifers in the world supply water for irrigated agriculture (where 90 percent of withdrawals are directed), industry, and daily domestic needs. However, it all depends on a delicate balance; for sustainability, groundwater outflows, including long-term extractions, must not exceed natural recharge. Across

The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth largest lake, but since the 1960s it has become one of the world’s worst environmental disasters – an infamous case of ecological collapse. Diverting water for irrigation, originally to support cotton farming in what was then the Soviet Union, dried out the lake to the point where only small remnants remain. Today,