Sentences with phrase «in ethiopia»

Meskerem Mulatu, gender and nutrition specialist in Ethiopia's Agricultural Growth Program II (AGP II) Capacity Development Support Facility (CDSF), said her group invited Drucza to speak on gender and social norms at a national workshop organized by AGP II CDSF in October 2017.

In a series of interviews with farmers in Ethiopia, our research shows that implementing measures to conserve soil and water can improve farm incomes by an average of 50 %.

Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) of the U.S. Ethiopia mission, seed relief complemented international and national food aid, helping farm families to quickly grow crops after several seasons of erratic or failed rains in Ethiopia and the catastrophic 2015 - 16 El Niño droughts.

The fossil remains of a 3.2 million years old hominid skeleton was discovered in Ethiopia (November 24th).

Gender awareness and gender - sensitive approaches are slowly spreading into agricultural research, extension, and policy in Ethiopia, based on recent statements from a cross section of professionals and practitioners in the country.

• Antibiotic use to treat pneumonia in the 15 highest - burden countries varies greatly, from seven percent in Ethiopia to 64 percent in Afghanistan.

SA: Recently, archaeologists working in Ethiopia announced that they had found evidence that humans were using stone tools to butcher animals 800,000 years earlier than previously thought, and the hominids in question were probably australopithecines, namely Lucy's species,.

Ardi and fossil bones from at least 35 other children and adults were uncovered in the Afar desert in Ethiopia by the Middle Awash research group.

As the programs are expanding in Ethiopia, India and Pakistan, we hope to learn more about how to make this program work better, either by reducing costs or by improving the services.

Since Lucy was discovered in Ethiopia's Afar region in 1974, researchers have uncovered many more fossils assigned to her species, Australopithecus afarensis, and dated to between 3.7 million and 3.0 million years ago.

Another fresh set of fossils from the northern Rift Valley, in Ethiopia, has only added to the confusion.

Helping people in Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Pakistan, and Peru to become self - employed enables the very poor to become less poor.

Most Central Asian strains are of the type - 1 variety, whereas type 2 predominates in Ethiopia, type 3 in Europe, North Africa, and the Americas, and type 4 in West Africa and the Caribbean.

We conducted six randomized trials in Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, India, Pakistan, and Peru with a total of 10,495 participants.

In Ethiopia, 20 Somalian refugee families have been living in these houses since August, prototypes of a lightweight, durable, insulating shelter developed by the Swedish design team Refugee Housing Unit and funded by the Ikea Foundation.

2015 A jawbone unearthed in Ethiopia could, some suggest, be the oldest fossil of our Homo genus.

«To have drought at the level of 2011 and no deaths in Ethiopia?

Steve: There is a story in the book about him going back to Ethiopia after many years — the political climate there made it impossible for Johanson to do any field work in Ethiopia for a while — and when he got back and announced to the customs official that he was the discoverer of Lucy, that was like a really big deal.

Jan Beck, an insect ecologist at the University of Basel in Switzerland, found himself in the middle of this debate a few years ago while leading his students on a field trip in Ethiopia.

«They live out in the communities themselves,» she said, adding that this is a pivotal factor that has helped to drive down child mortality in Ethiopia by 25 per cent since 2003.

And so we worked a lot in Ethiopia, in Nigeria, in South Africa.

So Lucy is a huge deal in Ethiopia where she was discovered.

These traits make the foot more similar to those of ancient apes and an earlier upright walker, Ardipithecus ramidus (aka «Ardi»), which lived 4.4 million years ago in Ethiopia, than to Lucy's foot.

Today, Ghana is free of guinea worms and the Carter Center counts only 70 cases in South Sudan, 40 in Mali, 13 in Chad and three in Ethiopia.

About 70 % of water flow reaching Egypt is derived from the Blue Nile and Atbara River, both sourced in Ethiopia.

(In Ethiopia, for example, there are only three submitting authors and two of them have been flagged.)

FOSSILS from the Awash river valley in Ethiopia have pushed the existence of man's line back to before 4 million years ago.

Two years ago, a graduate student searching for fossils at a desolate site in Ethiopia made an exciting discovery: He found a 2.8 - million - year - old jawbone of a hominin in the sand.

Louise Barrett, Robin Dunbar and Patsy Dunbar of University College in London analysed observations made of gelada baboons in Ethiopia.

HOME SWEET GENOME A 4,500 - year - old man's skeleton found in Ethiopia's Mota Cave has yielded the first ancient human genome from Africa.

War and famine in Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan in the mid-1970s marked the beginning of a series of international conflicts which has pushed the number of refugees up towards the 19 million mark.

(It is unclear exactly what was going on in Ethiopia at the time because no records survive.)

For his PhD, Sil Lanckriet is studying climatic fluctuations in Ethiopia over the past centuries, as well as their impact on periods of drought and processes of soil erosion.

After anthropologists excavated her 3 - million - year - old skeleton in Ethiopia in 1974 — and named her for a Beatles song playing at the site on the discovery day — they soon became convinced it was female.

«Our research experience in Ethiopia shows that it is certainly possible that a similar drought will occur again, but this time it will probably not lead to a famine as in 1984.

Burning vegetation is illegal in Ethiopia, as it was in many places before its importance for biodiversity was understood, and prescribed burning was reintroduced.

«Climate change mitigation project threatens local ecosystem resilience in Ethiopia.»

«I do not want them to go chasing after the farmer that may have given them something in 1918 in Ethiopia.

The well - known Australopithecus afarensis fossil we call Lucy, for example, lived a little over 3 million years ago in Ethiopia's Afar region, roughly 700 miles northeast of Lake Turkana.

A plantation in Ethiopia's Gambela region, owned by a Saudi Arabian billionaire, diverts water from the Alwero River, according to a June 2012 report from GRAIN, a non-profit organization that advocates for small farmers.

Working in Ethiopia over a period of 2 years, the researchers monitored 12 copses of B. papyrifera: six that had been tapped and six that had not.

Each harvest that we've had, first in Kenya, then in Ethiopia, and recently in Malawi and in Rwanda, has tripled or quadrupled the amount of food produced.

I would hear about her adventures in Ethiopia and her research, and I was so fascinated, as someone coming from the arts.

But although the intervention was successful in Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Pakistan and Peru, it failed in Honduras.

Food prices reached record levels in several markets including wheat in Ethiopia, maize in Kenya and red sorghum grain in Somalia, says the report.

If one could choose between being a peasant farmer in Ethiopia or a bushman gatherer in the Kalahari, which do you think would be the better choice?

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia offer a glimpse of the time when humans and chimps were first going their separate evolutionary ways — and may represent the earliest known human ancestor.

In Ethiopia, erosion in the highlands was responsible for the migration of peasants to the lowlands near Somalia, and the ensuing Ogaden war.

I am fortunate: I was raised in Ethiopia, and I have exceptional parents who are passionate about their science.

According to Lovejoy, this reduction in canine teeth is first seen in the fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus, which were found in Ethiopia and dated to 4.4 million years ago.