Workneh Negatu

TL;DR: Ato Mohammed, 55 and illiterate, lives in the Bati district of South Wollo Zone (Ethiopia) and heads a household of nine people with no oxen as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the impact of drought on poverty dynamics in the South Wollo area of northeastern Ethiopia and assesses which households were able to hold on to assets and recover from the 1999-2000 drought and which were not.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the main factors that influence smallholders' adoption decision of soil conservation measures in the Gedeb watershed and find that farmers need adequate cash to invest in soil conservation and are more encouraged to implement soil conservation when they have larger areas of cropland.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the asset dynamics of Ethiopian and Honduran households in the wake of severe environmental shocks and found that the poorest households struggle most with shocks, adopting coping strategies which are costly in terms of both short-term and long-term well-being.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the costs and benefits of three soil conservation measures applied in the country in three different rural districts facing different degrees of soil erosion problems using survey data collected from 750 farm households.