Combating Food Insecurity and Rural Poverty in Ethiopia:

Abstract

This special journal review paper presents papers, most of which were contributions to
Research Symposia on International Development Issues that convened at Western Michigan
University on August 16â€18, 2001 and in Addis Ababa and in Ethiopia on July 11â€12, 2003i
respectively. The selected the papers deal with the various dimensions of famine and food
insecurity in Ethiopia such as food crop production technology, marketing, land tenure and
management, agroâ€forestry, vulnerability to impoverishment, rural poverty, environmental
degradation, and policy options for improving market participation for small farmers and
livestock producers, and rural vulnerability.