@article{Awulachew:210888,
      recid = {210888},
      author = {Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele},
      title = {Water-centered growth challenges, innovations and  interventions in Ethiopia},
      address = {2011},
      number = {614-2016-40900},
      pages = {pp.18-42.},
      year = {2011},
      note = {In Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Erkossa, Teklu; Balcha, Y.   (Comps.). Irrigation and water for sustainable development:  proceedings of the Second Forum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,  15-16 December 2008.  Colombo, Sri Lanka:  International  Water Management Institute (IWMI).},
      abstract = {Ethiopia’s economy and majority of the people’s  livelihoods are dependent on agriculture. To develop the  socioeconomy of Ethiopia and eradicate poverty, the policy  and interventions should focus on agriculture as an entry  point. In line with this, the government, bilateral and  multilateral donors, NGOs and various institutions share  the concepts and priorities identified in the “Plan for  Accelerated and Sustained Development to End Poverty  (PASDEP).” There are key challenges that need to be  strongly addressed on transforming agriculture by  overcoming a multitude of problems including biophysical  and water management issues to help achieve the targets of  PASDEP and sustainable socioeconomic growth in Ethiopia.  This particular paper aimed at addressing the water  management challenges that Ethiopia has faced in the past  and is facing today, and to stimulate ideas on how to  manage water resources to meet the growing needs for  agricultural products, to help reduce poverty and food  insecurity, and to show how water can be used as an  important entry point to transform its socio-economy and  contribute to sustainable development and the environment.  The issues discussed will focus on innovations, policies  and technologies that enable better investment and  management decisions in water use, particularly focusing on  agriculture and irrigation but also briefly looking into  other water-related subsectors such as hydropower, water  supply, watershed, drought and flood management as well as  other biophysical aspects. It has also been attempted to  make the paper suitable for decision-makers rather than  scientists, in order to raise useful ideas for dialogue and  further discussions, studies and researches. The paper,  therefore, does not claim exhaustiveness. The target  audiences of this paper are the people who make the  investment and management decisions in water and water  management for agriculture, and other subsectors -  agricultural producers, water managers, investors,  policymakers and civil society. The paper has benefited  from the review of key policy and strategy documents of  Ethiopia, outputs of various outcomes of research, civil  society meetings and workshops, data and information  available in government institutions, and global knowledge.  The key major issues that are discussed in the paper  include the following: Socioeconomic development challenges  of Ethiopia, viewed from a water resources perspective.,  The water resources endowment, development extent,  potentials and economic/socioeconomic development  linkages., Water-related innovations and agriculture.,  Water-related interventions in various agro-ecologies.,  Policy and strategy actions needed. This paper should also  be viewed with other components such as river basin growth  pole/corridor concept, institutional reform and research  capacity building. It focuses on analyzing key problems and  associated interventions, and can be applicable in the  contexts of the current situation and the future possible  reform under growth zones that can be taken as plausible  pathways for development.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/210888},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.210888},
}