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Pathways to a climate resilient future: a community-based cost benefit analysis of a food security project in Ethiopia

GDPC
April 17, 2014

In recent years, climate change impacts have created grave new threats to rural livelihoods. Community-based cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is an evidence-based tool which can effectively be used to ascertain the value and impact of integrating resilience-building interventions in food security programming.

The following case study provides an overview of a community-based CBA that was conducted by the IFRC to provide a quantitative analysis to complement the qualitative benefits of the South Wollo Food Security Project which was implemented in Ethiopia.

Topics

Climate Change Adaptation, Drought, Flood, Livelihoods and Food Security

Country

Africa, Ethiopia

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