ON 15 FEBRUARY 2018, HAILEMARIAM DESALEGN, Ethiopia's beleaguered prime
minister, resigned. Bowing to pressure from within his own party, 1 the Ethiopian People's …

Disaster risks are the results of complex spatiotemporal interactions between risk
components, impacts and societal response. The complexities of these interactions increase …

Literature on transformations to sustainability increasingly recognizes transformation as
inherently political, but the field still struggles to study these politics. Our research project …

Ethiopia has experienced more than 10 major drought episodes since the 1970s. Evidence
has shown that climate change exacerbates the situation and presents a daunting challenge …

Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of city-making, cities around the world are not
merging into indistinguishable duplicates of one another. In fact, as the world urbanizes …

The last two decades, a variety of–mostly donor-led–initiatives have aimed at 'localizing'land
tenure registration, specifically in conflict-affected settings, making the registration of land …

Smallholder settlement schemes have played a prominent role in Kenya's contested history
of state-building, land politics, and electoral mobilization. This paper presents the first …

We examined the determinants of conflict among agro-pastoral households in areas affected
by large-scale land investments in Ethiopia. We combined household and community …

As stated in the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) report, Ethiopia has the
second largest multidimensionally poor population in Africa (after Nigeria). The global MPI …

While land registration may increase the sense of security amongst landholders and provide
a mechanism for resolving boundary disputes, its interaction with social, political-economic …