Ethiopia, Somalia, and the Ogaden: Still a Running Sore at the Heart of the Horn of Africa

Vaughan, Sarah

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“…The intervention in the ongoing Somali Civil War led to increased tensions in the Somali region of southeastern Ethiopia (also referred to as the Ogaden). The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), a militia group in the Somali Region fighting for self-determination, was openly opposed to the Ethiopian invasion and carried out military operations against the Ethiopian military in the region (Vaughan, 2018). The Ethiopian Government put an embargo on the region, banning any trade in or out of the Somali region (Human Rights Watch, 2008).…”

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Risk, shocks, and markets : Theory and evidence from agricultural systems in low and middle income countries

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Markets are the bedrock of economic theory. The idea that prosperity is formed through the exchange of goods and services is as old as the study of economics itself (Smith 2008). Yet for agrarian societies, market-driven prosperity is far from certain. Economic actors in agricultural food systems continuously face uncertainty and risk -market price risk, climate risk, and political risk to name a few sources. Even if actors account for these risks ex ante, unexpected events (shocks) lie in wait to derail progress towards prosperity. This thesis investigates economic actors' adaptation to risk, responses to shocks, and markets' role in actors' decisionmaking under risk.The thesis presents economic theory and empirical evidence from three countries in the Global South -Tanzania, Peru, and Ethiopia -across different levels of economic actors. First, the thesis starts with understanding how households use production diversification to manage risks ex ante and what the implications of diversification strategies and market access are for household nutrition. Next, the thesis aims to understand intra-household decision-making in agricultural investment under production and market risk and what the implications of gendered decision-making are for family labor requirements and productivity. The thesis then moves to the analysis of ex post responses to risk. It explores how coffee-farming households affected by negative production shocks change their marketing strategies as a coping mechanism. Finally, the thesis zooms out to the market-level to show how market price fluctuations in food markets can be a source of uncertainty and drive regional and national instability and conflict through price effects on producers and consumers.Each chapter presents a stand-alone contribution to distinct strands of economic literature, but together the chapters underscore economic actors' heterogeneity in risk management and responses to shocks. Economic actors are diverse and operate in a myriad of contexts with distinct opportunities and constraints. Diverse contexts and actors necessitate diverse behavior. Despite this feature of the real-world, 'It is odd that heterogeneity does not play a greater role in economic models' (Kirman, 2006). Much of economic theory has been built on the notion of representative actors (Hartley, 1996; Marshall, 1920), and empirical work is often implicitly or explicitly concerned with mean impacts (Carneiro et al., 2002). In recent years, theoretical considerations have been evolving to consider actors' heterogeneity, especially when aggregating microeconomic actors into macroeconomic models (Cristelli, Pietronero, and Chapter

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Risk, shocks, and markets : Theory and evidence from agricultural systems in low and middle income countries

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Cooperation and Conflict at the Horn of Africa: A New Regional Bloc Between Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia and Its Consequences for Eastern Africa

Henneberg

Stapel

2020

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In January 2020, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia proposed to form a new regional bloc, occasionally referred to as the Horn of Africa Cooperation (HoAC). This article assesses which factors have contributed to making this proposal and contemplates potential effects for the complex security challenges, political tensions among the neighbours, and existing institutional environment in the region. Drawing on the scholarship on comparative regionalism and overlapping regionalism, we show that a genuine interest to independently address security challenges in the Horn of Africa, as well as domestic concerns, are core motivations for the leaders in all three states. However, the HoAC proposal bears the risk of further alienating partners in the region and undermning security efforts of other regional organisations, most importantly the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, the African Union, and the Eastern Africa Standby Force. Thus, the promises and pitfalls of this new bloc could shape the regional architecture and cause new political challenges in the region.

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Ethiopia, Somalia, and the Ogaden: Still a Running Sore at the Heart of the Horn of Africa

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Risk, shocks, and markets : Theory and evidence from agricultural systems in low and middle income countries

Risk, shocks, and markets : Theory and evidence from agricultural systems in low and middle income countries

Cooperation and Conflict at the Horn of Africa: A New Regional Bloc Between Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia and Its Consequences for Eastern Africa

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