Demissie Belayneh

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research | CGIAR · International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)

The first large-scale vaccination campaign using needle-free jet injectors to administer fractional doses of inactivated poliovirus vaccine (fIPV) was conducted in Karachi, Pakistan, in February 2019. Data on acceptability of jet injectors were collected from 610 vaccinators and 4898 caregivers during the first four days of the campaign. Of those w...

Recently there is an increased attention among policy and research practitioners on the link between school feeding programs (SFP) and agricultural development. Through purchases and procurement of locally produced foods, SFP are thought to enhance the domestic production and demand for food and stimulate local agricultural economy. Quality protein...

Limited evidence is available on the associations of high-quality protein and energy intake, serum transthyretin (TTR), serum amino acids and serum insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) with linear growth of young children. Data collected during the baseline of a randomized control trial involving rural Ethiopian children aged 6–35 months (n = 873)...

Zinc deficiency is a major public health problem in Ethiopia and other African countries, affecting nutrition and health outcomes particularly in young children and women of reproductive age, but some widely-used interventions such as food fortification can be less effective in reaching rural populations. Recent soil fertility mapping initiatives h...

Background Linear growth failure is the most common form of undernutrition. Childhood stunting impairs human development and health and productivity in adulthood. Ethiopia has a high prevalence of stunting, with diets reliant on staple crops with low nutrient content. Maize is the most highly produced crop in Ethiopia. Unfortunately, conventional m...

Background: For impact of nutritionally improved biofortified crops, consumer acceptance specifically by women and children is necessary when target beneficiaries are young children. The objective was to assess women's and children's acceptance of a biofortified crop, quality protein maize (QPM), for complementary feeding in rural Ethiopia. Resul...

The main objective of this paper is to explore the extent to which government policies geared towards “transforming” pastoral way of living into sedentary agriculturalists in pastoral communities of southern Ethiopia haderoded social capital, customary institutions,and livelihoodsand deteriorated the living conditions of the very people they are in...

The way human action reshape the environment pose a new cycle of mutual determination on the way people create and re-create their livelihood in line with the changes in their environment . This must be analyzed in terms of changes not only in their ecology but also in the emerging new social dynamics. In line with this assertion, this study examin...