Ethiopia
New Publication: Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Ethiopia
Cochrane, L. and Gecho, Y. (2016) The Dynamics of Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity in Southern Ethiopia (p. 139-148). In Responses to Disasters and Climate Change: Understanding Vulnerability and Fostering Resilience, edited by M. Companion and M. Chaiken. CRC Press: Boca Raton. Abstract Agriculture accounts for more than 40% of the Ethiopian economy, 85% of all […]
Tags: #Adaptive Capacity #Agency #Ethiopia #Smallholders #Vulnerability
New Publication: Debt & Rural Development (Ethiopia)
Cochrane, L. and Thornton, A. (2017) A Socio-Cultural Analysis of Smallholder Borrowing and Debt in Southern Ethiopia. Journal of Rural Studies 49: 69-77. Abstract This paper combines qualitative and quantitative research methods in an exploratory study of borrowing and debt in rural southern Ethiopia in order to understand the complexities of the rural finance system […]
Tags: #Debt #Development Studies #Ethiopia #Indebtedness #Rural Development
People of the Plow
James McCann’s People of the Plow (1995) presents the agricultural history of Ethiopia from 1800 to 1990. While historical, it is also in many ways anthropological, particularly in the parts wherein the author draws on years of fieldwork. What I found particularly interesting in the book is the broader discourse within which the book is […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Anthropology #Ethiopia #History #Politics
Post-doc: Groundwater Futures in Sub-Saharan Africa (IDS)
This position will be based at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK, and will contribute to testing and applying an inclusive, transparent and scientifically-informed Pathways Approach to inform groundwater management decision-making, with a particular focus on the Upper Awash Basin in Ethiopia, in partnership with GroFutures colleagues at the International Water Management Institute and […]
Tags: #Development Studies #Ethiopia #Groundwater Management #Institute of Development Studies #International development
Post-doc: African city periphery
A new international research project focussed on lives at the urban periphery: You will make an important contribution to a 3-year research project which focusses upon experiences of infrastructural investment on the peripheries of three city-regions in Africa. The primary objective is to understand how urban change in the peripheries of African cities, focusing on infrastructural investments […]
Tags: #Ethiopia #Governance #Infrastructure #South Africa #Urban
Ethiopia’s Safety Net: Power, Politics and Practice
Cochrane, L. and Tamiru, Y. (2016) Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Program: Power, Politics and Practice. Journal of International Development 28(5): 649-665. Abstract With one third of the population living in poverty and millions experiencing chronic food insecurity, the government of Ethiopia faces difcult and complex challenges. One of the most robust and effective social protection […]
Tags: #Ethiopia #Participation #Politics #Power #Productive Safety Net Program
At Congress2016 as a SSHRC Storyteller
Presented at Congress2016 on May 30th as a SSHRC Storyteller Finalist.
Tags: #Congress2016 #Ethiopia #Food Security #SSHRC #Stages of Food Security
New Publication [In Press] In the International Journal of Drug Policy
Cochrane, L. and O’Regan, D. (2016) Legal Harvest and Illegal Trade: Trends, Challenges and Options in Khat Production in Ethiopia. International Journal of Drug Policy. Abstract The production of khat in Ethiopia has boomed over the last two decades, making the country the world’s leading source. Khat is now one of Ethiopia’s largest crops by […]
Tags: #Ethiopia #Khat #Policy #Trafficking
Facilitating Systemic Change: PEPFAR and Healthcare in Ethiopia
Academics tend to focus on the negatives in international development, not giving as much attention and space to reflect on what has worked well. I previously wrote about a small-scale agricultural project. Here is a brief overview of a large-scale, long-term project that facilitated systemic change: The same year that I first arrived in Ethiopia, in […]
Tags: #Ethiopia #Healthcare #HIV/AIDS #PEPFAR #Systematic Change
U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia (McVety, 2012)
On US foreign aid: “In its most optimistic moments, the U.S. government truly believed that by doing good it could indeed do well. The problem is that foreign aid seems to have done more harm than it has good, which means that the United States has not done nearly as well as it hoped.” (p. […]
Tags: #Ethiopia #Expectations of Development #Foreign Aid #Foreign Policy #politics of famine
About me
Logan Cochrane
Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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