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By Seyoum Yunkura Hameso† Abstract Today, developing countries face distinctive challenges of development such as to poverty reduction, growth and economic development. The growing concern with climate  change presents additional challenges and opportunities to these countries. The paper  explores development possibilities/challenges in the age of climate change on the basis of  selected review of the literature on mainstreaming climate change to development. The  themes under discussion relate to on-going empirical research on vulnerability and  adaptionsto climate change in Ethiopia, the case of smallholder farmers in Sidama. * Read more: http://roar.uel.ac.uk/1936/1/Seyoum%20-%20climate%20change%20Sidama.pdf

Hameso, Seyoum  ‘Development challenges in the age of climate change: the case of Sidama’,  Workshop on the Economy of Southern Ethiopia . Hawassa University, Department of Economics, 1 March 2012. Hawassa, Ethiopia: Ethiopian Economics Association. Abstract Today, developing countries face distinctive challenges of development such as to poverty reduction, growth and economic development. The growing concern with climate change presents additional challenges and opportunities to these countries. The paper explores development possibilities/challenges in the age of climate change on the basis of selected review of the literature on mainstreaming climate change to development. The themes under discussion relate to on-going empirical research on vulnerability and adaptions to climate change in Ethiopia, the case of smallholder farmers in Sidama. Read more:  http://roar.uel.ac.uk/1936/

  Commemorating the 11th anniversary of Sidama Victims of Atrocity on May 25, 2013 in London at ‘GHARWEG’ Training Centre, 5 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7XW The Sidama Community ‘UK’ will Honour about 115 Courageous, Determined and Law-abiding Sidama Men, Women and Children who have been Cold Bloodedly massacred by the current ruthless  TPLF/EPRDF’s regime in Loqqe village at the outskirt of Sidama capital -Hawassa on May 24, 2002 whilst peacefully demonstrating demanding their Constitutional rights to regional self determination- the quest which the Sidama nation is unlawfully and blatantly denied to this date. Our community invites Friends of Sidama nation, others Ethiopians whose peoples are subjected to similar inhuman and tragic treatments by the said barbaric regime to join the Sidama Community in paying their respect to our fallen martyrs’. As we commemorate the 11th anniversary of Sidama victims of atrocity on May 25, 2013 in London at aforementioned loca

The Sidama Community in the UK (S.C.UK) commemorates the 11th anniversary of the 115 courageous Sidama men, women and children who were massacred by the TPLF/EPRDF regime in May 2002. They invited the Oromo community to attend and pay tribute to those fallen martyrs. Please attend this memorial ceremony to show our solidarity with Sidama people and to remember those who sacrificed their lives for freedom and democracy. Date:  Saturday, 25 May 2013, 10:00am- 01:00pm Venue:  GHARWEG, Training Centre 5 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7XW London  Qeerroo  Activists http://gadaa.com/oduu/19949/2013/05/13/sidamas-loqee-massacre-commemoration-in-london-may-25-2013/

Ten years after the Ethiopian famine of 2003, when international food aid rushed in to feed 14 million people, another World Food Program (WFP) tent has been erected on an open field. But this isn't a scene of food distribution. It is a scene of food purchase. The action happens on the grounds of the Sidama Elto Farmers' Cooperative Union in Awassa, Ethiopia. Sidama Elto is one of 16 cooperative unions in Ethiopia that have signed forward contracts with the WFP for the purchase of more than 28,000 metric tons of maize grown by their smallholder farmer members. The maize, which is part of 112,000 tons of food the WFP purchased in Ethiopia last year, will be used for WFP relief distributions in the country. Ten years ago, many of those farmers and their families were receiving food aid from the WFP. One of the major lessons in agricultural development over the past decade is this: Markets Matter. The 2003 famine tragically, and incomprehensibly, followed two years of bu