This policy is directed towards addressing the country’s grave food security condition. It recognises the need to prioritize agriculture to drive the rapid and sustained growth of the economy. It also strives to actively mobilize rural citizens as they make up the bulk of the country’s working population.

The settlement authority is established as an autonomous public authority. The proclamation defines Settlement as the act of establishing people in agriculture or related activities, while a settler is defined as any person whom the authority settles. It highlights the capacities of the authority, its powers and duties, organization structure, board members and their meetings, as well as the objectives of the authority.

The Proclamation stipulates that all rural lands shall be the collective property of the Ethiopian people. It abolishes private ownership of rural land and declares that Peasant Associations are in charge of the redistribution, cultivation, administration etc. of rural lands. The Proclamation details: Public Ownership of Rural Lands, Establishment of Associations for the Implementation of the Proclamation, Powers and Functions of the Minister of Land Reform and Administration, Communal and Nomadic Lands, and General Provisions.

The 274th proclamation of 2002 establishes the cooperatives commission as an autonomous federal government organ. The commission shall be accountable to the ministry of rural development. The objective of the Commission is to enable rural and urban working people to solve the economic and social problems they face by themselves and become self-reliant by being organized in cooperatives different in type and standard depending on the local resources”.”””

This poverty analysis report hopes to update the poverty index of the country, national, regionally as well as locally. The study uses data obtained from the Household Income Consumption and Expenditure (HICE) Survey and Welfare Monitoring Systems (WMS) in 2015/2016.

A proclamation to ratify the Cartegena protocol on biosafety. The protocol was adopted on the 20th day of January 2000. The Environmental Protection Authority is authorized to take, in cooperation with the appropriate Federal, Regional and city government organs, actions necessary to implement the Protocol.

The cooperative societies proclamation of 1998 is amended in the form of articles and sub-articles deletion.

The Proclamation defines the right to acquire, free of charge, rural land by peasants, pastoralists and semi-pastoralists engaged in agriculture; it also makes provisions for the equal rights of women concerning land and provides for the protection of such rights. It avails rural youths, who wish to engage in agriculture the right to get and use rural land which is possessed by the community or government. The Proclamation also defines the special rights of other disadvantaged persons.

The GTP policy matrix is a sub-set of the main Growth and Transformation Plan of the Government. It contains a series of benchmarks to aid the monitoring and evaluation of the various targets and priorities set in the main document.

The GTP policy matric is a sub-set of the government’s Second Growth and Transformation Plan. It contains a series of benchmarks to aid the monitoring and evaluation of the various targets and priorities set in the main document.

The constitution of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia grants the state and its people exclusive rights to the ownership and control of lands, as well as the empowerment to administer lands and other natural resources. This proclamation states the general provisions on land administration, contents of a land administration law, conditions of land administration, and miscellaneous provisions.

This is a revision to the 1997 charter proclamation. The charter strives to ensure the city of Addis Ababa becomes a suitable place to live and work by all modern measurable standards. This becomes quite important given the city’s status as the capital city of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the seat of the African Union and several international organizations. It highlights important details including; boundary, working language, rights of residence, elections, as well as the rights, objectives, organization, powers, and functions of the city government.

These regulations are under the expropriation of landholdings for public purposes and payment of compensation proclamation 455 of 2005. It contains details on assessment of compensation for buildings, fences, crops, trees, relocated property, burial-ground, protected grass, and permanent improvement on rural lands. It also chiefly addresses the specific formulas to arrive at the different amounts of compensation payable per the relevant proclamation and regulations.

The council of ministers regulations to provide for the establishment of the Ethiopian development research institute as an autonomous institution of the federal government, accountable to the office of the prime minister. It has a sole and clear objective of identifying and carrying out research, surveys, and studies for the national development of the country. It also highlights the organs of the institute, its powers and duties, and books of account, among others.

The council of ministers recognises the need for a harmonised disaster management system that is responsive to pre, during, and post-disaster yearnings. The regulations contained therein also provides a legal framework for disaster risk management approaches, implementation plans, and the necessary bodies involved in the holistic process. The national disaster risk management commission is thus established as an autonomous federal office, accountable to the office of the prime minister.

This document is the second phase of the poverty reduction strategy program (PRSP). It maps out the direction the country wishes to explore in its drive to attain food security, eradicate poverty, and achieve the millennium development goals (MDGs).

The establishment of the emergency food security reserve administration serves as a foresight towards mitigating against disasters at their onset, till other emergency sources can be mobilized. It highlights the sources of the reserve, ownership, reserve type and size, and the organization of the administration. The agency is to be supervised by the disaster prevention and preparedness commission.

The regulations are for the re-establishment of the Ethiopian National accreditation office, as an autonomous federal government office, and placed under the supervision of the ministry of science and technology. The office is to work towards facilitating the acceptance of Ethiopian products, locally and internationally.

The PASDEP acknowledges the various constraints faced by the Ethiopian economy as a result of poor policy coordination and dwindling levels of investment. The plan, therefore, seeks to facilitate the development of agriculture along the lines of human capacity development, input supply, technology adoption, and infrastructure provision.

This serves as the regulation for the establishment of the national planning council and the national planning commission of Ethiopia. The council is to be an autonomous federal government organ accountable to the prime minister. It contains the powers and duties of the council, its meetings, as well as its members, among other things. The council is saddled with the responsibility of producing long term national plans and frameworks for the development of the country.