Browsing by Author "Tilahun, Yared"

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    Analysis of the Exisisting Ethiopian Bitration Law in Light With the Uncitral Model Law on Arbitration
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-01) Tilahun, Yared; Keneaa, Zekarias (Associate Professor)
    Obviously, arbitration is one of the well known amicable dispute resolution schemes recognized, virtually, in all modern polities across the globe. Currently, the power given for the arbitral tribunal started to contest the ordinary jurisdiction of regular courts especially in regard to international commercial areas because of the parties’ agreement to avoid or minimize the intervention of courts in their business dealings. Accordingly, many disputantsL avoid the recourse to national courts thereby settling disputes arising in the course performance of their respective obligations. Nowadays, countries are striving towards adopting arbitration friendly legislation with the view to accommodate the highly changing situation of the globalization in the area of commerce. Patently, Ethiopia cannot be different from the rest in promulgating more comprehensive and holistic arbitral legal regime to have an enabling environment for foreign direct investment (FDI). The existing, Ethiopian arbitration law seems to be obsolete and inadequate in dealing with the highly booming situation of commercial globalization. In Ethiopia the 1960 civil code and the 1965 civil procedure are the outdated substantive and procedural laws respectively, save for AACCSA (Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce and Sectorial Associations) institutional arbitral rules, put in place to regulate the subject matter. Unlike Ethiopia, most nations including developing countries are doing better either in amending their arbitral regime or acceding to modern arbitration conventions like the New York and Washington convention on arbitration to attract the seat and the sight of arbitral institutions and investment actors, too. Besides, the role of UNCITRAL model law in international commercial arbitration especially in harmonizing the disparate arbitration rules of nations regardless of the political and economic `ideologies in an intricate and palatable fashion cannot be neglected .The intricate nature of the model law largely lies on the constructive involvement of the regular courts in arbitration process
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    Challenges and Prospects of Vertical Farming for Sustainable Urban Development: The Case of Nifasilk-Lafto Sub-City of Addis Ababa
    (Addis Ababa University, 2020-06) Tilahun, Yared; Gudeta PhD, Kumela
    Urban community which community? enjoys food security when all people, at all times, have access to nutritious, safe, personally acceptable and culturally appropriate foods, produced in ways that are environmentally sound and socially just. One of the means for food security is urban agriculture. This research focuses on urban agriculture with a particular to Challenges and Prospects of Vertical Farming for Sustainable Urban Development: The Case of NifasilkLafto Sub-City of selected areas of Addis Ababa. The general objective of the study is to explore the importance, challenge and prospects of vertical farming for sustainable urban agriculture development for food security. Data was gathered from both primary and secondary data gathered through qualitative and quantitative approaches. Representative sample household from a total of 414 urban farmers in the sub city 90 representative farmers were randomly selected. For the qualitative data nine key informant interviews were also conducted using a purposive sampling technique from the relevant government organizations. A semi-structured questionnaire, key informant interview ??? observation type of observation using photography, document analysis, and satellite images were the methods employed for data collection. The collected data was analyzed using a descriptive statistics for quantitative and qualitative data for narrative analysis for the quantitative and qualitative data respectively. The finding of the study indicated that urban agriculture activity has effect on the natural environment especially on soil erosion and water pollution as well as poses potential health risk due to contamination of vegetables with toxic substances. Informal settlers occupied reserved area for urban agriculture purpose by squatters. As well as urban agriculture activities in the protected area for green development and uses are the two major challenges identified in the study area. The study discusses the role of urban agriculture in connection with nutrition and food security, income generation and job opportunity, environmental improvement and sustainable urban development. Thus vertical farming as a new technological approach in urban agriculture activity should be promoted as it can solve technically and technologically the urban community problems.