Prospects for Adaptive and Sustainable Livelihoods for the Indigenous Peoples of Africa

About Costantinos Berhutesfa

Costantinos is a professor of public policy and institutional reforms at the School of Graduate Studies at the Addis Ababa University Ethiopia and is currently a trustee of the African Centre for Humanitarian Action. Until recently he worked as Senior Policy Adviser to the United Nations in New York and several African countries and as a chairperson and member of the African Union Advisory Board on the Convention to Prevent and Combat Corruption. He chairs the board of several civil society and humanitarian organisations.He has undertaken extensive research on governance policy and sustainable livelihood development studies in twenty-six African countries. His recent books include: Unleashing Africa's Resilience: Pan Africanist Renaissance in The African Century; The Green Society and Climate Change Adaptation Developmental Governance Measures underpinning Sustainable Resource Management and Stemming State Fragility Failure and Collapse: a human security perspective.