Ethiopian farmer Nuri Awel was quite skeptical about the Israeli project Fair Planet, a nonprofit that gives smallholder farmers access to cutting-edge seed technology and shows them how to get the ...

Best seed supply is improving agricultural productivity. The agricultural policy framework of Ethiopia, which is known as 'Agricultural Development Led Industrialization (ADLI)', sets out ...

with plans to begin testing the Ethiopian Seed Platform (ESP) later this year. The Ministry of Agriculture has announced its commitment to prioritize digital agriculture, with plans to begin ...

Ethiopia has introduced a programme to improve food security that combines scientific knowledge with local know how, as new community-based seed banks and training centres try to help farmers meet ...

Ethiopia leads the way in preserving crop seeds by engaging farming communities in the effort, and making the exchange of seeds part of village life and culture, reports Claire Provost. But now it's ...

The Chefe Donsa seed bank is just one of 13 established in different climatic areas of the country. The nation's central seed bank, which the Ethiopian Institute of Biodiversity set up in Addis ...

With crop failure a key cause of the 1984 famine, Ethiopia has set up local seed banks to help farmers adapt to climate shifts EJERE WOREDA, Ethiopia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thirty years ...

Ethiopia, the world’s fourth-largest sesame grower, may see earnings from exports of pulses, oil seeds and spices rise by a third to more than $900 million this year. Africa’s largest coffee ...

WAGENINGEN, Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Solynta and PepsiCo’s Ethiopia-based Foods Unit, Senselet Food Processing PLC (Senselet), have launched a project to introduce hybrid true potato seeds ...

But every rose has its thorns: now there’s greater scrutiny and more red tape. At the fifth biennial HortiFlora Expo Ethiopia in March, nearly 90 exhibitors gathered in Addis Ababa’s Millennium Hall.