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News: News: Drought-Resistant White Beans Bring Hope to Smallholder Farmers in Ethiopia
620 reads Ethiopia is one of the world’s largest exporters of white beans, most commonly used to make baked beans. But, severe drought in the country is threatening bean production and the livelihoods of the smallholder farmers who are responsible for the majority of the white bean crop. More ...more
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News: News: Equipping the locals for the New Extensionist Training of Trainers to facilitate multi-stakeholder platforms & resource mobilization in Ethiopia. By Samson Eshetu, Hlamalani Ngwenya, Silim Nahdy and Kristin Davis
Read more details in the attached document Events and Proceedings Agriculture ToT training on the New Extensionist in Ethiopia.pdf Ethiopia <a href="/users/samson-eshetu" title="View user profile." class="username" xml:lang="" ...more
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News: News: The contribution of ICTs to the Ethiopian agricultural extension system: a review of literature on agriculture knowledge management
full article here. Innovation Agriculture Communication Knowledge Management Ethiopia <a href="/users/afaas-support-0" title="View user profile." class="username" xml:lang="" about="/users/afaas-support-0" typeof="sioc:UserAccount" ...more
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News: News: The voice of Extension raised at the Extension Week in Addis Ababa
568 reads The 2nd edition of the AFAAS Africa Wide-Agricultural Extension Week (AAEW 2015) was held from 12th-16th October 2015 in Addis- Ababa, Ethiopia. Participants came up with a final declaration in order to reboost Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services in Africa. more Best Practices ...more
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News: News: Latest publications released by the FARA Secretariat
5 reads Please visit the FARA website to access the latest publications released by the secretariat. You may also click on each publication to download. Getachew Ahmed and Tigabu Degu, (2019). Adoption of Technologies and Crop Productivity in Ethiopia: The Role of Agricultural Information. ...more
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Resource: Resource: ROAD MAP FOR MAINSTREAMING GENDER INTO RAS FOR POVERTY REDUCTION IN AFRICA.
236 reads This report synthesizes findings from seven country scoping studies on gender‐responsive approaches to rural advisory services (RAS) in Africa. The studies, which were conducted in Benin, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Nigeria, Sudan, and Uganda, were meant to identify existing policies, ...more
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Resource: Resource: African Soil Seminar- Soil Restoration for Achieving the 2063 and 2030 Agendas in Africa: Linking Global Ambitions to Local Needs
convened by the Global Soil Forum at the Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) Potsdam, and ICRAF, with support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. It was co-hosted by ministries in charge of agriculture of Kenya, Ethiopia, Benin and Burkina Faso, as ...more
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News: News: Tackling invasive species to protect farmer incomes and livelihoods
moving across the African continent, decimating crops in Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. It has recently reached Nigeria, where a state of emergency has been declared – the pest has destroyed an estimated US$5.1 million of tomatoes and forced at least one major tomato processing plant to close. ...more