Simret Yasabu
Shared responsibilities and equal economic benefits
Capacity development
Small-scale agricultural mechanization service provision model supports women’s empowerment in the Ethiopian agriculture sector.
Leasing scheme helps farmers purchase small-scale agricultural machinery
Innovations
The initiative increases agricultural productivity and enhances food security in Ethiopia.
CIMMYT is ready to support Ethiopia’s move toward — and beyond — wheat self-sufficiency
Nutrition, health and food security
Meeting with Ethiopian researchers and policymakers outlines path forward for cooperation.
Smallholder farmers’ multi-front strategy combats rapidly evolving wheat rust in Ethiopia
Nutrition, health and food security
Researchers found farmers who increased both the area growing resistant varieties and the number of wheat varieties grown per season saw the biggest yield increases.
Ethiopian policymakers consider wider use of DNA fingerprinting
Innovations
This tool allows to identify varieties used by farmers and to track the adoption and impact of improved crops.
Ethiopian maize breeders will directly apply knowledge gained from training
Capacity development
STMA project training focused on latest developments in maize research and data collection.
Digitalizing African agriculture: paving the way to Africa’s progress through transforming the agriculture sector
Innovations
AGRF 2019 discussed digital transformation as key driver of sustainable food systems in Africa.
CIMMYT and CGIAR staff join Ethiopia’s record-breaking tree-planting campaign
Climate adaptation and mitigation
People across the country planted more than 350 million trees in a day to fight deforestation and climate change.
Ethiopian farmers weatherproof their livelihoods
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Farmers boost their climate resilience and make money as they phase out a 25-year-old maize variety and replace it with drought-tolerant BH661 seeds.
Research, innovation, partnerships, impact
Innovations
Knowledge share fair highlights CGIAR contributions to the Ethiopian agriculture sector.
Sustaining the production and demand of Quality Protein Maize in Ethiopia
Nutrition, health and food security
As the Nutritious Maize for Ethiopia (NuME) project comes to an end, partners draw plans to extend its impact.
Ethiopia calls for continued collaboration to increase wheat production and meet nutritional and food security
Capacity development
CIMMYT and EIAR officially closed a wheat seed scaling project that benefitted 131,132 households.
