The Impact of the Use of New Technologies on Farmers’ Wheat Yield in...
Source: Flickr/CIMMYT This study examines the impact of the Wheat Initiative technology package on 482 wheat growers in the highlands of Ethiopia. The package includes improved wheat seed, a lower...
View ArticleFrom Farm to Table
Looking at the wheat and malt barley value chains in Ethiopia Nick Minot and James Warner meeting with a group of farmers. Photo credit: IFPRI-REAP. Wheat is a staple for Ethiopia, but, about 20-35...
View ArticleDirect Seed Marketing Program in Ethiopia in 2013
Source: Flickr/ILRI (Stevie Mann) An Operational Evaluation to Guide Seed-Sector Reform In 2013 the Bureaus of Agriculture in the regional states of Amhara, Oromia, and Southern Nations, Nationalities,...
View ArticleIFPRI trains local analysts in the use of a new multi-market model
Photo credit: IFPRI-REAP Over the past several years, the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) have launched programs to boost the production of...
View ArticleQ&A with Shahid Rashid: A look back at 2014
What are some of the major projects from 2014? I would highlight four main projects this year. The first is the wheat evaluation that we did for the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA),...
View ArticleThe Third Edition of REAP’s Project Newsletter
Dear Readers, As I look back at the work that we have accomplished this past year, I am very grateful to our team in Ethiopia and Washington, D.C. for their hard work and dedication. The partnership...
View ArticlePublic Wheat Imports to Ethiopia since 2008
A wheat farmer in Koka village, Ethiopia training his cows to thresh wheat. Photo credit: Flickr/Ollivier CIFOR Public interventions in the cereal markets of Ethiopia drastically declined after the...
View ArticleEthiopia’s First Blend: The story of Ethiopia’s first fertilizer blending...
Workers at the new fertilizer blending facility run by the Becho-Woliso Farmers' Cooperative Union in Oromia. Photo Credit: ATA Photo Credit: ATA "Soil is the resource base for survival," said Prof....
View ArticleThe Right Stuff
Farmers will now have access to fertilizer blends that are tailored to their soil's needs. Photo credit: Flickr/Stevie Mann Ethiopian farmers have long relied on just two kinds of fertilizer to boost...
View ArticleThe Next Steps for Gender Research in Ethiopia
There is virtually no data on female farmers living in a male-headed household says Warner. To move gender research forward, this information gap must be filled. Photo credit: Flickr/ Eileen Delhi In...
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