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Ethiopia, Canada agree to step up economic cooperation
Bilateral economic cooperation and security initiatives being discussed at the highest levels between nations at the G-20 Summit Friday, 06 September 2013 Ethiopia and Canada have reached agreement to...
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Overcoming productivity bottlenecks via research
Line sowing of teff has brought tremendous change in production (pictured, above) The government has been pursuing policies aimed at boosting agricultural production and productivity. Increasing the...
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The Great Potash Power Play
By Gabe Collins - August 23, 2013 Critical to improving farm yields, potash is increasingly a strategic product for Asia’s largest economies. Potash is perhaps the world’s most strategic...
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The hierarchy of poor: the tension between favoring smallholder farmers or...
by Nadia Viswanath Overview: illustrating the challenge in supporting producers and consumers through agricultural policies A pressing challenge facing Ethiopia today is one that has long been a...
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Chinese shoemakers tighten belt to invest millions in Ethiopia
International shoe giant Huajian International has been praised by the Ethiopian government for the establishment of a shoe manufacturing factory in just three months. Zhnag Hua Rong, owner and...
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Exploring the “other” and second most plentiful Allana Potash...
Carnallite: A Dual Market Opportunity By Vivien Diniz2 – Exclusive to Potash Investing News In July, Potash Investing News took a look at the four primary types of potash5: sylvinite, polyhalite,...
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East African Infrastructure Development, Part 3: Ethiopian Surface Transport...
November 13, 2013 | 1109 GMT Summary Editor’s Note: This is a four-part series on the development of transport infrastructure in East Africa as the region looks to expand its economy and increase...
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In line with Ethiopia’s priorities
Capital Ethiopia Interviews Christian Yoka, Regional Director of the AFD November 12, 2013 The French Development Agency known as the Agence Française de Developement (AFD) is involved in various...
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Pawe soybean research glimmering new hope for ensuring food security
Conducting research and releasing improved seed varieties has a paramount contribution toward ensuring food self-sufficiency. It also enables to produce market competitive agricultural products which...
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United States assist Ethiopia’s urban emergency response programme
The United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), signed a partnership agreement on November 13 to improve urban emergency preparedness and...
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Revitalizing agriculture in semi-arid areas-role of research
Covering 6.5 million square kilometers of land in 55 countries in Sub-Saharan-Africa and Asia, the semi-arid or dryland tropics is inhabited by over two billion people, out of which some 644 million...
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Dispatch from Addis Ababa
12 November 2013 By Michael Elliott ONE’s Board has just returned from Ethiopia, where we held our biannual meeting. I’d never been to Africa’s second-most populous nation before, and spent a...
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Bono: “Information, and the knowledge that flows from it, has enormous power...
11 November 2013 By Bono On 8 November, Bono presented the ONE Africa Award, which each year honours an African civil society organisation, before an audience of media leaders and journalist at the...
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The World Bank’s promise
Having been assigned to head the World Bank’s country office in Addis Ababa, Guang Zhe Chen has spent two years frequently visiting sites where the Bank extends money for the projects of the...
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Critics sow the seeds of doubt in divisive agricultural policy
For Alemetu Deme, a farmer who shook hands with the Prime Minister, everything is possible, and she expects more than a hundred quintals per hectare from her wheat harvest. She has worked hard to...
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Tripartite Free Trade Area: An opportunity not a threat
The tripartite arrangement of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, East African Community and Southern Africa Development Community (COMESA-EAC–SADC) is the most exciting trade and...
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Fertilizers Dysfunction: Nation Hopes on New Technology – Blended
Written by Yetneberk Tadele (links added by cambodine) For the last twelve years in a raw, Mustafa Siraj, 39, a father of three has used fertilizers on his three hectares of farming land in order to...
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18 November 2013 Business News Briefs (Updated)
New Proclamation to Grant More Responsibility to Trade Practices Authority The proclamation, which will also see the authority renamed, has been supported by the United Nations Conference on Trade and...
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19 November 2013 Developmental News Briefs
Gibe III hydro-electric dam 79% complete The Gibe III hydro-electric dam currently under-construction on the lower course of the Omo River is nearing completion, according to the project manager....
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A step forward to properly manage biomass energy sources
Dung cakes (above, pictured) are the most widely used biomass energy in Ethiopia Although Ethiopia is endowed with a variety of alternative energy resources such as hydro, wind, geothermal, and solar,...
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