Community participation: Greening the Aba Gerima watershed in Ethiopia
The Aba Gerima watershed covers the upper portion of Lake Tana sub-basin in north-western Ethiopia. Agriculture is its mainstay, with cereal cultivation Read more...
New study: CGIAR innovations reach nearly 80% of Ethiopia’s rural households
An independent study published last month has documented the extensive reach of CGIAR-related agricultural innovations in Ethiopia over the past 20 years. The study Read more...
With technology and trust, we can move mountains
If you’re trying to win the trust of a community, you don’t start by building rat houses on their land. But that’s just what some residents living on Ethiopia’s Yewol mountain worried scientists were doing. They saw the slow construction of stone-pile terraces along their mountainside. And they were suspicious...
Reaffirming an old alliance with Ethiopia for better natural resource management
Collaboration with Ethiopian institutes on systems-based research programs – including joint projects in soil fertility management, watershed management, dryland irrigation systems, rangeland Read more...
Restore land to sustain life: Inspiration from Yewol for all of us
Terraced mountainsides growing a range of crops – cereals, forage and vegetables like carrot and garlic that the people had never seen before; and a wide variety of trees (even apples!) – are a common sight in Yewol today.....
First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety In a first, the National Variety Release Read more...
Decadal experiences in harnessing chickpea value chain in Ethiopia
Over 6 million households benefit through the years of the Tropical Legumes Project In early 1970s, a journey to improve Ethiopia’s chickpea Read more...
Two-fold increase in varietal adoption in seven years – a chickpea tale from Ethiopia
Adoption of improved chickpea varieties increased more than two-fold in seven years, shows data from more than 600 households in Ethiopia. “In Read more...
Modern, cutting-edge, collaborative – management of breeding data receives a boost across Africa
A hackathon, data migration and capacity building – it was a busy month for ICRISAT’s efforts to modernize databases and strengthen breeding Read more...
Bridging two continents: Ethiopian Ministerial delegation visits India
A high-level ministerial delegation from Ethiopia recently visited India to observe and learn from best practices in dryland agriculture, rainwater conservation techniques Read more...