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Food Security
Commentary: Ethiopia’s acceptance of GMOs turns decades of pan-African environmental leadership on its head
Teshome Hunduma Addis Abeba, April 23/2020 – In 2015, the government of Ethiopia opened up the country to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by loosening the safeguards built into the 2009 biosafety law that were meant to protect against the risks posed by GMOs, and in 2018 approved commercial cultivation of …
News Alert: Desert Locusts drive one million Ethiopians to food insecurity
Addis Abeba, April 13/2020 – About one million individuals in Ethiopia have been affected by the Desert Locust invasion and require emergency food assistance, a newly released joint assessment on the Impact of Desert Locusts on Food Security and Livelihoods in Ethiopia said. Of these, about 390 000 are in …
News: IOM appeals for US$77.6 m to help more than 1.2 m internally displaced Ethiopians
Addis Abeba, March 14/2020 – The International Organization for Migration (IOM), launched an appeal yesterday for USD77.6 million to provide humanitarian assistance to more than 1.2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs), returnees, host community members and migrants in Ethiopia. “The East African [state] faces some of the most complex migration …
