Emma Orchardson Addis Abeba, March 01/2019 – Despite formal decentralization, agricultural services in Ethiopia are generally “top-down,” claim the authors of a recently published paper on gender and agricultural innovation. “Extension services,” they explain, “are supply-driven, with off-the-shelf technologies transferred to farmers without expectation of further adaptation.” Drawing on GENNOVATE …

Dagim T., for Addis Standard Addis Abeba, February 07/2019 – On May 19, 2018, the Ethiopian government gave its Attorney General the green light to initiate an international arbitration proceeding against a company holding a series of European patents directed at the grain teff. And on November 21, 2018, a …

Addis Abeba, February 04/2019 – Gates Foundation has awarded, CABI, an international not-for-profit organization working to provide information to solve problems in agriculture and environment, $1.49 m to help boost food security in Ethiopia and India “through better access to data on soil health, agronomy and fertilizers,” a statement sent …