Worms transforming waste to wealth – Pioneering vermicomposting in the Arsi Zone, Ethiopia
By Guta Eshatu Vermiculture (stemming from the Latin word ‘vermis’, meaning worms) uses earthworms to transform organic waste into high-quality … Continued
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Rural Transportation in Ethiopia: Status Quo and Ways Forward
By Getanew Tesfaw In Ethiopia, there are roughly 1.2 million vehicles, meaning that in a group of a hundred people, … Continued
Homestead poultry keeping for a vibrant rural economy
by Getanew Tesfaw Livestock and poultry are essential to strengthen the rural economies as they are serving as supplemental income … Continued
Agroforestry in Amhara, Ethiopia
By Bantamlak Wondmnow Agroforestry is a new name for a set of long-standing practices. Farmers in Amhara have immense traditional … Continued
Sustainable landscape rehabilitation: The establishment of Watershed User’s Cooperatives
By Bantamlak Wondmnow & Femke van Woesik In Ethiopia there are many succesful stories of rehabilitated watersheds through large scale … Continued
Multipurpose plantation – making productive use of watershed rehabilitation in Amhara, Ethiopia
By Bantamlak Wondmnow In Amhara, yearly successful watershed rehabilitation campaigns are carried out through the government’s mass mobilization of local … Continued
Scaling through horizontal learning: Liquid Biofertilizer take up in Oromia, Ethiopia
By Guta Eshetu Horizontal learning is peer-to-peer learning. It is how farmers learn, share new information and good practices with … Continued
The multipurpose biofertilizer
By Bella Arlman Biofertilizer is a proven effective way to increase crop yield either as an alternative to the expensive … Continued
Making farming easier: introducing new farm tools in rural Ethiopia
By Getanew Tesfaw Farming is a back breaking and hard job. Luckily, using the right tools can make it a … Continued
Regenerative home garden designs
By Marina Vara Gutierrez Well-designed rainfed home gardens can increase crop productivity and increase biodiversity. Sustainably doing this requires a … Continued
Ponds as an asset for agriculture: how to keep them full
Marijn van der Meer (MetaMeta), Femke van Woesik (MetaMeta), Nitesh Dhiman (PRADAN), Shubham Jain (MetaMeta), Lalit Kumar Nirmalkar (PRADAN), Laxmi … Continued
Establishing Ecological Based Rodent Management in Ethiopia – Part 3: Collective implementation and ways forward
By Tadesse Tilahun, Getachew Engdayehu, Bantamlak Wondmnow, and Luwieke Bosma This is the third in a series of blog posts describing the development and implementation … Continued
Establishing Ecological Based Rodent Management in Ethiopia – Part 2: Developing and testing a biological rodenticide
By Tadesse Tilahun, Getachew Engdayehu, Bantamlak Wondmnow, and Luwieke Bosma This is the second in a series of blog posts describing the development and implementation … Continued
Establishing Ecological Based Rodent Management in Ethiopia – Part 1: The potential of Farmer’s Indigenous Knowledge
By Tadesse Tilahun, Getachew Engdayehu, Bantamlak Wondmnow, and Luwieke Bosma This is the first in a series of blog posts describing the development and implementation … Continued
Getting a head-start: improved seeds and fertilizers in Oromia
by Guta Eshetu Gemechu, Girma Senbeta, Jean Marc Pace Ricci Seed is life. Seed is the starter for agricultural development. There … Continued
Innovative Feed Solutions: Prosopis based livestock feed option for the pastoral/agro-pastoral communities
by Beruk Yemane (EthioFeed) and Frank van Steenbergen (MetaMeta) It is a major scourge, a destabilizer of pastoralist lives: the … Continued
Responding to the Fertilizer Crisis
by Getachew Engdayehu, Frank van Steenbergen and Girma Senbeta The Ethiopian synthetic fertilizer system has been under much pressure with … Continued
The beauty and the pest
by Frank van Steenbergen Postcard from Krabbendijke, the Netherlands. Beautiful flower strips adorn onion and potato fields. It is beauty … Continued
Hedging Opportunities
by Frank van Steenbergen and Femke van Woezik In a landscape hedges make all the difference. This is the point … Continued
Cool it: how to change the local climate with hundreds of soil bunds
By Femke van Woesik (MetaMeta), Jackie Kemboi (Justdiggit), and Samwel Jakinda (Justdiggit). The monitoring setup was developed and implemented by … Continued