Seeds as Opportunities in Rural Ethiopia
by Jean Marc Pace June 05, 2020 Why are seeds important? Every meal ever eaten started off as seeds. Seeds … Continued
Girma Senbeta (MetaMeta Ethiopia), Getachew Engdayehu (Amhara Bureau of Agriculture), Nardos Masresha (MetaMeta Ethiopia), Guta Eshata Gemmechu (MetaMeta Ethiopia), Bantamlak Wondmnow (Amhara Bureau of Agriculture), Redeat Daniel (MetaMeta Ethiopia), Getanew Tesfaw (MetaMeta Ethiopia), Tena Gobena (Oromia Bureau of Agriculture), Mitiku Bajiga (Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture), Frank van Steenbergen (MetaMeta), and Jean Marc Pace, Femke van Woesik (MetaMeta) Imagine a large tanker sailing across the ocean. If you alter the ship's course by just one degree at the beginning of the journey, the final destination can differ by hundreds of kilometres. In other words, over time, a small change can make a huge difference. This was the intention of the Green Future Farming (GFF) program: a small engine propelling a vast vessel onto a new course. Ethiopian governance has a large and strong agricultural department with a far-reaching extension system, which is a key policy instrument for necessary changes. Over the past four years, GFF has worked together with the Bureaus… Continued
by Jean Marc Pace June 05, 2020 Why are seeds important? Every meal ever eaten started off as seeds. Seeds … Continued
by Frank van Steenbergen and Rajeshwar Mishra June 05, 2020 It is a topic that in the debate on WASH … Continued
by Karim Nawaz, Flood-based Livelihoods Network Pakistan May 28, 2020 The earliest wave of locust swarms attack was reported in … Continued
By Sukru Esin and Frank van Steenbergen May 27, 2020 Vermiculture – the use of worms to transform waste – … Continued
By Frank van Steenbergen May 26, 2020 Image: Old Road Side Inn by Edward Charles Williams 1807-1881 First, a story with … Continued
By Frank van Steenbergen and Letty Fajardo Vera May 22, 2020 Irrigation should bring wealth, not poverty. But in Turkmenistan … Continued
By Frank and Roelien van Steenbergen May 19, 2020 Postcard from Noord Brabant, the Netherlands: Coming back on a dry … Continued
Eden Toxic Postcard from Koga, Amhara, Ethiopia by Frank van Steenbergen April 23, 2020 Postcard from Koga – in Amhara … Continued
Symbiosis: Pastoralists and Farmers in Balochistan by Allah Bakhsh and Frank van Steenbergen April 21, 2020 There is a narrative … Continued
Lockdowns in rural Pakistan – what to do By Karim Nawaz April 20, 2020 Many parts of Pakistan are in … Continued
Postcard from the Beja, Akla Almahata, Eastern Sudan: Health, Water, Education, Work by Ahmed Adalbagi and Ali M.A. Elhaj March … Continued
The Ibb Water Supply Miracle of Resilience by Frank van Steenbergen March 10, 2020 It achieves nearly full recovery on … Continued
Effect of dam construction on underground flows in Jamshoro, Pakistan by Abdul Ghani Soomro and Anila Hameem Memon February 12, 2020 … Continued
Broody: the Essential Art of Hatching by Frank van Steenbergen, Abraham Abhishek, and Reinier Veldman January 13, 2020 ‘Hazol’ hatching … Continued
Locust threat averted in Sindh, Pakistan By Gulsher Panhwer, Research and Development Foundation (RDF), Flood Based Livelihoods Network (FBLN ) … Continued
From the mother of all ponds: road water harvesting in Masala, Ethiopia By Francesco Sambalino and Cecilia Borgia January 03, … Continued
Locust in Yemen: a plague or an opportunity? Yemen, war, Cholera outbreaks, malnutrition, poverty, secession and locust outbreaks, these are … Continued
By Theophilus Kioko, Nancy Kadenyi & Luwieke Bosma Climate variability and change comes with its bowl of impacts, especially on … Continued
Post Card from Sponge Town KwaVonza KwaVonza residents in the driver seat by Luwieke Bosma, Nancy Kadenyi & Theophilus Kioko October … Continued