TRFN- Nomadic livestock herders in Ethiopia have received their first payout from an insurance scheme that tracks poor pasture conditions with satellite technology. Ethiopia has difficulty drawing full advantage from its livestock resources – the largest in Africa – because of the unreliability of pasture and water caused by persistent drought. The new insurance scheme,
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Bloomberg By William Davison Horizon Plantations Ethiopia Plc, majority-owned by Saudi billionaire Mohamed al-Amoudi, plans to almost double annual revenue within three years by investing at least $500 million in coffee and orange projects. The agriculture company will train workers, improve roads and replace washing units at the Limmu and Bebekacoffee plantations, which together have over 18,000 hectares (44,479 acres)
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Phys.org By Kelly Izlar Scientists have released these tiny beetles in Ethiopia to fight a toxic, invasive weed.(Phys.org) —An invasive weed poses a serious and frightening threat to farming families in Ethiopia, but scientists from a Virginia Tech-led program have unleashed a new weapon in the fight against hunger: a tiny, speckled beetle. The weed,
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Thomson Reuters Foundation Author: E.G. Woldegebriel Ethiopian farmers collect wheat in their field in Abay, north of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, Oct. 21, 2009. REUTERS/Barry Malone EJERE WOREDA, Ethiopia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Thirty years after the famine that killed more than a million people in Ethiopia and shocked the world into belated action, the country’s
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17 April 2014 The plants will cost over $2.8 billion. World Bulletin / News Desk Ethiopia is currently building five fertilizer plants at a total cost of over $2.8 billion, the Ministry of Industry said on Wednesday. “Each of the…
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