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Cauliflowers: Exploring a potential cool season vegetable for the Amhara region
The Amhara region of Ethiopia produces many cool season vegetables: Cabbages, carrots, beetroot, Swiss chard and lettuce are widely grown and supplied to local markets throughout the year. However,...
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Hydroponic fodder production for smallholder livestock farmers
There is a broad consensus that most smallholder agricultural systems in Africa are far from being 21st century agriculture. Measured by multiple criteria including the use of technologies,...
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The regional livestock market centers serving Addis Ababa – a snapshot
Livestock is a significant contributor to economic and social development in Ethiopia, both at the household and national levels. However, the sector suffers from low input-low-output subsistence...
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Blogging LIVES – getting the hang of blogs to communicate research
Photo Credit: Barnett /Flickr Recently, I was happily surprised to realize that any content we produce has a story angle that is either money (economics – how much now how much later, to whom by whom),...
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Conducting baseline surveys – Some insights from the LIVES team in Ethiopia
The LIVES project logical framework requires that we conduct rigorous impact evaluation at the end of the project life. To this end, in the past few months, many of the LIVES project team members were...
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A cup of coffee for your dairy cow?
Heaps of coffee pulp being burned in Jimma Coffee from Jimma accounts for about 35% of the dry and 40% of the wet processed coffee exported from Oromia region. As one of the major cash crops in Jimma...
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LIVES Updates, April 2014
News and updates on LIVES project Download a print version or sign up to get LIVES updates in your mailbox. Program News LIVES at two years old During the last few months, LIVES has transformed from a...
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Tomatoes and onions improving livelihoods in Gam Gofa zone
Irrigated vegetables such as tomato and onion can easily be produced in the lowlands of Gamo Gofa Zone in Ethiopia. However, despite growing market demands by local hotels, restaurants and lodges in...
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Watermelons a great opportunity for Ethiopian producers
A common misconception about watermelon is that it contains mainly water and sugar. In reality, it is a nutrient-dense fruit. Watermelon is an excellent source of antioxidants such as lycopene, and...
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Fodders creeping onto croplands
Smallholder farmer Tesfaye Aregawi runs a farm on a small plot of irrigable land and a dairy cow in Hadish-Hiwot kebele, in Tigray Region. Tesfaye has recently adopted an uncommon irrigation farming...
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Communal grazing lands: averting ‘the tragedy of the commons’
Livestock keepers in Barka-Adisba kebele, Atsbi-Womberta district, Tigray region were once confronted with ‘the tragedy of the commons’, as do many livestock keepers in Ethiopia who depend on communal...
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Oestrus synchronization in sheep: A promising intervention
LIVES Project in Amhara region is introducing new livestock and irrigated crops improvement technologies in its target sites. One of the new livestock technologies initiated by the LIVES predecessor...
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Dairying: A way out of poverty
Ato Nurhussien holding the first born of his first cow (Photo:ILRI\Yaynesht Tesfay) For many poor households, dairying is considered a powerful pathway out of poverty. Marketing of dairy products,...
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Maize stover: A potential green fodder in Ethiopia
Maize stover in the field is prone to wastage and tramping by animals (Photo:ILRI\ Solomon Gizaw). Maize is a major food crop in the lowlands and mid-highlands of Ethiopia, but its stover is not...
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Mobile phones boost vegetable marketing in Ethiopia
Onions from the Koga irrigation scheme prepared for distant markets (Photo:ILRI\ Yigzaw Dessalegne) Ethiopia has diversified agro-ecology with altitudes ranging from 200 meters below sea level to 4,260...
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Will the modest pineapple help Ethiopian smallholders break into the...
To meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the world is going to have to ‘act local’. This story is an example of that. It’s about hardships faced by farmers in Sidama, one of...
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Improving seedling supply for smallholders to boost Ethiopia’s hybrid tomato...
Hybrid tomato seedings at Florensis Ethiopia PLC (photo credit: ILRI\Amenti Chali). In recent years, use of hybrid varieties of vegetables has become common in East Shoa zone of Oromia region of...
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Cattle fattening in Gamogofa benefits from improved market linkages
Fattened oxen buyers visiting producer farms in Gamogofa (Photo:ILRI\Yoseph Mekasha). Cattle fattening is an important component of livestock farming in Gamogofa Zone of the Southern Nations,...
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Improved marketing systems raise incomes for banana farmers in Gamo Gofa
Banana is an important commercial commodity in Gamo Gofa zone of the Southern Nations and Nationalities People’s Region (SNNPR) in Ethiopia. About 80% of the banana supplied to the Addis Ababa market...
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Leaping ahead: ICT-based centres boost access to agricultural information in...
An agricultural knowledge centre in southern Ethiopia (photo credit: ILRI/LIVES). Ten years ago, access to computers, the internet and other information communication technology (ICT) tools was...
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