Ethiopia
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Is uptake of rust-resistant wheat linked to gender equality?
Environmental health and biodiversity
CIMMYT presents data to Tropentag on potential benefits of women participation in household decisions on crop farming and variety selection.
Technology addresses gender inequality in wheat farming
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Male and female farmers in Ethiopia and India face different challenges to accessing new wheat varieties, discovers CIMMYT researchers.
Gender-informed policies fundamental for climate change adaptation
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Reducing the gender gap in Ethiopian farming households can enhance climate change adaptation by female-headed households by almost 19%.
AGG-Maize project registers impressive progress
Nutrition, health and food security
Achievements and next steps discussed at the review meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.
Special issue on gender research in agriculture highlights CIMMYT’s work on gender inclusivity
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
New issue spotlights importance of gender inclusive approach to agricultural research for development.
CGIAR Initiative: Sustainable Intensification of Mixed Farming Systems (SI-MFS)
Poverty reduction, livelihoods and jobs
Tracking improved crop varieties
Environmental health and biodiversity
CIMMYT and EIAR launch working group in Ethiopia to implement IMAGE, a five-year project that will improve seed variety deployment in Africa.
Excellence in Agronomy Initiative commences in Africa
Climate adaptation and mitigation
CGIAR research centers are combining expertise and resource to increase farmers’ yields in a sustainable way and build risk resilience against climate change.
CRAFT tool helps Ethiopian experts predict crop yields to improve early warning decisions
Innovations
CIMMYT trains Ethiopian national partners in crop monitoring and yield forecasting as part of AICCRA’s effort to improve climate information services.
In Ethiopia, local challenges inform national action for climate-smart agriculture
Climate adaptation and mitigation
There is no universal model for successfully delivering climate-smart agriculture. But the AICCRA experience in Ethiopia shows how engaging changemakers can reveal effective, inclusive, and localized ways to make farming communities more resilient to climate change.
More than machines
Innovations
In collaboration with GIZ, CIMMYT’s Scaling Scan is helping Green Innovation Centers in Africa address the sustainability problem.
Pilot of new wheat variety improves yield for farmers in Ethiopia
Capacity development
Farmers in Ethiopia’s lowlands trialed usage of the Kingbird wheat variety, with promising results for improved yield and increased income.
