The African Development Bank Group has awarded grant funding totalling $84.3 million to Ethiopia to advance wheat production and increase farmers’ incomes. Ethiopia’s Finance Minister Ahmed Shide and African Development Bank Group Deputy Director General for East Africa, Abdul Kamara, signed the grant agreement on 2 August 2023 for the implementation of the country’s Climate ...

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is accelerating efforts to roll out enhanced safeguards and controls that will ensure humanitarian food assistance reaches targeted, vulnerable people across Ethiopia. This follows a joint statement by Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and USAID announcing their commitment to addressing deeply concerning revelations of food aid diversion. “Food ...

The World Food Programme (WFP) is rolling out comprehensive, systemic measures to prevent further misuse of life-saving aid in response to the discovery of widespread diversion of humanitarian food assistance in Ethiopia last month. WFP paused food distributions in the Tigray region after finding evidence of significant food aid sales in local markets. WFP immediately ...

Africa’s fish industry faces a significant supply-demand discrepancy, with aquaculture poised to fill the gap as demand continues to grow across the continent. “The East African fish supply deficit is one of the greatest supply-demand imbalances in the global food system today,” said Kenya-based aquaculture company Victory Farms in a recent statement to announce a ...

(Korofto, Adama District, Ethiopia) If the shrill sounds of policemen’s whistles echoing across Ethiopia’s Awash River Valley do not seem out of place, the crack of whips in the air will have some visitors to these irrigated wheat fields wondering what is going on at this patch of remote farm cooperative. A short walk through ...

Ethiopian Agriculture Authority disclosed that the country has earned more than 41 million USD from the export trade of meat over the past five months. The Authority stated that the nation is working to export 28 tons of meat to the international market during the current Ethiopian fiscal year that started on July 7/2022. Export ...

Agriculture | Food Processing & Packaging | Ingredients | Food & Hospitality The 5th edition of Ethiopia’s leading agrofood & plastprintpack trade show will be held in Addis Ababa from 8 to 10 June 2023. The event will once again be organised by fairtrade in cooperation with its local partner Prana Events.