In Ethiopia, farms backed by foreign investors are growing with abundance, while native farmers subsist on food aid. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports about the unlikely abundance in a land known for famine.

The domestication of pulses and oilseeds in East Africa dates back thousands of years, with Ethiopia standing at the heart of this history. For generations, ...

Ethiopia's ambition to become a manufacturing hub may hinge on Khalid Bomba's ability to transform small-scale farming just as much as it relies on new railways, roads and other more obvious signs of ...

Although women constitute half of the cabinet in Ethiopia, the emancipation has not percolated to rural women. Even after performing household chores, like cooking, cleaning, raising kids, and then ...

Ethiopia has registered impressive agricultural growth in the concluded 2017 Ethiopian Fiscal Year (EFY), Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed stated.

Contract farming is relatively an emerging phenomenon in the Ethiopian agriculture sector. Yet it is the best solution to create linkage between smallholder farmers, markets and firms. According to a ...

Tapping opportunity: Mohamed Saleem (in pink-and-blue T-shirt), founder of Sara Cotton Fibers, at his farmland in Ethiopia. Saleem is poised to plough in $6.4 million to grow cotton on 25,000 acres of ...

Preparing for sowing with just an ox and plough is unfathomable for Australian croppers. But that's the reality grain grower John Ferrier, from Birchip in north west Victoria, confronted during a ...

Southern Ethiopia has long been a stronghold of an ecologically sound version of agriculture, agroforestry, which yields food and medicine crops year round while benefiting a diversity of wild species ...

Ethiopia is due to launch its first ever wind farm next month. Upon completion, the farm is expected to generate 120 MW of power from wind. Ethiopia is due to launch its first ever wind farm next ...