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Ethiopia: Crop Failures Will Test Agricultural Overhaul
Africa Renewal, 28 December 2015
Early this year Masimba Tafirenyika travelled to Ethiopia to see how much has changed since the infamous famine of the mid-1980s. Read more »
Crop Failures Will Test Agricultural Overhaul in Ethiopia
This year's drought is likely to test the systems created to make Ethiopia's agriculture resilient to erratic rainfalls. It is a test the country hardly wants to flunk, writes Masimba Tafirenyika for Africa Renewal.
Farmer sowing seed in the floodplain of the Cheffa Valley in Ethiopia's Amahara region.
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