In
the mid 1980s, sub-Saharan Africa suffered a severe drought. Ethiopia
was particularly hard hit by the resulting famine, made worse by war.
Other countries suffered, but it is the image of starving Ethiopia that
has stayed in the public mind.
This booklet describes the work that ICARDA is doing in partnership with
national agriculturists to improve the nutrition, incomes, and well-being
of farm families and rural poor in Ethiopia. Through development of improved
crop varieties and production technologies, training, information exchange
and institutional capacity building, we can hope to avoid a repeat of
the grim suffering witnessed in the 1980s.
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