Farming, Food and Fitness

Wheat Field in Africa

A Holistic Project on Sustainable Food Production in Ethiopia.

Corn

Projects

Farming, Food & Fitness: A Holistic Approach to Agricultural Productivity, Food Security & Nutritional Improvement

It’s all about TEF: Internationalizing Teaching, Extension and Farming Research in Ethiopia

A Holistic Approach to sustainable food security through adaptive Ecoregion-based Watershed Management in Ethiopia

Team meeting

meeting with people

Project Team Members

University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Haramaya University

Wollo University

  • Yitbarek Woldehawariat

International Development Enterprise, IDE

  • Kebede Ayele

Martha Mamo with villagers

Sorghum varieties

men meeting

city street

In the News

University of Nebraska–Lincoln team wins USDA grant for Ethiopian partnership
https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/ianrnews/443/2921

University of Nebraska–Lincoln Team Initiates Collaboration on Food Security Projects in Ethiopia
https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/?view=story&id=546

Interdisciplinary team initiates collaboration on food security projects in Ethiopia
https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/todayatunl/57/546

Scientific and Institutional Capacity Building to Improve Agricultural Production and Food Security in Partner Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
http://faraafrica.org/

Martha Mamo presentation

Ethiopia presentation

audience at Ethiopia presentation

Presentations

Willis, M.S., Beyene, S., Hames, R., Mamo, M., Regassa, T., Tadessa, T. (2011) Creating a Holistic Food Security Project: Lessons from Ethiopia. Oral Presentation, Society for Applied Anthropology, Sante Fe, New Mexico.

M. Mamo, S. Beyene, R. Hames, T. Regassa, T. Tadesse, M. Willis. 2011. Pathways to Greater Food Production: Lessons from Ethiopia. Water for Food Conference, Lincoln, NE

Cafer, A, M. Willis, Y. Wolde-Hawariat, A. Negwa, S. Beyene, M. Mamo. 2011. Healthy crops, Healthy Families: The Importance of Water in South Wollo, Ethiopia. American Society of Agronomy-Soil Science Society of America-Crops Science Society of America, San Antonio, 15 October-18 October.

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