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Agriculture = 90% of Ethiopian Exports. Who Knew?
Submitted by willow on Fri, 2010-01-08 13:45.
In November, I visited Ethiopia for the first time to make this presentation at the Ethiopian National Agricultural Learning Event, with our partner, Addis Ababa-based FarmOrganic International:
Day one of the conference featured research and best practices presented by international non-governmentlal organizations like Oxfam and CARE that have worked in the region for decades, to the federal government, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Women's Affairs, to multi-lateral, international organizations like the World Bank, to multiple regional agricultural centres and Farmers Unions which live the subject.
A straw poll of 30+ Americans and Europeans, and a handful of Middle Easterners, 
reveals that the prevailing perception of Ethiopia (for decades) has been the starving child.
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