Today, Africa's largest power plant, the GERD’s first turbine began generating power. This is a good news for our continent & the downstream countries with whom we aspire to work together. As Ethiopia marks the birth of a new era, I congratulate all Ethiopians!

This year of focus is key in our desire to be in 2025 an organisation that excels in bringing the impact we are committed to, while at the same time having innovated ourselves into an organisation that is serving cooperatives and farmer organisations. bit.ly/newsletter_Mar…

With professional advice, proven training tools and agripool network. Agriterra will certainly improve the position of farmers in Jordan.Bert Steenbergen Well done.

The farmers in #Tanzania harvested on average 100 KG of #avocados per tree, resulting in 80 USD per tree. The EAT FRESH project is starting to produce its first tangible results. #horticulture agriterra.org/public_private…

We are looking for a new Business Advisor. Please see the job posting at: ethiojobs.net/display-job/38… Agriterra

Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Ethiopian Cooperative Commission and Agriterra to work jointly towards modernizing the cooperative sector, the creation of new generation cooperatives and support each other on other key areas Agriterra

In April Marco Schouten made his first Agriterra trip to #Ethiopia and #Kenya, since his start at Agriterra last October. The trip combined staff interactions, stakeholders meetings, official signings, and of course to experience first-hand our work. bit.ly/Newsletter_May…

This week we are delivering coop governance training to dairy cooperatives together with Frans(Agripool) Agriterra Agriterra Agripool . The cooperatives are quite egar to learn and make an improvement with their current governance practices.

We had a successful coop governance training this week. The participating cooperatives have developed a good action plan; panned to have clear strategic plan, establish member council, improve their communication with respective members etc.Agriterra Agriterra Agripool

Chere-Cher Oda Bultum union is bringing outstanding results. The union is currently installing a new feed processing factor with a production capacity of 5 tons per hour. We are pleased to see the union achieving its intended business case with the assistance of Agriterra

A crop residue treatment training for farmers in #Ethiopia has yielded fantastic results! Feeding cows a treated crop residue with effective microorganisms and molasses increased the #milk production on average by 1,8 lit per cow per day. agriterra.org/crop_residue_t… #SNVBRIDGEproject

In #Ethiopia & #Djibouti, Dutch consortium Flying Swans & local partners are developing a cool #logistics network to reduce #postharvest loss & create economic opportunities for both countries. Sounds cool? Read all about it here👉bit.ly/3KrM5hU NL Embassy Ethiopia

Breaking News: Ethiopia adopts new policy to liberalize banking sector The Council of Ministers approved a new policy that will open the banking industry for foreign competition.

A transformational, historic decision by the Council of Ministers which approved entry of foreign banks in #Ethiopia for first time in ~ 50 years. Source: Office of the Prime Minister - Ethiopia Expect big changes in the banking sector in Sub-Saharan Africa’s 3rd largest GDP including M&A by local banks.

Our client Jantekel Dairy Union has finalised all preparations to start milk processing activity as of next week. The union milk processing facility was idle for the past 4 years. But through Agriterra and SNV BRIDE project support the milk factory is going to be functional.

Kick off of company assessment for Gadaa cooperative Union- Southern Ethiopia 🇪🇹. Agriterra @AgriterraUG

Today, Dawit and I, held discussion held with Dida Yabello PC in southern Ethiopia to discuss member commitment & particition in Gada Pastoralist Coop. Union. Drought and limited access to market is biggest challenges they have. Agriterra @AgriterraUG Habtamu Awoke

On completion of CA, Dawit and I presented findings. The elder from Borana culture handed us culture gifts. AgriterraUG @Agriterra Habtamu Awoke @dawit Making cooperatives bankable

We have started a 2.5 days annual team summit with aim to evaluate our 2022 year performance and discuss on the 2023 year plans. Very motivated and inspired team, great key achievements Agriterra Stijn van Geel

A potato production training was given to 180 farmers from 4 different cooperatives #Ethiopia. Linking them up with a trainer from a research institute will help them stay informed on new systems and technologies. agriterra.org/potato_product…