Category: Opinion
A. The demand for Statehood in Ethiopia The government of Ethiopia under the Premiership of Abiy Ahmed has recorded outstanding achievements and faced multiple political challenges. One of the most memorable political events that occurred under Abiy Ahmed’s premiership is…
Let me start with three stories from Ethiopia before I go into the politics of GMOs in Africa. In 2013, I participated in a workshop at the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR). From the introductions, I could see that…
Thousands of years of culture, history, religion, and most importantly the Nile waters have created strong bonds amongst the peoples of Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan. It should be clear that no wicked force in the world can break these people…
ትላንት በተወካዮች ምክር ቤት መደበኛ ስብሰባ ላይ ተገኘትው ለምክር ቤቱ አባላት ጥያቄዎች ምላሽ ሲሰጡ የነበሩት ዶ/ር አብይ ለበርካታ ጥያቄዎች አግባብነት ያለው ምላሽ ቢሰጡም በሁለት ጉዳዮች ግን ሲፎርሹ ታዝቤያለሁ። አንደኛው የታፈኑትን ሴት ተማሪዎች በተመለከተ የተናገሩት ሲሆን ሁለተኛው ደግሞ የአምነስቲ ኢንተርናሽናልን መግለጫ…
By Clare O’Grady Walshe Opinion: seed sovereignty for food security could transform globalisation after the coronavirus Communities who regularly face calamitous food shocks have much to teach us about maintaining sovereignty over seeds and food supply. They know well not…
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) produced a report on the 5th of February 2020 titled Agricultural Biotechnology Annual Report (ET 2019-0010). The report says that the Ethiopian government has approved the commercialization of Bt Cotton and the Confined…
The recent exchanges on Ethiopia’s acceptance of genetically modified (GM) crops and the resulting report of USDA praising the steps our country has taken continue to be informative. My understanding of the debates surrounding GM foods suggests that neat explanations…
In an open letter, former Director-General of the Environmental Protection Authority of Ethiopia and the spokesperson of the Like-Minded Group (Group of 77 & China) at the Montreal and Cartagena biosafety talks, Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher, urges the government to…
Genetically modified (GM) traits can be valuable and the discussion around them should be based on facts and in a case-by-case approach, according to an Ethiopian geneticist doing his postdoctoral research at Aarhus University in Denmark. A recent report by…
Reacting to PM Abiy’s recent harsh and indiscriminate detraction of African and, specifically, of Ethiopian intellectuals, comments were quick to flow that, not only contested the criticisms, but more seriously exposed their dangerous implications, the most glaring of them being…