Ethiopia

Introducing Business (Development) Services in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Senegal

ICCO’s (part of Cordaid) STARS program applies the Market Systems Development (MSD) approach, with an aim ...

Farmers and Small Agri-Businesses Affected by COVID-19

ICCO conducted a research on the impact of COVID-19 on smallholder farmers and MSMEs (Micro, Small and ...

Desert Locusts Continue to Threaten Food Security in Ethiopia

Since January 2020, swarms of desert locusts have damaged over 200.000 hectares of cropland in Ethiopia. These swarms put ...

Simbuka and ICCO Digitize Loan Tool for African Smallholders

The Dutch-based software solution corporation Simbuka and the international development organization ICCO Cooperation join forces by signing ...

Providing Ethiopian Farmers with Access to Storage and Inputs

STORY | By increasing storage space and ensuring that cooperative members have access to warehouses, cooperatives are able ...

Establishing Dairy and Fattening Business Platforms in Ethiopia

The project SAFE – Strengthening Agricultural Finance in Ethiopia – established dairy and large ruminant fattening business platforms. During ...

Impacting the Dairy Industry in Ethiopia

Dangla is known as an environmentally favorable town in northern Ethiopia, with a potential in livestock production. ...

Announcement of Call for Concept Notes RESET Plus Innovation Fund

The closing date for concept note submission is December 16th 2019, 16:00.

RESET Plus Innovation Fund Launched in Ethiopia

Today the RESET Plus Innovation Funds was launched in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Over 250 people participated in a ...

Register for one of the RESET Plus Innovation Fund events in Ethiopia

Pre-register for one of the public meetings to be organized by the RESET Plus Innovation Fund for ...

Innovation4Resilience Event: Game Changers that Build Resilience in Ethiopia

We are cordially inviting you to the Official Launching event of the RESET Plus Innovation Fund to ...

First Field Trip of New CEO: “Building Trust With Banks Is of Utmost Importance”

“With some relatively simple business skills and technologies, we can support farmers” says Sybren Attema. As a ...

International Women’s Day | 5 Questions to Martha Yilma

For International Women’s Day we asked 5 Questions to our colleague Martha Yilma.

Smallholder farmers bring potatoes to Dutch chips factory

Proudly, Ethiopian farmers put bags of chips in the air. Chips made from their potatoes. That tastes ...

Towards a Gender Approach in the Ethiopian Flower Sector

At global level there is increasing evidence that investing in the female workforce aligns well with business ...

SAFE: A New Project in Ethiopia

Innovative Research in Ethiopia Gives People a Voice

ICCO, together with Tear, conducted innovative research on the food & nutrition security situation of poor rural households ...

Potato Farmers Learn How to Negotiate

Farmers in Ethiopia face various challenges in order to improve and grow their business. ICCO Cooperation and ...

Providing better access to inputs and finance through warehouse rehabilitation in Ethiopia

In the first two years of its implementation, ICCO Cooperation’s STARS program in Ethiopia has learned ...

Using Behavioural Science to Develop attractive Savings Products in Ethiopia

Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in Ethiopia generally lack the financial resources to develop more loan products for their ...

Changing clients’ savings behaviours helps MFIs in Ethiopia to become financially healthy

Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) in Ethiopia generally lack the financial resources to develop more loan products for their ...

Cattle Fattening Fair in Dembecha

The holiday Gena (Ethiopian Christmas) is only two weeks ahead. And, as in many of Ethiopian holidays, ...

Malt Barley Farmers Access Inputs Through the Farm Service Center

Ethiopia is one of the major producers of barley in Sub-Saharan Africa. But farmers have low yields ...

Linking Potato Farmers in Ethiopia to Senselet

The potato value chain is valuable as it plays a great role in food security in Ethiopia. ...

A-CAT - A Tool for Risk Assessment in Agriculture Financing

Both farmers and MFIs have an interest to know how much it costs to produce a certain ...

Measuring Income of Smallholder Farmers: Some Insights from Practitioners

Life is complex. And so is the measurement of income and economic empowerment. Here are four take-away ...

Making the Market Work for the Poor: Case of STARS Program

Making the market work for the poor (M4P) is an approach that aims to improve the ...

Effectively Assessing Household Food Security Status

Empowering Rural Women in Ethiopia

In rural Ethiopia, women are responsible for household chores such as cooking, cleaning, raising kids, caring for ...

A New Instrument to Measure Food (In)Security: MAHFP

To increase food security is an important objective for ICCO Cooperation, in facts it is a separate ...

STARS Program: Characterizing Smallholder Farmers Households

The STARS Program aims to have an impact on smallholder farmers by giving them access to credit ...

​Navigating with Data to Increase Income and Food Security

How to stay in control of your results? In the Strengthening African Rural Smallholders program (STARS) ICCO ...

Strong Women, Strong Farms: Empowering Female Smallholders through Access to Finance

Many women in Africa struggle to scale their farms and build their businesses. This blog explains how ...