Mizan Newsletter

The Ecological Organic Agriculture (EOA) initiative is led by the African Union and was started in 2013. It aims to establish an African organic farming platform based on available best practices and to develop sustainable organic farming systems.

The EOA project being implemented in 9 African countries including Ethiopia, promotes ecologically sound strategies and practices among diverse stakeholders in production, processing, marketing and policy making to safeguard the environment, improve livelihoods, alleviate poverty and guarantee food security and nutrition security.

An outstanding work has been done in Ethiopia by different pillar implementing partners in conducting studies, promoting innovative organic farming practices, putting participatory extension systems and training approaches in place, and creating market linkages for farmers which helped them get better profits from organic premium prices.

As part of the project, the information and communication team have been publishing stories and best practices so we can share them to readers. We name the newsletter “Mizan”.

Mizan, an Amharic word for balance, is a short newsletter that brings success stories, experiences and best practices of EOA to readers with a theme "maintaining the balance of nature is the foundation for healthy environment, healthy life, and heathy society." We publish the newsletter both in English and Amharic. See the 6 volumes published in PDF format:

Volume 1, Amharic

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1flNoKWhVCinnjTkRgmsPYvLHW257-WvS/view?usp=sharing

Volume 2, Amharic

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PSsVirOOvWdf1e06nNyTfzuRTTbip_NU/view?usp=sharing

Volume 3 Amharic: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17Ad-I5PBrchnVo_1huB2cMQRCkCuMbkC/view?usp=sharing

Volumen 4, English

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z91guUHNrt1Gl3yDdIX9-7zHQnGeTDDw/view?usp=sharing

Volume 5, English

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Uy9mVIuNOAtrY4PnQKdcsxRQs3TUTSxG/view?usp=sharing

Volume 6, Amharic

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BO3rFoMqDBn7jefO8US603ZmBMPpEzp2/view?usp=sharing

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Urban Agriculture in Addis Ababa

Urban agriculture in Addis Ababa is contributing a lot to food supply in the city. The city sources most of the vegetables from urban farmers and farmers in the peri-urban areas. Urban farmers in Addis produce vegetables for home consumption and as a source of income for their families. There are also urban agriculture practitioners who grow vegetables only for home consumption. Mr Yilma Bizuneh is one of the urban agriculture implementers who grows different vegetable types for home consumption. When asked about his experience in vegetable production, he said that he used to grow a few vegetables in pots. His backyard was open only to grow grass and weeds, especially during the rainy season. He started growing vegetables in his backyard after the wide-ranging promotions of home gardening by the city administration. Mr Yilma is now sourcing vegetables for his family consumption from his backyard. He adds compostable household wastes in the backyard to decompose there. The added biomas

The charismatic farmer who made me feel that my college education was null and void

It was November 2016, the spring, the season every part of Ethiopia blossoms with flowers from wild plants, shining beauty from a mosaic of smallholder plots planted with different crop types and varieties of the same crop species and the greenery across the different landscapes and Agro-ecological zones. A team of experts of Agro-ecology from all over Africa came to Ethiopia to take part in the “Community Seed Knowledge” workshop organised by African Biodiversity Network (ABN) and the Institute for Sustainable Development (ISD). The workshop was held in Dessie, a city located 400 km North East of the Ethiopian capital – Addis Ababa. On the day we drove to Dessie; we stopped in a small village in Harbu district of South Wollo Zone, one of the sorghum growing areas, and met smallholder farmers who have been involved in community seed bank project run by Ethio Organic Seed Action – an NGO working to save indigenous seeds. As we stopped by the roadside and got off our bus; the farme

Why organic farming?

Agriculture is one of humankind's most basic activities which strives to fulfil people’s need to nourish themselves daily with healthy and nutritious food. As production systems, organic agriculture acknowledges the interconnectedness of human health, the natural world, and agricultural which have to operate with a healthy interaction amongst themselves. Hence, it relies on healthy ecological processes, biodiversity and cycle of interactions. The production system depends on the link between tradition, innovation and science. Below are few reasons to go for the production and consumption of organic: Organically grown food is healthy and is free from residues of toxic chemicals. Studies also showed that organic food has high content antioxidants. Promotes the use of natural soil fertility enhancement and plant protection techniques are in harmony with nature Production system is knowledge intensive which promotes the use of local and indigenous knowledge Don’t pollu

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