BY HABTOM TESFAMICHAEL Food security is a prime goal of any nation with the intention of guaranteeing access to food for all and its timely availability. Wheat is an important staple crop to most of the world’s population. Its demand is predicted to increase in the future as the global population increases. Similarly in Eritrea, […]
Continue ReadingBy Capital Eritrea, A team of agriculture experts and practitioners from Eritrea visited Zambia to learn first-hand about the successful implementation of Conservation Agriculture (CA) in the Southern Africa state. Sponsored by the COMESA Climate Change Initiative, the Eritrean delegation visited government ministries and departments, agriculture research institutions, the Zambia Conservation Farming Unit (CFU), large […]
Continue ReadingBy World Bank, Eritrea was one of the fastest growing African economies in 2011, with growth in gross domestic product (GDP) projected at 14%, up from an estimated 2.2% in 2010, according to the World Bank’s June 2012 Global Economic Prospects. The growth was mainly stimulated by favorable harvest and the mining sector (mainly gold), […]
Continue Reading“We did not sell gold to buy food” President Isaias Afwerki; NY 2011. By Berhane Woldu, The morning light had broadened, gained greater depth, and lay in a clean sheet across the field, giving it a silver tincture. Not a single car was in sight except a carvel of camels traveling parallel to a tree-wreathed […]
Continue ReadingBy Madote, Eritrea’s economy is projected to grow by 7.5 percent in 2012, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Driven largely by an increase in major infrastructure development, solid agriculture output and mineral exports, forecasts taken from World Economic Outlook (WEO) released by the IMF on April 17, 2012, reveal Eritrea will register the fastest-growing economy in East […]
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By TesfaNews, Amid shocking reports of persistent drought and famine that hit horn of Africa countries like Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya, all benevolently endowed by mother nature with large amount of water resources, a semi-arid terrain country in that same horn of Africa has so far unaffected by any drought or famine. That country is Eritrea, […]
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