EU Supports Eritrea to Improve Food Security

BY EUROPEAN UNION (ERITREA) At the beginning of 2019 the EU launched a four years’ project in Eritrea to help improve food security and offer better income to participating farmers. The project, implemented through the Eritrean-Irish Development Partnership (Vita) with support from the Eritrean Ministry of Agriculture and the National Agricultural Research Institute (NARI), focuses […]

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Eritrea: The 2016 Agricultural Assessment

BY SEMIR SEID | SHABAIT Every sector of a country’s economy is crucial for its national development, and, government owned and private organizations and institutions periodically assess their performance to evaluate their progress. That is what the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) did in the final days of last week. The two-day annual assessment meeting of […]

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Ireland and Eritrea: Promoting Development and Food Security

By Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion, In 1994, Eritrea released the Macro Policy Paper (MPP), articulating a broad national development policy with a special focus on agriculture. Specific points raised in the document include: the need to create of a modern, technologically advanced and competitive agricultural sector; the importance of producing high value agricultural commodities through the […]

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