New release from IPMS: A guide to market-oriented extension services

This guide is the latest output of the IPMS Ethiopia project. Authored by Berhanu Gebremedhin, Samson Jemaneh, Dirk Hoekstra and Ponniah Anandajayasekeram, it helps raise awareness about the importance of market-oriented extension and ways to build capacities to provide this service among those who work directly with farmers and their organizations, and small-scale rural enterprises. … Continue reading →

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
The Improving the Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) of Ethiopian Farmers project was recently approached by the producers of ‘Egna’ TV program, one of the well-known evening Ethiopian TV shows, to document the project’s work on rural women empowerment. Egna’s producer, Gelila Media and Advertisement PLC produce and broadcast TV…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
This innovation story narrates the experience of the Improving Productivity and Market Success (IPMS) project on livestock fattening in Ethiopia. The video documents how a 2005 alliance between the local government office of agriculture, the IPMS project, and local livestock farmers and traders in western Ethiopia took advantage of livestock…

Originally posted on ILRI Clippings:
Over the past six years, the Improving productivity and market success (IPMS) project has touched the lives of many Ethiopians at different levels, in different ways and times. For some, it was a stepping stone to the next level in life, or a means to find a purpose, or a…