Project

The Sesame Business Network in North West Ethiopia

Between 2013 and 2020, Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation of Wageningen University & Research has coordinated the support programme of the Sesame Business Network (SBN) in North West Ethiopia. The innovative work was strongly based on stakeholder ownership and collaboration. Members of the SBN set the agenda and steered activities.

The SBN programme has shown that the sesame agribusiness sector has significant potential for growth and development in terms of production and yield improvement, reduction of post-harvest losses, domestic value addition, and in marketing, higher market access and net turnover. Many materials targeted farmers, such as the sesame field guide. Important changes were realised in the agri-finance domain - farmers’ financial literacy, guarantee fund support marketing credit for farmer cooperatives.

Experiences and lessons learned

The experiences and lessons learned are documented and shared in the book ‘Agricultural sector transformation is teamwork’. You will find more recommended reading on this page.

Contact us

After project completion, the sesame lowlands witnessed the devastating effects of the civil war. Contact us if you are interested to restore the dynamics in the sesame lowlands in Ethiopia or if you seek to support farmer-inclusive sesame sector transformation, with attention for the production side, the market side and food systems transformation.

Key contact persons
Geremew Terefe Gashawbeza SBN support programme coordinator
Anteneh Mekuria Tesfaye Director - Gondar Agricultural Research Centre
Ted Schrader General coordinator - Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation

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