Teff love: Ethiopia's staple crop requires a big push (Thomson Reuters Foundation)

Thomson Reuters Foundation published an op-ed by IFPRI researchers Bart Minten and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse analyzing the current value chain of Ethiopia’s staple grain, teff.  Still a nascent cash crop, Minten and Taffesse list various challenges, and provide recommendations to increase production and marketability of teff drawing from their new book, The Economics of Teff: Exploring Ethiopia’s Biggest Cash Crop.  The op-ed has also appeared on the All Africa News website. 

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