{"id":273957,"date":"2019-04-24T15:08:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T19:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=9b49c1696b972ef65fc063e59c168e1b"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:40:50","slug":"irish-potatoes-helped-stave-off-hunger-in-ethiopias-remote-highlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273957","title":{"rendered":"Irish potatoes helped stave off hunger in Ethiopia\u2019s remote highlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, aid group Concern Worldwide said Irish potato varieties had helped prevent another major food crisis in one of Ethiopia\u2019s poorest highland belts, including drought-prone South Wollo.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-429636\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Luna-Farm.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Irish potatoes helped stave off hunger in Ethiopia\u2019s remote highlands\" \/>\n<p>Farmers who got seed, training, and market links talked about more than calories. Harvests restored household dignity after years when hunger decisions meant selling animals or pulling children from school.<\/p>\n<p>Potato is not a silver bullet for Ethiopian agriculture. It still depends on roads, storage, and whether the Ethiopian government treats smallholders as citizens or as photo props for donor tours.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as reference, the Concern file sits with other Horn food-security lessons: crop choice matters, but so does who controls seed and who eats when the rains fail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.potatopro.com\/news\/2019\/potatoes-prevent-food-crisis-ethiopia-and-restore-dignity-and-hope\">PotatoPro<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potatoes prevent food crisis in Ethiopia and restore &#8216;dignity and hope&#8217;&nbsp;&nbsp;PotatoProIrish potatoes have prevented another major humanitarian food crisis in one of the poorest and most remote parts of Ethiopia, according to aid organization &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":429636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Luna-Farm.jpg?fit=1024%2C519&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19gF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601438,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273957\/revisions\/601438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}