{"id":278571,"date":"2019-06-10T10:33:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T14:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiT2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZkaWZvcnVtLm5ldC9tYWcvc3VwcGx5LWNoYWluL29sYW0tYm9vc3RpbmctZm9vZC1zZWN1cml0eS1ldGhpb3BpYS_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:30:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:30:55","slug":"olam-awarded-75000-for-a-mapping-tool-meant-to-raise-food-security-for-ethiopian-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278571","title":{"rendered":"Olam awarded $75,000 for a mapping tool meant to raise food security for Ethiopian farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Food & Drink International reported that agribusiness firm Olam International had awarded $75,000 to scientists behind Innovation Mapping for Food Security, or IM4FS, a scenario-planning tool built from lessons of the CASCAPE project that had already worked with about 200,000 Ethiopian farmers.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-434588\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ethiopia-to-export-wheat-while-there-is-domestic-shortage-Fowg4A1aIAE9vyk.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Olam awarded $75,000 for a mapping tool meant to raise food security for Ethiopian farmers\" \/>\n<p>The report said the interactive map was meant to help farmers and local officials choose what to plant where and how to raise yields in food-insecure areas, for example by testing where malt barley and fertilizer might fit best, in a country that Olam described as having large arable land yet still importing a large share of its food.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as agribusiness archive, the Olam prize note dates an industry-backed attempt to turn Ethiopian farm research into a national planning tool in mid-2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdiforum.net\/mag\/supply-chain\/olam-boosting-food-security-ethiopia\/\">Food & Drink International<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olam boosting food security in Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;Food &amp; Drink InternationalAgribusiness Olam International has awarded $75000 to scientists whose latest innovation will help bring food security to Ethiopia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":434588,"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-278571","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\/02\/Ethiopia-to-export-wheat-while-there-is-domestic-shortage-Fowg4A1aIAE9vyk.jpg?fit=1080%2C809&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1at5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278571","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=278571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755123,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278571\/revisions\/755123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}