{"id":278927,"date":"2019-06-14T08:48:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T12:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiS2h0dHBzOi8vYmxvZ3MuZWkuY29sdW1iaWEuZWR1LzIwMTkvMDYvMTQvYWN0b2RheS10cmFpbmluZy1ldGhpb3BpYS1mYXJtZXJzL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:15:29","slug":"columbias-earth-institute-described-training-ethiopian-field-agents-for-climate-vulnerable-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278927","title":{"rendered":"Columbia\u2019s Earth Institute described training Ethiopian field agents for climate-vulnerable farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 14 June 2019 Columbia University\u2019s State of the Planet blog described an ACToday-linked training approach that sent agents of change toward climate-vulnerable farmers outside Addis Ababa, opening with the road trip from the capital to Adama about sixty miles away.<\/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=\"Columbia\u2019s Earth Institute described training Ethiopian field agents for climate-vulnerable farmers\" \/>\n<p>The post framed the work as a way to reach smallholders who face drought and weather risk with practical advisory tools rather than with capital-city workshops alone.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as agri-climate archive, the Columbia note dates a mid-2019 training model aimed at Ethiopia\u2019s climate-exposed farms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ei.columbia.edu\/2019\/06\/14\/actoday-training-ethiopia-farmers\/\">Columbia Earth Institute<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Training Agents of Change: A New Approach to Reach Ethiopia&#8217;s Climate-Vulnerable Farmers&nbsp;&nbsp;State of the PlanetDriving on a new, six-lane expressway, it takes about an hour and a half to get from Ethiopia&#8217;s capital, Addis Ababa, to the city of &#8230;<\/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-278927","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-1ayP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278927","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=278927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755221,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278927\/revisions\/755221"}],"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=278927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}