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.
| 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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Recommended reading
- 20 Steps Sesame Producion Guide
- 2014 Yields-and-post-harvest-losses-study-report
- 2016 brief 1. Yield can double!
- 2016 brief 4. Bringing farmers and buyers together
- 2016 brief 5. Labour in the sesame sector
- 2016 Labour-in-the-sesame-sector
- 2016 SBN Introductory Brochure_English
- 2017 Sorghum training manual
- 2018 Nutrition baseline survey
- 2018 Policy brief_Input credit
- 2019 Cotton production guide_final
- 2019 Homegarden vegetables production manual
- 2019 Mung bean production guide
- 2019 Pest, disease and weed management guide
- 2019 SBN Ethiopia Newsletter 22 - November 2019
- 2019 Soyabean production guide
- Experience paper Kebele AE planning
- Experience paper_marketing credit_ET
- Financial literacy manual Amharic
- Financial literacy recording book Amharic
- Issue brief agri-finance
- Issue brief investor farmers performance issue brief
- Issue brief Kebele AE planning
- Issue brief Marketing credit
- Issue brief Mechanization
- Issue brief Seed and agro-inputs
- Labour brochure1
- Labour brochure2
- Map with demo plots per woreda
- Pillar 1 Cost recording and calculating
- Pillar 1 Post harvest loss reduction
- Pillar 1 Promotion of rotation crops
- Pillar 1 Scaling 20 steps
- Pillar 1 Weather forcast
- Pillar 2 Cooperative marketing
- Pillar 2 Post-harvest value creation
- Pillar 3 Information management systems
- Pillar 3 Kebele Agro Economic Planning
- Poster financial literacy-Amharic
- Poster IPM Blight
- Poster IPM webworm
- Poster post harvest
- Poster_market information
- Saving Brochure Amharic