Ethiopia: Building resilience entails wholesome investment

In this opinion piece for Addis Fortune, the author argues that underinvestment in key upstream services raises the risk of inability to prepare to absorb shocks. It is easy to envisage the cost this would entail for the economy that is struggling to take its root to productive equilibrium.

'Having the institutional and human capital to conduct updated weather forecasting analysis, giving timely feedback to agricultural research and policymaking, integrating it all with early warning and disaster prevention systems is critical to having reliable shock absorption capacity. This also means farmers would be well-informed and therefore able to make timely production decisions.'