Tewolde Egziabher 
Biography
Environment Minister from Ethiopia
Tewolde Egziabher is General Manager of Ethiopia’s Environmental Protection Authority, effectively the nation’s Environment Ministry. He is the former Director of the Ethiopian Conservation Strategy Secretariat (1991-1994). He represented Africa during international negotiations for the Cartagena Protocol on biosafety. In 2006 he was one of the recipients of the Champion of the Earth prize, the United Nations’ foremost environmental award.
Videos
Tewolde Egziabher
How can Africa’s food crisis be solved?
Tewolde Egziabher notes that globalization and Africa’s colonial legacy brought with them a taste for non-traditional, imported foods. The current trade agreements that allow…
Recorded: 22 May 2006
Tewolde Egziabher
What can we learn from traditional agricultural methods?
Tewolde Egziabher observes that traditional agricultural methods are organic, using nature’s own forces of renewal. Organic food production is desirable both in terms of increasing…
Recorded: 22 May 2006
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