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#7 - Tom McCormack, Ethiopia Country Director for MEDA discusses beer, food security, value chains, and importance of diversification (vs. monocropping)
This week’s podcast which features Tom McCormack, Ethiopia Country Director for Mennonite Economic Development Associates (or MEDA) whose mission, since 1953, has been to create business solutions that reduce poverty. In Ethiopia, Tom focuses on increasing sustainable employment and income generating opportunities in agriculture for women in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Tom is also the co-founder of Addis Ababa Homebrew Association, a platform that looks to develop and support agriculture value chains through the promotion of locally grown material used in beer making from Ethiopian small holder farmers.
Tom and I discuss where his passion for beer has landed him, the multi-billion dollar value chain that has come to support the beer industry, the development case for entrepreneurial small hold farmers, and the need to completely rethink how aid and development organisations program interventions in highly fluid and unpredictable environments.
If you have questions or comments of this podcast please tweet us at @DRCInnovation or @Adambornstein
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By Adam BornsteinThis week’s podcast which features Tom McCormack, Ethiopia Country Director for Mennonite Economic Development Associates (or MEDA) whose mission, since 1953, has been to create business solutions that reduce poverty. In Ethiopia, Tom focuses on increasing sustainable employment and income generating opportunities in agriculture for women in Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Tom is also the co-founder of Addis Ababa Homebrew Association, a platform that looks to develop and support agriculture value chains through the promotion of locally grown material used in beer making from Ethiopian small holder farmers.
Tom and I discuss where his passion for beer has landed him, the multi-billion dollar value chain that has come to support the beer industry, the development case for entrepreneurial small hold farmers, and the need to completely rethink how aid and development organisations program interventions in highly fluid and unpredictable environments.
If you have questions or comments of this podcast please tweet us at @DRCInnovation or @Adambornstein