Now several months into IDEO.org’s engagement with the Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) in Ethiopia, Remy Pieron gives an update on the next phase of the project and the next steps in scaling the teff row planter. 

Back from their most recent prototyping trip to the field, the IDEO.org team—working with the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency on building a teff row planter—gains some important feedback from farmers.

Martin Schnitzer tells of his team's second day field testing in Ethiopia and their experience overcoming yet another large obstacle to make a functioning teff planter prototype.