Comments on: To Abyssinia via French Somalia http://www.vaviblog.com/to-abyssinia-via-french-somalia/ A voice for N.I. Vavilov Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:10:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anne Marie Ruff http://www.vaviblog.com/to-abyssinia-via-french-somalia/comment-page-1/#comment-3091 Anne Marie Ruff Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:47:59 +0000 http://www.vaviblog.com/?p=1412#comment-3091 I read Vavilov's comments about Abyssinia with great interest. I traveled to Ethiopia in 2002 to the birthplace of coffee and visited with coffee farmers and the Biodiversity Institute in Addis Ababa. Luckily for me, the visa process was easier - I was living in Abu Dhabi at the time and there was no Ethiopian embassy, so I had to send my passport to a neighboring country where Ethiopia maintained an embassy. Once there, I was welcomed and found people throughout the country to be very gracious. The countryside, looks much the same as the Vavilov's photos in Five Continents. Unfortunately there has been little meaningful development and the global coffee market has done little to enrich coffee farmers. Thank you for the vicarious journey. I read Vavilov’s comments about Abyssinia with great interest. I traveled to Ethiopia in 2002 to the birthplace of coffee and visited with coffee farmers and the Biodiversity Institute in Addis Ababa. Luckily for me, the visa process was easier – I was living in Abu Dhabi at the time and there was no Ethiopian embassy, so I had to send my passport to a neighboring country where Ethiopia maintained an embassy.

Once there, I was welcomed and found people throughout the country to be very gracious. The countryside, looks much the same as the Vavilov’s photos in Five Continents. Unfortunately there has been little meaningful development and the global coffee market has done little to enrich coffee farmers.

Thank you for the vicarious journey.

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