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Cultivated by about five million households, wheat is an important crop in Ethiopia as both a source of income for small farmers and a source of food and nutrition for millions of Ethiopians. Despite the country’s huge potential to grow wheat, the average wheat productivity of 2.5 tonnes per hectare is lower than the global average of 3 tonnes per hectare. This is due in part to recurrent outbreaks of a fungal disease called wheat rust that causes devastating pre-harvest losses.

Guest Post by Andrew Brooks, DataKind DC Core Leader and Data Ambassador

Photograph by Sven Laqua

This week we celebrated a new DataKind hoilday.

As part of National Volunteer Week this month, we are profiling volunteers of DataCorps projects past, present and future. In this special post, we highlight a lesser-known volunteer role – the Data Creative.

Guest post: Ryan Swanstrom, Blogger at Data Science 101