Ethiopian scientist Getinet Mekuriaw Tarekegn (PhD) says Africa can transform its food and nutritional security by harnessing indigenous livestock genetics, modern genomic technologies, AI-driven breeding systems and AGENES (Africa Genetic Evaluation Service) to boost productivity, empower farmers and reduce dependence on livestock imports.
Getinet, a fellow of the Young Ethiopian Academy of Sciences, is a Geneticist and Bioinformatician at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC). He was Associate Professor of Livestock Genomics and Breeding at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia, and is Adjunct Professor of Livestock Genetics and Bioinformatics at the Institute of Biotechnology, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
Read the full length interview with The Ethiopian Herald, by Yohanes Jemaneh, published on Gazette Plus One-on-one, November 2nd, 2026.
Dr. Getinet Tarekegn is a primary researcher for the Africa Genetic Evaluation Service (AGENES), a genetic and genomic evaluation pipeline for dairy cattle, developed by SRUC through CTLGH, a strategic partnership with Roslin Institute and International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) which was launched recently at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) campus in Addis Ababa.