ICRAF in Ethiopia

Priorities

• Bringing quality germplasm and services closer to farmers through rural resources centres.

• Adding values to hillsides, unproductive exclosures and rehabilitated gullies.

• Enhancing food and water security for the rural poor by engaging national partners to scale up profitable and higher food production systems through the use of trees.

• Women’s livelihood improvement through agroforestry to increase women’s economic power and resilience capacity.

• Improving the income of poor households by better linking them to markets.

• Restoring landscapes to enhance ecosystem functions, services and resilience for better supply of food, feed, and energy, and the whole ecosystem wellbeing.

Progress

• Helped understand the impact of trees and management strategies on crop productivity, water resources and nutrient recycling in distinct agro-ecologies through long-term experimental trials in East Shewa and East Wellega.

• Undertook temperate and tropical fruit trees research in four regions (Amhara, Oromia, South and Tigray).

• Established and strengthened rural resource centres in Bako-Tibe, Bale, Atsbi and Ziway (Batu).

• Engaged in watershed-based landscape restoration to transform lives and landscapes in Gergera-Atsbi.

• Added value to hillsides and exclosures through the use of smart hill-top and -side water harvesting technologies and the elaboration of a climate smart management plan, including the integration of fruits, fodder, timber, firewood and fertilizer trees/shrubs.

• Transformed gullies from threats into opportunities: offering livelihood options to landless youth and women.

• Supported Ethiopia’s Sustainable Land Management Program with climate smart agriculture.

• Established robust tree seed system and supported forest landscape restoration.

Partners

CGIAR is a global research partnership for a food secure future

Projects

• Enhancing food and water security for improved rural commercialization project

• Africa-RISING (Africa- research in sustainable intensification for the next generation) program

• Integrating high value fruit trees project

• Enhancing Integrated Watershed Management with Climate Smart Agriculture in Gergera Watershed project

• Trees for Food Security Project: bringing trees on farm and landscape

After

Before

Low-cost water

harvesting structure

Water conveyer

Fiji Temperate Fruit Tree Farm

Wukro Saint Mary Technical College

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Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research

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