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A greener future on a grand scale: a summary of the Bale Eco-region Phase II project
Ethiopia’s Bale Eco-region is an ecologically critical area and also home to many people who depend on its resources for their livelihood. Since 2014, Farm Africa has been leading a consortium to improve livelihoods in the region while ensuring the ecosystem is protected. The first phase of the project developed a management strategy for the region. Phase II (2019-2024), funded by the European Union, has scaled out the strategy to reach over 1.6 million people. This report summarises those Phase II activities and outcomes.
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Nature-based Solutions factsheet
A four-page summary of Farm Africa’s Nature-based Solutions for Sustainable and Inclusive Development programme in Ethiopia, funded by Sida. The programme, which runs from 2023 to 2026, aims to sustainably manage forests, conserve biodiversity, build communities’ resilience to climate change and develop sustainable livelihoods through holistic nature-based solutions across six river basins in Ethiopia, clustered into three eco-regions.
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Ethiopia
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Eco-tourism opportunity in Ilu Ababor Ethiopia
Although Ilu Ababor Zone in Ethiopia is presently unknown to tourists, a recent scoping study carried out by Farm Africa, Mattu University and Oromia Tourism Commission has found strong potential for sustainable eco-tourism development. This study summary outlines key findings and describes, in detail, 7 priority sites for eco-tourism development consideration.
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Farm Africa response to the Core Carbon Principles proposed by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)
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Farm Africa response to the Core Carbon Principles proposed by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)
This PDF is the response Farm Africa submitted in September 2022 to a public consultation on the draft Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) and Assessment Framework (AF) being developed by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)’s Expert Panel. The CCPs and AF will set new threshold standards for high-quality carbon credits, provide guidance on how to apply the CCPs, and define which carbon-crediting programmes and methodology types are CCP-eligible. The Core Carbon Principles and Assessment Framework will be issued in Q4 2022, following the public consultation, which launched in July 2022.
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Ethiopia
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Making forests sustainable
Between 2012 and 2021, Farm Africa worked with the NGO SOS Sahel Ethiopia, with funding from the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ethiopia, to deliver a REDD+ project that lowers greenhouse gas emissions by reducing deforestation in the Bale Eco-region, while also boosting the livelihoods of local communities living in poverty. This document presents key lessons generated by the Phase II of the project, which ran from 2016 to 2021.
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Sustainable livelihoods through ecosystem conservation: Update on the Bale Eco-region Phase II project
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Sustainable livelihoods through ecosystem conservation: Update on the Bale Eco-region Phase II project
The BER phase II project aims to improve the livelihoods of vulnerable people in south-eastern Ethiopia and to protect the environment through an integrated ecoregional development approach. This report gives an update on the achievements of the project and features testimonies from those directly involved.
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Livelihoods for Refugees and Host Communities
The project brought refugees and Ethiopian hosts together to address common challenges: environmental degradation, climate change and poverty. The Ethiopian Government provided host and refugee communities with access to previously unused land.
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Ethiopia
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Household socioeconomic status and women and children’s dietary diversity
Farm Africa’s Livestock for Livelihoods project helped Ugandan and Ethiopian pastoralist women set up sustainable, small-scale goat-rearing enterprises. This booklet examines the factors that improve dietary diversity in women and children, including women’s economic empowerment, production of food crops and the size of livestock herds.
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Goat husbandry by pastoralist communities
Farm Africa’s Livestock for Livelihoods project helped Ugandan and Ethiopian pastoralist women set up sustainable, small-scale goat-rearing enterprises. This booklet examines the factors affecting the adoption of good goat husbandry practices such as the provision of housing for goats, improved feeding practices, fodder production and using services from animal health workers.
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Forests for sustainable development factsheet
Factsheet on Forests for sustainable development programme, which aims to contribute to the sustainable conservation of natural forests, biodiversity and ecosystem services in the Bale Eco-region and associated landscapes in Guji and Borena zones in Oromia, Ethiopia through interventions that reduce deforestation and biodiversity loss, increase household incomes and resilience of the local community, and improve governance for integrated landscape management.
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Community Animal Health Workers
Farm Africa’s Livestock for Livelihoods project helped Ugandan and Ethiopian pastoralist women set up sustainable, small-scale goat-rearing enterprises. This four-page booklet outlines how the project created and strengthened a network of community animal health workers (CAHWs) linked to agro-input dealers to enhance pastoralists’ access to quality animal health services.
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Revolving Goat Fund
Farm Africa’s Livestock for Livelihoods project helped Ugandan and Ethiopian pastoralist women set up sustainable, small-scale goat-rearing enterprises. This four-page booklet outlines how Farm Africa set up a revolving goat scheme across South Omo and Karamoja. The scheme required each woman who received does (female goats) from Farm Africa to give does to another vulnerable woman once her herd had grown, creating a cycle of improved prosperity.
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DR Congo
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Farm Africa strategic plan 2021-2025
Farm Africa is a leading NGO specialising in promoting sustainable agricultural practices, strengthening markets and protecting the environment in rural Africa. Our strategic plan for the years 2021-2025 outlines our ambitious plan to grow and unlock the potential of agriculture to transform rural Africa.
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Increase incomes
Snapshot of women’s engagement in Farm Africa projects in Kenya
To mark International Women’s Day on 8 March, Farm Africa has published a snapshot summarising women’s participation in our projects in Kenya. In 2020, more than half of the people Farm Africa supported in Kenya are women. A total of 52% of the 15,520 people reached in Kenya last year were female.
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Rural Ethiopian women diversify livelihoods and boost entire communities’ climate resilience
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Rural Ethiopian women diversify livelihoods and boost entire communities’ climate resilience
This Climate & Development Knowledge Network booklet explores how Farm Africa’s Market Approaches to Resilience (MAR) project extended credit and savings facilities to communities in remote rural areas of Ethiopia, providing them with the means to diversify their assets and livelihoods. This helped to buffer them from climate-related stresses and shocks.
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Small-scale irrigation
This booklet is one of a series of seven focusing on the key components of the five-year Improving Smallholder Livelihoods through Climate-Smart Agricultural Economic Development project. Funded by Irish Aid, and implemented by a consortium of SOS Sahel Ethiopia, Self Help Africa, Vita and Farm Africa, the project aimed to alleviate poverty and build resilient, sustainable livelihoods in Ethiopia’s SNNP and Oromia regions.
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Cooperative-based seed multiplication systems
This booklet is one of a series of seven focusing on the key components of the five-year Improving Smallholder Livelihoods through Climate-Smart Agricultural Economic Development project. Funded by Irish Aid, and implemented by a consortium of SOS Sahel Ethiopia, Self Help Africa, Vita and Farm Africa, the project aimed to alleviate poverty and build resilient, sustainable livelihoods in Ethiopia’s SNNP and Oromia regions.
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