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Ethiopia Strategy 2021-2025
A five year strategic plan for Farm Africa’s Ethiopia team which contribute to the overall objectives found in Farm Africa’s 2021-2015 strategy.
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Ethiopia
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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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Ethiopia
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Ethiopia
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Quality Declared Seed
A report on various seed systems in eastern Africa and how a Quality Declared Seed (QDS) system can help farmers increase their yields and productivity, with case studies from Ethiopia, Tanzania and Uganda.
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Ethiopia
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Tanzania
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Connect farmers to markets
Tanzania sunflower market assessment 2022
A report on the state of Tanzania’s sunflower market and recommendations for smallholder farmers to increase their yields.
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Tanzania
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Act on climate change
Boost productivity
Connect farmers to markets
Farm Africa Annual Review 2021
We are proud to have reached more than one million people across eastern Africa in 2021 with support that is needed now more than ever.
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Annual Report and Financial Statements 2021
Farm Africa’s 2021 Annual Report and Financial Statements.
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Sustainable livelihoods through ecosystem conservation: Update on the Bale Eco-region Phase II project
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Ethiopia
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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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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
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
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
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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Ethiopia
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Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
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Ethiopia
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Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
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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Ethiopia
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Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Impact of increased women’s incomes on nutrition
Farm Africa’s Livestock for Livelihoods project helped Ugandan and Ethiopian pastoralist women set up sustainable, small-scale goat-rearing enterprises. This booklet highlights how Farm Africa improved 10,000 women’s access to credit facilities and incomes by adding value to livestock products and opening up improved opportunities for sales.
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Ethiopia
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Tanzania
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Boost productivity
Connect farmers to markets
Increase access to finance
Support businesses
Business formalisation in Tanzania – Learnings from the DECIDE project
This learning piece shares findings from Farm Africa’s DECIDE project’s work in facilitating MSMEs to comply with Tanzania’s legal framework, business registration requirements and documentation required to access social security for the business and its employees. It highlights some of the obstacles they face in transitioning into the formal economy.
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Tanzania
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Connect farmers to markets
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Act on climate change
Increase incomes
Protect ecosystems
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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Ethiopia
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Act on climate change
Increase incomes
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Uganda
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Connect farmers to markets
Increase access to finance
Support businesses
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Uganda
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Connect farmers to markets
Increase access to finance
Support businesses
Regenerating our Soils – Cases and Success Stories from the Regenerative Agriculture project in Kenya
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Kenya
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Increase food security and nutrition
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Regenerating our Soils – Cases and Success Stories from the Regenerative Agriculture project in Kenya
This booklet tells the stories of farmers involved in AGRA’s “Regenerative agriculture through the development of the pulses value chain” pilot project, which ran from July 2020 to October 2021, AGRA, with funding from IKEA Foundation, and in partnership with Farm Africa and Cereal Growers Association (CGA) in Embu and Makueni Counties of Kenya.
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Kenya
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Kenya
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De-risking smallholders’ enterprises
This three-page document summarises the results and learning from Farm Africa’s Growing Futures youth horticulture project in western Kenya from 2019 to 2021.
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Kenya
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Boost youth employment
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Ethiopia
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Empower women
Increase incomes
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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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase incomes
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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
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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Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes