CTA Launches Initiative in Ethiopia to Help 20,000 Farmers Battle Climate Change Effects

Following past successes in Jamaica and Mali, the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, CTA, has launched a third and final stage of its initiative that supports the scaling of proven climate smart agriculture in Ethiopia.

CTA in partnership with Farm Africa kicked off this new initiative to alleviate the effects of climate change for up to 20,000 smallholder farms in Ethiopia’s Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples’ Region (SNNPR). The 22-month project will target famers in Woreda, Hadero Tunto and Damot Gale regions.

This initiative, named ‘Accelerating the Uptake of Climate-Smart Agriculture in Ethiopia’ will integrate technology with farming practices and in so doing, help scale and improve productivity.

Michael Haliu, Director of the CTA said; “We need to build the capacity of smallholder farmers to cope with unpredictable climate variability through innovations in technology and improved farming practices. This project will serve to test some of these innovations and open the way to scaling up successful practices to a large number of farmers”.

Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) will be massively adopted in the project, a game-changing agricultural approach, which will help farmers attain increased agricultural productivity, adaptation in crops to grow in changing climate conditions, and mitigation, to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Yasmin Abdulwassie, Director of Farm Africa Ethiopia, commented: “We’re delighted to be working with CTA to help farmers across SNNPR increase their yields in an environmentally sustainable way. This project will help boost not only food security but household incomes for thousands of people living in a region prone to climate extremes.”

The funding for the project will come from the European Union through CTA. Overall, through increased field uptake of CSA, the initiative will lead to improved food security and resilience for 50,000 smallholder farmers in three ACP countries.

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Published

November 8, 2018