Strengthening Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia: Capacity Development, Climate Resilience and Sustainable Livelihoods - GCP/ETH/096/GAF
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The Technical Support to the Second Agricultural Growth Program (TS-AGP-II) formed an integral component of Ethiopia’s broader Agricultural Growth Program (AGP-II), implemented with technical assistance from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and financial support from the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP). The project was designed to strengthen the organizational and human capacities of national and local agricultural institutions to deliver effective and sustainable extension services that improve the productivity, commercialization and resilience of smallholder farmers. Ethiopia’s agriculture, dominated by smallholder rainfed farming, remains highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and constrained by low productivity, weak pest management and insufficient livestock feed resources. In response, the project focused on three core thematic areas: (i) improved forage development to enhance livestock productivity and feed supply; (ii) promotion of integrated pest management (IPM) practices for sustainable crop protection; and (iii) mainstreaming of crosscutting issues including climate-smart agriculture (CSA), nutrition-sensitive agriculture (NSA), gender equality and, later, on-farm water and crop management (WCM) and post-harvest management (PHM) were included in response to COVID-19 challenges.