Programme
Complete
Food security in Tigray
Country
Ethiopia
Running from
2012-2017
People reached
6,400
Key focus areas
Boost youth employment
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Between 2012 and 2017, Farm Africa ran a project based in the central zone of the Tigray region where 80% of the population live in rural areas and levels of poverty and malnutrition are very high. This project worked directly with nearly 6,400 women and landless young people, providing them with crops, livestock and training.
6,400
women and landless young people received support to help increase their incomes and improve their nutrition standards.
Cereals form a large part of the region’s diet. But as women have limited involvement in crop production and livestock management, they have limited access to essential nutritious foods such as milk, eggs, fruit and vegetables.
Farm Africa supported communities to increase their annual income through beekeeping, goat rearing and poultry farming, as well as develop fruit and vegetable orchards on rehabilitated land. The community members explored opportunities in value addition by processing green pepper into pepper sauce. In addition, they developed a calendar identifying key shortage periods and introducing different types of grasses and shrubs to ensure adequate year-round forage supply.
This project was funded with UK aid from the UK Government and Irish Aid.
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Tales from Tigray.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Tales from Tigray.
Series of stories from Farm Africa’s Sustainable Agriculture for Improved Food Security project.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Introduction from Farm Africa.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Introduction from Farm Africa.
Farm Africa’s interventions in Ahferom Woreda, Tigray Region in Ethiopia, drew to a close in 2017. This is an introduction to the project’s achievements by Farm Africa’s Ethiopia Country Director, Yasmin Abdulwassie.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part one: Integrated watershed management.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Protect ecosystems
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part one: Integrated watershed management.
Back in the early 1990s Tigray was barren, without the lush green grasses and vegetarian visible today. Over the last 20 years, Farm Africa has deployed its expertise in watershed management to help the local community rehabilitate the ecosystem that underpins local communities’ livelihoods.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Protect ecosystems
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part two: Fruit and vegetable production.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part two: Fruit and vegetable production.
Increased access to water has enabled farmers to grow a variety of fruits and vegetables at higher profit margins and with higher nutritional value.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Boost productivity
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part three: Poultry production.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part three: Poultry production.
Poultry rearing can be a useful way to generate regular revenue for poor households with limited access to land and labour.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part four: Goat and sheep rearing.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part four: Goat and sheep rearing.
Sheep and goats are valuable assets that can be a powerful springboard for income diversification and further asset accumulation for female-headed households.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Empower women
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part five: Honey production and marketing.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part five: Honey production and marketing.
Ethiopia is the largest honey producer in sub-Saharan Africa, producing on average 45,000 metric tonnes (MT) of raw honey annually.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Increase incomes
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part six: Small-scale irrigation.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
Sustainable agriculture for improved food security in Tigray, Ethiopia. Part six: Small-scale irrigation.
Small-scale irrigation includes a wide range of techniques and approaches that supply water to land with the aim of improving soil-water management.
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Country
Ethiopia
Key focus areas
Increase food security and nutrition
