ICRAF in Ethiopia
Priorities
• Bringing quality germplasm and services closer to
farmers through rural resources centres.
• Adding values to hillsides, unproductive exclosures
and rehabilitated gullies.
• Enhancing food and water security for the rural
poor by engaging national partners to scale up
profitable and higher food production systems
through the use of trees.
• Women’s livelihood improvement through
agroforestry to increase women’s economic power
and resilience capacity.
• Improving the income of poor households by better
linking them to markets.
• Restoring landscapes to enhance ecosystem functions,
services and resilience for better supply of food, feed,
and energy, and the whole ecosystem wellbeing.
Progress
• Helped understand the impact of trees and management
strategies on crop productivity, water resources and
nutrient recycling in distinct agro-ecologies through long-
term experimental trials in East Shewa and East Wellega.
• Undertook temperate and tropical fruit trees research in
four regions (Amhara, Oromia, South and Tigray).
• Established and strengthened rural resource centres in
Bako-Tibe, Bale, Atsbi and Ziway (Batu).
• Engaged in watershed-based landscape restoration to
transform lives and landscapes in Gergera-Atsbi.
• Added value to hillsides and exclosures through the use of
smart hill-top and -side water harvesting technologies and
the elaboration of a climate smart management plan,
including the integration of fruits, fodder, timber, firewood
and fertilizer trees/shrubs.
• Transformed gullies from threats into opportunities:
offering livelihood options to landless youth and women.
• Supported Ethiopia’s Sustainable Land Management
Program with climate smart agriculture.
• Established robust tree seed system and supported
forest landscape restoration.
Partners
CGIAR is a global research partnership for a food secure future
Projects
• Enhancing food and water security for improved rural
commercialization project
• Africa-RISING (Africa- research in sustainable
intensification for the next generation) program
• Integrating high value fruit trees project
• Enhancing Integrated Watershed Management with
Climate Smart Agriculture in Gergera Watershed project
• Trees for Food Security Project: bringing trees on farm
and landscape
After
Before
Low-cost water
harvesting structure
Water conveyer
Fiji Temperate Fruit
Tree Farm
Wukro Saint Mary
Technical College
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Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural
Research
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