The Agriculture Knowledge, Learning, Documentation and Policy Project
These Field Notes from the AKLDP examine the impacts of the El Nino drought on young female youth and women in North and South Gondar. The notes describe impacts on workload, health and diet, home and community life, and education, including high school drop-out rates. View the Field Notes El Nino Impacts Rural Women
The AKLDPs first blog highlighted the unintended finding of an AKLDP bio-fertilizers assessment on the yields of faba beans, chickpeas and follow-on cereal crops AKLDP Inoculants brief Feb 2016 Shalo Wakeyo, a farmer from Sagure-Mole kebele, Arsi Zone, carried out a field trial to establish ‘once and for all’ the respective post harvest losses from…
In November 2015 the AKLDP carried out an assessment among smallholder farmers in Oromia Region, Ethiopia on the impact of bio-fertilizers on the yields of faba beans and chickpeas and follow-on cereal crops. The full findings of the assessment will be posted shortly on the AKLDP web-site agri-learning-ethiopia.org As often happens, the assessment threw-up an…
Under our research grant program, our university and other research partners are finalising eight research reports with direct policy relevance to agriculture and pastoralism in Ethiopia. These reports will be published in early 2016 and summaries of the research topics can be found here.
The AKLDP is producing rapid analysis of the drought in Ethiopia to support aid responses. We are producing Field Notes which summarise how farmers describe the devastating impacts of the drought in Amhara, Oromia and Tigray regions, and Food Price briefs to track rising cereal and pulse prices, and food security implications. These Field Notes are now available:…
The AKLDP is conducting real time tracking of food prices and food availability in drought-affected areas of Ethiopia. For more information contact Adrian Cullis in Addis Ababa.
This new Technical Brief from the AKLDP reviews rainfall in Ethiopia from June to September 2015, and explains how the failure of the summer kiremt rains has affected agricultural production and underpins the Humanitarian Requirements Document released in December 2015. Download the Technical Brief AKLDP El Nino Rains Technical Brief
With growing concern in Ethiopia about the failed spring rains and erratic summer rains, government, donors and
The Agribusiness Marketing and Development Project (AMDe) is Feed the Future’s main project in Ethiopia for support agriculture value chain development. The external mid-term evaluation of the project is now complete and the report can be downloaded here AGP-AMDe_MTE final.
The US Government’s Feed the Future program in Ethiopia aims to support inclusive agriculture sector growth and improve nutrition, and funds projects valued at $273 million. This mid-term evaluation of the program focuses on the five main Feed the Future projects, which in terms of funding, comprise approximately 78% of the overall program. The evaluation report assesses performance…