SIA – Programme "Feed Good Ethiopia" for sustainable food systems and a healthy environment

About this project

There is now a scientific consensus on the need for a radical change in our food systems to ensure food and nutritional security for all and to achieve the SDGs while preserving the environment (IAASTD, IPES-Food, IPBES, UN TEEBAgriFood, ...). Agroecological transition is one of the major ways of radically transforming food systems (HLPE 2020 report). Indeed, agroecological principles emphasize the right to food and the active participation of vulnerable groups and women in food strategies, they promote regenerative practices and insist on diversity and resilience in the whole food system. In that line, the outcome aims at strengthening the commitment of the programme's target actors, especially smallholder farmers, to the co-construction of sustainable food systems and a healthy environment. Those efforts will contribute to improve smallholder farmers’ living conditions, in particular young people and women, in rural zones of Oromia and Amhara. The strategies put in place will tackle economic, social and political challenges: on the economic side, farmers will be accompanied to engage in agroecological production methods (training, exchange visits, access to micro-financial services, seeds banks …) and to strengthen fair and sustainable collection, storage, processing and marketing systems (coaching, linkages, access to finance). On the social side, a strong focus will be given to gender specially to allow women to participate more in the different levels of management of t…

Published by

NGO SOS Hunger · National NGO

Countries

Ethiopia

Sectors

Food security policy and administrative management

Focus

Nutrition · Also contributesGender equality · Also contributesDesertification · Also contributesBiodiversity · Also contributesClimate mitigation · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Also contributesEnvironment · Main focusGood governance · Main focusTrade development · Main focus

Places

Ethiopia, Region Oromia, Region Amhara

Funded by

SOS Hunger, Direction-Générale Coopération au Développement et Aide humanitaire

Accountable

SOS Hunger

Published by NGO SOS Hunger to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 28 Mar 2025 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: BE-BCE_KBO-0425410524-prg2022-5-ET.

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