TRANSFORM Soil Fertility management in Ethiopia

About this project

Ethiopia has implemented a range of initiatives to enhance agricultural productivity, including providing small-scale farmers with fertilizers, high-quality seeds, and training in improved farming techniques. However, soil health continues to decline, with widespread issues such as acidity, salinity, nutrient depletion, low organic matter, and erosion, signs of persistent land degradation that threaten the sustainability of agriculture. This deterioration not only reduces crop yields but also endangers the livelihoods of millions of farmers who rely on agriculture as their primary source of income. To address the productivity gap while conserving and restoring soil health, the TRANSFORM Program aims to actively engage small-scale farmers in the solutions. TRANSFORM will be implemented over four years, from 2025 to 2028, across three regions: Oromia, Amhara, and Central Ethiopia.TRANSFORM is structured around four key components: (i) customizing soil fertility extension services to empower farmer households and communities, (ii) building a vibrant sector for soil inputs to ensure that farmers have access to essential resources, (iii) strengthening linkages between research and extension through bottom-up, participatory farmer-led action research, which promotes innovative solutions tailored to local contexts, and (iv) fostering an enabling environment for soil health and fertility to encourage collaborative efforts among stakeholders. The Program is implemented by a consortiu…

Published by

International Fertilizer Development Center · International NGO

Countries

Ethiopia

Sectors

Agricultural development

Focus

Climate mitigation · Main focusClimate adaptation · Main focusDesertification · Main focus

Funded by

Netherlands - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Commission - International Partnerships

Implemented by

Wageningen University & Research - Stichting Wageningen Research, ISRIC, ­Environment and Coffee Forest Forum (ECFF), ­SOS Sahel Ethiopia

Accountable

International Fertilizer Development Center

Published by International Fertilizer Development Center to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 30 Aug 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: US-EIN-63-0676451-XM-DAC-7-PPR-230001578.

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