She-F.E.R.A. (Moringa): Food and Economic Resilience in Agriculture in Ethiopia

About this project

Moringa Stenopetala, Shifera in Amharic, is known in Ethiopia as the miracle tree, for its very high nutritional value and scientifically proven positive health effects. In the Southern Ethiopia Region, where it is native, moringa is traditionally cultivated mainly by women farmers, marginally for self-consumption, also due to its extreme climatic resilience, growing in semi-arid areas without irrigation. In project areas, climate change, drought, and loss of soil fertility are limiting the production of major cereal crops, especially for small-scale farmers, who have half a hectare for subsistence rainfed agriculture. The scarcity of improved inputs and sustainable techniques to conserve moisture and increase soil fertility, fight plant diseases or properly treat crops, further reduce yields and negatively affect the environment. Small-scale producers are also marginalised by supply chains for potentially commercial crops, such as beans or moringa, where a few intermediaries set prices individually. In the moringa supply chain, one of the main bottlenecks is in the supply of the raw product, while the few microenterprises that do exist have difficulty accessing the means to add value. The government extension services are trying to promote associationism between young people and women in order to aggregate value to the productions, but the results are limited both by the technical deficiencies and high turnover of their staff, and by the low technical and entrepreneurial ca…

Goals

Sustainable Development Goals this project works towards

• 2Zero Hunger
• 5Gender Equality
• 8Decent Work and Economic Growth
• 13Climate Action
• 15Life on Land

Published by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development · Government

Countries

Ethiopia

Sectors

Agricultural development

Focus

Gender equality · Main focusNutrition · Also contributesEnvironment · Also contributesGood governance · Also contributesTrade development · Also contributesClimate mitigation · Also contributesClimate adaptation · Also contributesDesertification · Also contributes

Funded by

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Implemented by

CESVI FONDAZIONE ONLUS

Accountable

AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development

Published by AICS - Italian Agency for Cooperation and Development to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 5 Sept 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: XM-DAC-6-4-013244-05-2.

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