Project profile — Support to Phase II of Ethiopia’s Agricultural Growth Program

• Ethiopia (100.00%)

• Water And Sanitation: Water resources conservation (including data collection) (14015) (30.00%)
• Agricultural development:
Agricultural development (31120) (30.00%)
Food crop production (31161) (20.00%)
Agricultural research (31182) (10.00%)
• General Environmental Protection: Environmental research (41082) (10.00%)

• Environmental sustainability (cross-cutting) (principal objective)
• Participatory development and good governance (significant objective)
• Trade development (significant objective)
• Climate Change Adaptation (significant objective)

The Agricultural Growth Program II project aims to increase agricultural production and productivity and better link smallholder farmers to markets. The AGP II project also aims to contribute to improved nutritional status by diversifying and improving dietary consumption. AGP II project's main components focus on: (1) agricultural research and dissemination to increase productivity; (2) support to public agricultural services (extension services) to increase their access to more farmers; (3) small scale irrigation for increased production, including of fruits/vegetable with high nutritional values; and (4) agricultural marketing, value chain development and agri-business for improved market access. AGP II is expected to reach 1.6 million farmers (40% women). Activities include: (1) supporting the production of 6,290 quintals of breeder seeds for major crop varieties; releasing 280 new technologies to reach farmers; (2) construction/rehabilitation and equipping of 2,800 farmers training centers established at the village level and 800 animal health clinics; (3) rehabilitation and upgrading of small scale irrigation schemes or establishment of new ones with 55,000 ha for 230,000 farmers provided with irrigated water; (4) support to 3,200 commercially oriented smallholder farmers group to develop and implement their business plans, including through the provision of equipment and inputs, establishment of market centers and development of linkages between value-chain participants.

The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: (1) increased yield for selected crops in targeted households; (2) increased yield for selected animal products in targeted households; and (3) increased agricultural production (selected crop and selected animal products) sold by targeted beneficiaries.

Results achieved at the end of the project (June 2020) include: (1) reached 2,324,396 people, of whom 855,378 women; (2) 1,504 million, of whom 512,186 women smallholder farmers adopted at least 1 improved agricultural technology; (3) promoted 487 technologies to public extension services; (4) produced and provided 42,984 quintals of different basic and pre-basic crop seeds to farmers; (5) provided 77,554 smallholder farmers (17,766 women farmers) with new or improved irrigation services; (6) established 325 irrigation water user associations; (7) provided 23,290 hectares of land with irrigation and drainage services; (8) supplied 36,536,823 quintals of different seeds to smallholder farmers through various seed supply channels (private agents, farmer groups and cooperatives or union and primary cooperatives); (9) signed 47 commercial market contracts between producer groups or cooperatives; and (10) 62% of women and 59% of youth Common Interest Groups are running viable business activities. The Agricultural Growth Program II project (AGP II) is one of the flagship programs targeting smallholder farmers with the objective of increasing their agricultural productivity and the commercialization of their production. AGP II contributed to dietary diversity and consumption.

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