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IFAD in Ethiopia: voices from the field

© ILRI 		Promising technologies not enough on their own to bring about widespread change in livestock systems

In this short video, ILRI's Alan Duncan introduces the IFAD-funded 'Fodder Adoption Project' based at ILRI

Source: ILRI
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© IFAD 		Microfinance in Ethiopia - mapping a way out of poverty

In a country where almost half of the population barely survives on less than a dollar a day, microcredit offers poor people a unique opportunity to engage in small businesses or improve their agricultural production. With the support of IFAD, microfinance institutions such as the Amhara Credit and Saving Institution (ACSI) extend small loans to poor people in rural areas to help them improve their incomes and overcome poverty.

Source: IFAD
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Voices from the desert: living with desertification

Diramo is 70. She lives in the village of Siminto in Ethiopia where she was born. She grew up as a herder, moving with her family’s animals to find water and food, feeding her children with the milk and meat. But now the abundant grasslands that the cattle fed on are gone and the people are no longer able to migrate in search of pasture. They grow what crops they can but droughts are frequent.

Source: IFAD
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Statement by Ethiopia

Statement BY Mr. Belay Ejigu, Acting Minister of Agriculture, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Source: IFAD
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Statistics
Projects: 16

Total cost:
US$1013.2 million

Approved IFAD loan:
US$392.9 million

Directly benefiting:
10,410,000 households
Contact Information

Robson Mutandi
Country programme manager
Via Paolo Di Dono, 44
Rome, Italy
Work: +39 0654592260
Fax: +39 0654593260
r.mutandi@ifad.org

Hannington Sebaduka
Associate Country Programme Manager
ECA Complex UNDP Old Building Ground Floor North (GFN) Room 018/019 PO Box 5580
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Work: +251115443122
h.sebaduka@ifad.org

Abebe Zerihun
Country Programme Officer
IFAD Country Office in Ethiopia, ECA Complex, UNDP Old Buliding. Ground Floor North (GFN), Room 018/019 P.O. Box 5580
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Work: +25 115443122
Fax: +25 1115514599
a.zerihun@ifad.org