Climate-Smart Agriculture in Ethiopia

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cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.coverage.regionSub-Saharan Africa
cg.identifier.projectCCAFS: PII-FP2_CSAPartnershipsen
cg.placeWashington, DC, USAen
cg.subject.ccafsCLIMATE-SMART TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICESen
cg.subject.ccafsPRIORITIES AND POLICIES FOR CSAen
cg.subject.ciatCLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATIONen
cg.subject.ciatLAND USEen
cg.subject.ciatLIVELIHOODSen
dc.contributor.authorInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen
dc.contributor.authorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-04T18:35:59Zen
dc.date.available2018-05-04T18:35:59Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/92491
dc.titleClimate-Smart Agriculture in Ethiopiaen
dcterms.abstractThe agriculture sector is the backbone of Ethiopia’s economy and livelihoods. Yet, heavy reliance on rain-fed systems has made the sector particularly vulnerable to variability in rainfall and temperature. Climate change may decrease national gross domestic product (GDP) by 8–10% by 2050, but adaptation action in agriculture could cut climate shock-related losses by half. • Climate risk management interventions and long-term adaptation actions need to match localized vulnerabilities and impacts. The drought-prone highland areas are likely to experience more intense and irregular rainfall, affecting yields of slow maturing, long-cycle crops; however, the higher altitude moisture-sufficient parts of the highlands where cereal production is dominant are expected to increase in suitability and productivity of some cereals. Increased temperatures and extended drought periods are likely to negatively affect the lowlands, posing particular challenges to already vulnerable pastoral and agropastoral populations. • Smallholder farmers produce over 90% of the agricultural output in Ethiopia. Despite high usage of traditional production methods, there is evidence of increased use of organic fertilizers, adoption of crop varieties with higher resistance/tolerance to drought, pests, and diseases, and improved livestock feeding practices, as attempts to increase productivity and resilience, but also with cobenefits in terms of reducing agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. • Given the country’s poverty and food insecurity challenges, priorities for economic growth and increased resilience have pushed mitigation efforts backstage. Less than one-fifth of the climate finance is directed to mitigation efforts, mostly through renewable energy. Increased investments in agricultural practices that bring about mitigation co-benefits would bring out agriculture’s role as a lead sector in low-emissions development. • A large proportion of the country’s land area is undergoing some form of soil erosion or land degradation, hence CSA-related efforts have been focused on restoring degraded lands through soil and water conservation measures, agroforestry, farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR), area closures, and dissemination of improved varieties. Such CSA practices and technologies are largely supported by the government and its development partners, through research and development, rural extension and advisory services as well as direct implementation. Many of these practices are implemented within the framework of the integrated watershed management approach through projects such as the Sustainable Land Management Programme (SLMP). • Adoption levels of some CSA practices and technologies, such as conservation agriculture and agroforestry, among smallholder farmers remain low. Increased public and private support to enable access to improved inputs, equipment, credit and insurance schemes is needed to boost farmers’ ability to manage risks and invest in long-term climate actions. • Highly fragmented land units are not suited for effective implementation of some CSA practices, while land tenure regimes can significantly hinder credit access for smallholders. Ethiopia has made great effort to issue land certificates to smallholder farmers, and such programmes should be accompanied by sensitization of farmers and microfinance providers on the costs and benefits of investing in on-farm climate-smart and sustainable land management practices. • Through an ambitious policy framework built largely on the Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) Strategy and an enabling institutional infrastructure, Ethiopia has taken major steps towards mainstreaming climate change into agricultural planning. To demonstrate its unwavering commitments to green growth and food security and operationalize strategies and plans, additional national and international resources need to be mobilized over the next years, to fill existing financial gaps.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.audienceDonorsen
dcterms.audiencePolicy Makersen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationCIAT; BFS/USAID. 2017. Climate-Smart Agriculture in Ethiopia. CSA Country Profiles for Africa Series. International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT); Bureau for Food Security, United States Agency for International Development (BFS/USAID), Washington, D.C. 26 p.en
dcterms.extent26 p.en
dcterms.issued2017-12-31en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen
dcterms.publisherUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
dcterms.subjectclimate-smart agricultureen
dcterms.subjectagricultura climáticamente inteligenteen
dcterms.subjectsmallholdersen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectseguridad alimentariaen
dcterms.subjectproductivityen
dcterms.subjectadaptationen
dcterms.subjectmitigación del cambio climáticoen
dcterms.subjectlivelihoodsen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectland useen
dcterms.subjectnutritionen
dcterms.subjectgreenhouse gasesen
dcterms.subjectgases de efecto invernaderoen
dcterms.typeBrief

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