USAID Economic Growth and Resilience Office Director Amber Lily Kenny and Ethiopia’s Agriculture State Minister Meles Mekonen, launched two agricultural projects worth a total of $86.5 million aimed at increasing incomes and reduce the rate of malnutrition in Ethiopia.
USAID announced that the two projects are a $77 million Feed the Future Ethiopia Transforming Agriculture, and a $9.5 million Feed the Future Ethiopia Seed Systems.
Transforming Agriculture is a five-year project that will support Ethiopia’s agriculture and food system actors in 132 woredas to sustainably improve the diets of 7 million people, particularly women and children, it said.
The project includes an Enset (false banana) processing machine production scaling-up initiative that would assist Enset producers to improve their yield and reduce food loss and poor product quality.
It also expressed that Ethiopia Seed Systems is again a five-year project that will be implemented in 20 woredas in eight regions to increase quality-assured seed supply in local markets so that smallholders can have access to quality seeds of their preferred crop-varieties.
The two new projects work with agribusinesses, universities, and other agricultural partners to develop and strengthen resilient, inclusive, and sustainable agricultural and food systems.
For 120 years, the United States and Ethiopia have partnered in health, education, agriculture, food security, science and innovation technology and the environment, and many other areas to improve the lives of all Ethiopians.
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