Developing Smallholder Farmers in South Ethiopia

The project will bring change to the lives of 1600 poor and vulnerable smallholder farmers and their families (9600 people) in southern highlands of Ethiopia, especially women, to become food secure, productive and self-confident agents of their own development through increased farm productivity, improved environmental management, creation of new employment opportunities, establishment and development of community support systems, women's empowerment and inclusion of socially marginalised groups;