For over 30 years, responses to food insecurity in Ethiopia were dominated by emergency food aid. The Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP), launched in 2005, is a more sustainable response mechanism to recurring droughts.

Agricultural extension is crucial for promoting equality of opportunity among smallholders. Ethiopia has one of Africa’s largest extension systems: 1) 17.5 million smallholder farmers 2) 1 extension agent per 400-500 farmers.

Rural transformation and poverty reduction in Ethiopia require increased agricultural productivity. Limited availability of quality seed to smallholders is a roadblock on the way to productivity growth.

Policies banning or ignoring informal milk markets are counterproductive.

Map and graph of 2014 GHI scores by country.

This tool allows users to explore the mosaic of marketsheds that blanket sub-Saharan Africa. A market is defined as the nearest city or ‘market’ with a population greater than 20,000, 50,000, 100,000, 250,000, or 500,000.

Rapid political, economic, and agricultural changes have taken place in Ethiopia in the past two decades. Ethiopia has made major advances toward increasing growth and improving human well-being.