FAO Priorities in Ethiopia
FAO’s programmes and projects in Ethiopia are guided by the five-year Country Programming Framework (2022–2025), which focuses on the following strategic priority areas:
1. Innovation for sustainable agricultural production: Promoting the adoption of innovative approaches for sustainable crops, livestock, fisheries/aquaculture, and forestry production systems.
2. Nutrition for the most vulnerable and safe food for everyone: Strengthening safe, nutrition-sensitive, and climate-resilient food systems to end hunger, achieve food security, and improve nutrition.
3. Natural resource management and agricultural production systems: Enhancing natural resource management and agricultural production systems to protect, restore, and promote the sustainable use of ecosystems.
4. Promotion of inclusive economic growth and reducing inequalities: Fostering inclusive and gender-responsive economic growth, improving livelihoods, and working towards the eradication of extreme poverty.
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Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme
25/02/2026
Despite being cultivated by nearly five million farmers, sorghum yields and commercialization have stagnated due to persistent structural and policy-related...
FAO Ethiopia Newsletter, December 2025, Issue #6
05/12/2025
This edition showcases stories of FAO support to farmers, pastoralists, and communities across Ethiopia; progress made through our emergency and resilience...
Analysis of nutrition-sensitive public expenditure in Ethiopia’s agrifood sector to enable healthy diets
28/05/2025
This study aims to provide an analysis of nutrition-sensitive public expenditure in the food and agriculture sector in Ethiopia, to inform and support...
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FAO Representation in Ethiopia
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
PO Box: 5536
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: (+251) 116 478 888