Emergency livelihood support to el Niño-affected agropastoral communities in Afar, Amhara, Oromia, Snnpr and Tigray regional states

The El Niño global climactic event wreaked havoc on Ethiopia’s summer rains on the heels of failed spring rains in 2015, driving food insecurity, malnutrition and water shortages in affected areas of the country.Large areas of these regions have been affected by the ensuing livelihoods crises as smallholder farmers and agropastoralists have missed or experienced below-average consecutive rains of 2014 and 2015.The project aimed to contribute to improved food and nutrition security of drought affected smallholder farmers and agro-pastoral communities through emergency seed intervention and capacity building on improved crop and animal feed production.