Ethiopia

While there has been improvement in the rates of malnutrition among children under 5 in Ethiopia, the rate of progress must improve if Ethiopia is to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of halving by 2015 the number of people who suffer from hunger. The Ethiopian government has developed a National Nutrition Strategy and National Nutrition Programme, which form the framework for the MDG-F Joint Programme.

This joint programme will enable pastoral communities dependent on climate dependent livestock farming to better adapt to climate variability and climate change.

The Joint Programme on Leave No Woman Behind (LNWB) is a three-year girls’ and womens’ integrated empowerment programme that aims to test and scale-up pilot projects in different regions in Ethiopia. The Joint Programme includes components in Education and Literacy, Reproductive Health including HIV/AIDS and Livelihood interventions targeting adolescent girls and women.

Ethiopia has huge potential for scaling up its production of edible oil: favorable agro-climatic conditions for increased oil seeds cultivation, the labor-intensive nature of the sub-sector, a conducive business environment, the willingness of oil seed crushers to work at full capacity and the huge local demand.