Nature Positive Food Systems for Climate Change Adaptation (Nature+) is a Foodgrains Bank program to scale up nature-based solutions, enhance climate-resilient livelihoods, and enable women and other vulnerable people in communities— and their landscapes— to adapt to climate change.
As one of the projects in the Nature+ program, the Mennonite Central Committee Canada is supporting Migbare Senay Children and Family Support Organization (MSCFSO) with a three-year agriculture and livelihoods project in the Gonchasesoenese and Enarj Enawuga Woredas in Amhara region, Ethiopia.
As a result of climate change, biodiversity loss, and land degradation, the communities of the Gonchasesoenese and Enarj Enawuga Woredas landscape continue to face issues of food insecurity, rain variability, inaccessibility to water facilities, lack of livestock pasture, and soil erosion. In response to these issues, MSCFSO will strengthen the practice of conservation agriculture and implement farmer managed natural regeneration and enrichment planting activities. Water management will be improved through gully rehabilitation, soil and water conservation, and the construction of check dams and water wells. Livestock and range management will be enhanced through community-based breeding to improve local and indigenous livestock system, area closure fencing and retention walls, and capacity building. The inclusion and empowerment of women and other vulnerable groups will be a focus in all these activities.
MSCFSO aims to work with 3,770 participants from 975 households with a total of 5,655 people reached.