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 (MCC) Canada is supporting Food for the Hungry (FH) Ethiopia with a two-year agriculture and livelihoods project in the Dalo-Komto landscape of the Wayu Tuka Woreda, East Wollega Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia.
As a result of progressive decline of productivity because of biodiversity loss, land degradation and soil infertility, the communities of the Dalo-Komto landscape continue to face issues of food insecurity, inaccessibility to water facilities, lack of livestock pasture, and soil erosion. To address these concerns, FH Ethiopia will strengthen the practice of conservation agriculture, improve integrated soil fertility management, support multipurpose nurseries operation and management and implement forest/fodder tree planting. Water management will be improved by the implementation of soil and water conservation activities, surface drainage structures and gully rehabilitation technologies. Livestock and range management will be enhanced through training on livestock production and management. The inclusion and empowerment of women and other vulnerable groups will be a focus in all these activities.
FH Ethiopia aims to work with 1,320 households (4,630 direct participants) and an additional 4,621 people through broader landscape-level activities, for a total of 9,251 people reached.