Farmer Empowerment & Sustainable Agriculture
At Greener Ethiopia, empowering farmers with knowledge, resources, and sustainable practices is key to achieving long-term food security, resilient livelihoods, and equitable rural development.
What We Do
Provide training in climate-smart agriculture: equipping farmers with techniques that adapt to changing climate, soil and rainfall conditions.
Support formation and strengthening of cooperatives enabling smallholder farmers to pool resources, access markets, and benefit from collective action.
Promote sustainable income-generation opportunities with special emphasis on women and youth, to ensure inclusive growth and economic empowerment.
Provide resources and support (e.g. seeds, seedlings, tools) to enable farmers to adopt diversified and climate-resilient agriculture (including agroforestry, fruit tree planting, etc.).
Offer ongoing technical support and follow-up, to ensure adoption of sustainable practices, soil conservation, and long-term productivity.
Our key activities
Climate-Smart Agriculture Training
Train farmers in water-efficient farming, soil conservation, regenerative agriculture, and agroforestry.
Cooperative Formation & Strengthening
Support farmers to organize into cooperatives for shared resources, market access, and collective bargaining power.
Distribution of Seeds & Tools
Provide improved seeds, tree seedlings, and essential tools to help farmers diversify production and boost yields.
Women & Youth Economic Inclusion
Develop targeted income-generation initiatives to empower women and youth as key actors in rural development.
Demonstration Plots & Field Schools
Establish learning sites where farmers can observe and practice sustainable farming techniques.
Ongoing Technical Support
Offer continuous coaching, farm visits, and follow-ups to ensure adoption of improved methods.
Why It Matters
Smallholder farmers are the backbone of Ethiopia’s rural economy, yet they face challenges such as unpredictable rainfall, soil degradation, low productivity, and limited market access. Empowering farmers with climate-smart skills, tools, and cooperative structures creates long-term food security, increased incomes, and more resilient livelihoods while reducing pressure on natural ecosystems.
Our Impact
Trained farmers in sustainable agriculture, improving productivity and environmental stewardship.
Strengthened farmer cooperatives, expanding market access and economic opportunity.
Promoted income diversification for women and youth, enhancing financial stability.
Supported adoption of agroforestry and soil conservation, improving soil fertility and reducing land degradation.
Increased resilience to climate variability through climate-smart practices.
Support our farmer empowerment mission: whether by donating to fund training and inputs, volunteering to provide technical support, or collaborating to scale climate-smart agriculture across more rural communities.