Ethiopian smallholder farmers are heavily dependent on subsistence agriculture. The Ethiopian government launched the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in 2005 in partnership with international organizations, aid donors. The program finances conditional or unconditional cash or food transfers for undertaking public works or social infrastructure e.g. building terraced hill slopes for water retention etc. in response to chronic food insecurity or short-term shocks like droughts targeting the highly-climate vulnerable population. On an annual basis, the program reaches over 8 million households or about 7% of the population. It is one of the largest such programs in Africa and is embedded in the Government of Ethiopia\u2019s Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ethiopian smallholder farmers are heavily dependent on subsistence agriculture. The Ethiopian government launched the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) in 2005 in partnership with international organizations, aid donors. The program finances conditional or unconditional cash or food transfers for undertaking public works or social infrastructure e.g. building terraced hill slopes for water retention etc. in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":230,"featured_media":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42639","case_studies","type-case_studies","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n