The Regional Program on Livestock and Pastoralism for Climate Adaptation in the Eastern/Horn of Africa region will be implemented in four transboundary group areas, including Mandera and Karamoja (Ethiopia), Mara-Serengeti (Tanzania), and Bahr Al Arab (Sudan and South Sudan).
Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda are other countries planned for the project funded by the European Union with 47 million euros, 6.25 million of which are for Addis Ababa, the local State Ministry revealed.
Livestock State Minister Fikru Regassa highlighted the fight against climate change and local efforts to confront its effects, mainly in the pastoral area.
FAO Representative in Ethiopia, Farayi Zimudzi, in turn, commented that the program is in line with the strategic framework of the UN specialized agency of “Better production, better nutrition, better environment, and better life.”
Zimudzi added that the Ethiopian Agriculture Ministry is the leading implementing partner of the initiative and assumes coordination functions at the federal, regional, and cluster levels (a group of interrelated companies and institutions, geographically concentrated, which compete in the same business).
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