The Rural Agricultural Productivity Improvement and Development (RAPID) project is designed to bring measurable improvement to the food security of 6600 households in the Kacha Bira, Lanfuro and Shashogo woredas of the Southern Nations and Nationalities People’s Region (SNNPR) of Ethiopia.
Faced with the challenge of soaring food prices, RAPID supports farmers to generate income both from crop-farming and livestock rearing. RAPID also builds the capacity of local institutions, community organizations and the private sector.
Two main intervention methods are used in the RAPID project: the Prosperity Realized through Irrigation and Smallholder Markets (PRISM), which enables smallholder farmers to become entrepreneurs by transforming their resources in a sustainable manner, and the Watershed Management approach. Both approaches are based on short-term interventions designed to yield long-term impacts.
This project is funded by:
co-financed by:
IDE Ethiopia and SOS Sahel Ethiopia