A joint venture of SOS Sahel Ethiopia and International Development Enterprise (IDE), this project specifically targets smallholder rural farmers engaged in beekeeping and pepper production by lifting them out of income poverty by facilitating their participation in local, national and global agricultural markets.
The project is developed to directly benefit 1,200 beekeepers and 1,600 pepper-growing households in the Jabitehnan, Dangila, Lay Armachiho and Dembia woredas of the Amhara region of Ethiopia.
Activities based on the project’s objective include:
- creating market opportunities for pepper and bee productive
- enhancing the technical, administrative and managerial capacity of beekeeper cooperatives
- providing further technical knowledge to pepper growers
- strengthening honey collection and processing centers by providing them with credit, and linking them to sustainable markets
- strengthening the apiculture resource centre as well as the Zembaba Beekeeper Cooperative Union
- undertaking research and networking activities
This project is funded by: