FOOD SYSTEM RESILIENCE PROGRAM (FSRP) – Research Sub-Component

FSRP is a World Bank-funded initiative to build climate resilience and preparedness for food insecurity in Ethiopia.

Intervention areas

Enhancing agricultural research technology generation and source technology production

• Adaptation and generation of selected pipeline technologies
• Adaptation and generation of demand-driven technologies on value chain commodities
• Source technology production and semi-commercialization

 Promote farmer’s adoption of research technology

• Pre-extension demonstration  of improved agricultural technologies
• Large-scale demonstration of improved agricultural technologies
• Promotion of agricultural technologies to urban and peri-urban areas
• Develop e-information system

Building capacity of research system

• Human capacity development
• Physical capacity building
  • Developing irrigation infrastructure,
  • Renovation of laboratories and other research facilities,
  • Establishing ICT facilities,
  • Establishing automated weather station
• Scaling up of new approaches introduced through policy reform