Community-led approach sustains livelihood improvement in Kotoba, Ethiopia
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In rural Ethiopia, most families are reliant on agriculture as their sole source of livelihood. Most of them face a steady decline in agricultural productivity due to the degradation of natural resources, fluctuating rainfall, reduced soil fertility, low quality livestock and poor livestock management.
As delegates gather at the Kintélé Conference Centre this week for the African Development Bank Group’s 2026 Annual Meetings, convened under the theme “Mobilising Africa’s Development Financing at Scale,” the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is pressing a sharper question on the Bank: not how much finance is mobilised, but who it serves — and whether the assumptions behind it hold up at all.
A new Barefoot Guide from the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) documents a growing continental movement — from community markets and school gardens to national parliaments and global policy forums.
As delegates gather at the Kintélé Conference Centre this week for the African Development Bank Group’s 2026 Annual Meetings, convened under the theme “Mobilising Africa’s Development Financing at Scale,” the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) is pressing a sharper question on the Bank: not how much finance is mobilised, but who it serves — and whether the assumptions behind it hold up at all.
A new Barefoot Guide from the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) documents a growing continental movement — from community markets and school gardens to national parliaments and global policy forums.
