The Livelihoods Integration Unit-at the core of Ethiopia’s famine early warning system
This USAID-commissioned project, implemented by FEG, is the largest livelihoods assessment effort ever undertaken in Ethiopia or anywhere else in Africa. The program began in late 2006. As of 2010 the livelihoods of all of Ethiopia’s 60 million farming population have been identified geographically in Livelihood Zones and surveyed to give a series of detailed livelihood baselines. These are now the basis the government’s famine early warning system, but they also have wider significance for informing development policy on the realities of rural poverty and wealth, and for helping to evaluate the impact of the massive national Productive Safety Nets Program.
For more information on the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development's Livelihoods Integration Unit, please visit their website: LIU
