Building Climate Resilience: Strengthening Sustainable Farming and Food Security in Ethiopia

The partnership project brings together Agriterra, ETG Commodities, the University of Copenhagen and Mary’s Meals in a DGBP initiative that addresses post-harvest losses, promotes climate-smart agriculture and introduces ventilated storage facilities in the production of soya bean, teff and maize in Ethiopia. ETG Commodities wishes to increase the sourcing options for traceable and sustainably produced soya beans, teff and maize for its local factories and thereby expand the processing of nutritious food and animal feed. 

The project works with selected farmer cooperatives and two farmer unions to promote regenerative, climate smart agriculture, the production and use of biochar and organic fertilizer amongst 10.000 farmers. Mary’s Meals will use the improved nutritious food in its school feeding programmes and raise awareness of nutrition and vitamin-enriched foods. 

The project thus strengthens nutrition, local value chains, and increases farmer resilience against droughts. The initiative started in April 2025 and will run until September 2028.