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Webinar with IFAD: Financial measures improving rural livelihoods in Ethiopia

4R Solution project in collaboration with Solutions from the Land (SfL) and International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFDC) is hosting a webinar on how financial measures improving rural livelihoods through 4R Solution project and IFADs Rural financial intermediation programme. 4R Solution project is a Global Affairs Canada funded project being implemented in Ethiopia, Ghana and Senegal in partnership with Fertilizer Canada, CDF Canada and African Plant Nutrition Institute. The project’s aim is to show how adopting more sustainable farming practices can increase resilience, incomes, and food security, and reduce poverty for 80,000 smallholder farmers, particularly women. IFAD’s Rural financial intermediation programme is a multi-stakeholder funded project in Ethiopia to improve livelihoods and to reduce vulnerability and poverty through increased incomes and better risk management through financial and nonfinancial measures. This will be achieved through a nationwide network of more than 11,000 RUSACCOs, their secondary structures (the Unions) and 38 MFIs, with increased focus on marginalized areas. SfL produced a video and report to highlight not just the initial improvements in production through nutrient management through 4R Solution project, but also the strides Fertilizer Canada and other implementing partners are making to increase farmer knowledge, develop finance models, improve marketing channels, and elevate more women farmers to leadership roles. The objective of the webinar is to share the emerging success as well as challenges in Ethiopia through these two different projects and explore how the guiding principles can be adapted elsewhere in Africa and the world, and how the two institutions can develop partnership and support the initiatives.