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In 2021, ICARDA will scale up vital climate-smart agricultural research towards better livelihood resilience for dryland farmers.

Mobile grinders and seed cleaning and treatment machines offer better produce for markets and income opportunities for farmers

A new study conducted in the central Ethiopian highlands reveals that introducing animal sheds in livestock markets can increase farmers’ market attendance and income. 800 farming households who own small goats and sheep herds were surveyed as part of the study, which quantified the marginal impact of experimental market sheds on their income. The results were overwhelmingly positive, and significant.