Driving Climate-Smart Horticulture: Empowering Ethiopia’s small-scale producers through collaboration

The Accelerating Climate-Smart Horticulture in Ethiopia initiative (ACE) gathered stakeholders to support smallholder farmers facing climate risks. Through collaborative workshops, policymakers, financial institutions, researchers and private sector actors identified key solutions: financial inclusion, gender-responsive approaches, improved irrigation, diversified value chains and climate-informed insurance. Integrating climate data into lending models, ACE promotes innovative partnerships, strengthened market access and inclusive financial strategies. The initiative will scale climate-smart agriculture, empowering Ethiopian smallholder producers, particularly women and vulnerable communities.