Ethiopia’s Climate Resilient Green Economy - Climate Resilience Strategy Agriculture and Forestry 2011-2025.

This Climate Resilience Strategy (CR) has three objectives: To identify the impact of current weather variability and projected future climate change on Ethiopia. To identify ways to build climate resilience and reduce the impact of current weather variability and future climate change, and estimate their cost. To map the steps necessary to finance and implement efforts to build climate resilience. The CR Strategy supplements the Green Economy Strategy (GE) by enhancing its key recommendations in terms of climate resilience. As such, both the CR and GE Strategies together form a single overarching strategy. This strategy is also supported by a number of technical reports related to the analytical work produced. Focus on agriculture Developing climate resilience is particularly crucial in agriculture, as it is a sector that is climate dependent, and therefore vulnerable to the future impacts of climate change. This Climate Resilience Strategy focuses on the agriculture and forestry sectors due to their importance to national income and livelihoods. The sectors make up 43% of our GDP, produces nine of the ten largest export commodities, and employs around 80% of the Ethiopian people. Other sectors will also face climate change challenges, as such, this strategy will act as a starting point for subsequent climate resilience analysis across the remaining sectors of the economy.