Agriculture Growth Program – Livestock Growth Project (AGP-LGP)

The overall objective of Agricultural Growth Program - Livestock Growth Project (AGP-LGP) is to improve smallholder incomes and nutritional status through investments in selected livestock value chains. This investment, in concert with the crop value chain program "Agriculture Growth Program-Value Chain Enhancement" (AGP-VCE) will serve as part of USAID's contribution to the Government of Ethiopia's (GoE's) Agricultural Development Program (AGP). AGP-LGP will foster growth and reduce poverty through improving the competitiveness of selected livestock value chains in target woredas to the benefit of large numbers of smallholders and pastoralists. Additionally, AGP-LGP will reduce hunger through income increases and job creation for rural households. AGP-LGP shall also coordinate closely with Improving Productivity and Market Services (IPMS) project focused on fruit and vegetable, poultry and dairy value chains.