Community-built Irrigation Canal

An irrigation site at the Awda-Guanda Productive Safety Net site, in Tigray, Ethiopia. Through the USAID-supported Productive Safety Net Program beneficiaries receive food aid or cash in exchange for labor towards public works. Smallholder farmers around the country depend on rain-fed agriculture. Rain harvesting and irrigation canals such as this one are built by communities and who, as they prosper, purchase small water pumps.

 

Photo: Nena Terrell, USAID Ethiopia

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