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Table 2. List of NAPA priority projects.
In Ethiopia, traditional and contemporary coping mechanisms to climate variability and extremes
include changes in cropping and planting practices, reduction of consumption levels, collection of
wild foods, use of inter-household transfers and loans and increased petty commodity production. In
addition, temporary and/or permanent migration, grain storage, sale of assets such as livestock and
agricultural tools, mortgaging of land, credit from merchants and money lenders, use of early
warning system, food appeal/aid have been part of traditional ways to secure livelihoods when
adapting to climate variability.
The NAPA identified in total some 40 projects, with the priority ones broadly focusing in areas of
human and institutional capacity building, improving natural resource management through
community participation, enhancing irrigation agriculture and water harvesting, strengthening early
warning systems and awareness rising (see table 2). The NAPA stresses the importance of integrated
management approaches, in watershed management and management of land use.
The PASDEP also identifies several policy measures that should reduce climate vulnerability, e.g.
related to the development of water resources, such as small-scale irrigation and water harvesting
as well as on-farm diversification, which should help insulate the agriculture sector from droughts.
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