program

for urban farmers urban agricultural program.

There are about 1,700 families involved in this program

and as you can see, it's very intensive agriculture,

everything from hanging the planters

off the walls over up the

front yard of her home

to a very diversified mean any farmer in the world would be

quite impressed I think by what is happening here

because there's great diversification of the

things that are being grown.. the chard

and basil and herbs, and as you can see banana plants etc.

Plan starts this by giving high-grade seds to

these farmers so that they have a high

opportunity for success but then they just take over and do it all on their

own.

You'll see that there's even a water reservoir

because she's been so successful Plan Ethiopia provided a water reservoir

so that

she's able to keep the crops going during the dry weather

but this is a great example of a different type of business enterprise

so it's a condition of the assistance to being part of the program to be part of

the credit program

the village Savings and Loan so these urban farmers are all part of that

so that they're able to leverage their their work

and leverage their income as a result. They're able to make the

investments necessary.

This is a pretty self-sustaining little enterprise here,

with compost from home being used to fertilize etc.

High-quality seeds again being maintained

and as you can see the quality of the product is

is quite significant and so sales in the market are

good we're told and and thats pumping household income quite substantially.

So all of this is an important part of

being able to make sure that the household

is food secure and is economically secure.