CIFOR-ICRAF has operated in Ethiopia since 2005, and has forged long-term collaborations with various partners in government, research institutes, civil society, and the private sector to accelerate the transformation of Ethiopia’s rural livelihoods in both agricultural and forest landscapes trees and forests.

Main research areas include:

• Restoration of degraded landscapes, including tree seed portfolios for better access to quality tree germplasm and promotion of farmer-managed natural regeneration
• Support for Ethiopia’s forestry sector, including: research on factors hindering sustainable forest sector development; capacity building in forestry education, research, and extension institutions; support for national forest law revision processes and sectoral plans; research on benefit-sharing mechanisms to encourage community and private sector engagement; technical, managerial and institutional innovations to conserve forests; and sharing of lessons to inform national forest policymakers, practitioners and global forestry actors.
• Regreening and agroforestry solutions, including developing effective and efficient tree product value chains and markets, engagement of rural youth and women in tree-based value chains, for forest landscape restoration, and support for the establishment of the national agroforestry and watershed multi-stakeholders’ platform
• Promotion of integrated watershed and natural resources development though climate-smart practices;
• Green jobs through establishments of rural resource centres for small-scale farmers, youth and women.