USAID administrators from The Ethiopia Mission and the Washington-based Bureau for Food Security and the ILSSI External Advisory Committee have visited research sites on 17-19 May 2017 in farmer’s fields (Robit-Bata Kebele, Bahir-Dar Zuria Woreda and Dangishta Kebele, Dangila Woreda) where Innovation Lab for Small Scale Irrigation (ILSSI ) and related Sustainably Intensified Production Systems Impact on Nutrition (SIPSIN) projects are being led by Faculty of Civil and Water Resource Engineering. The objective was to see firsthand the field research that has been underway since 2014 and to interact with staff, students, and farmers engaged in this research.
ILSSI partners include Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, the International Water Management Institute, the International Livestock Research Institute and the International Food Policy Research Institute
It was agreed that ILSSI continues to evolve in a very impressive way. With its current engagements at field level, the advisory committee sees clear evidence that the project is moving towards its goal of affecting the livelihoods of people through the successful generation and adoption of small scale irrigation product and know-how.
The advisory committee was also impressed with the involvement of students in conducting field research while using the data for graduate thesis.
The participants were USAID mission from USA embassy in Addis Ababa; USAID from USA DC office; IWMI; ILSSI Advisory Committee; faculties from Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University; ILRI.
