ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some of the issues which have arisen from Christian Aid’s involvement in the Freedom From Hunger Campaign Agricultural Rehabilitation programme (FFHC/AD) which has been running since 1985 in the famine-affected areas of southern Ethiopia. Following the drought of the mid-1980s, a combination of NGO and FAO consultants, at the request of the Ethiopian government of the time, formulated a programme based on community-oriented, participatory methodology, designed to meet the short-term objectives of providing rehabilitation for drought-affected farming families, and of laying a basis for sustainable long-term development.
