Report: Creating Wealth with Seed Potatoes in Ethiopia

This briefing note highlights the major findings of the project 'Wealth creation through integrated development of potato production’, which has brought a wide range of positive livelihood changes for potato farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia. The project began in 2008 and was aimed at addressing constraints faced by potato producers in Ethiopia and improving the wealth and livelihoods of potato producers. This briefing note summarizes the findings in relation to the OECD DAC principles for evaluating development assistance: relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability. Overall, the project was scored very highly on relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and impact, and moderately on sustainability, for which challenges remain.