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New Work Opportunities in Agriculture for 600,000 Ethiopians

The agriculture-focused Dignified Employment for Youth in Ethiopia ("ADEY") Program, a a flagship partnership between the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation (ATI) and the Mastercard Foundation, will enable new and sustained work opportunities by engaging young people in agricultural inputs and outputs marketing, value addition and agro-processing, livestock, irrigation and mechanization services, availing affordable access to finance, digital agriculture, and ensuring policy improvements. Find out more.

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The agriculture-focused Dignified Employment for Youth in Ethiopia (“ADEY”) Program will support over 600,000 young people, 80 percent of whom will be young women, to engage in inclusive and dignified work opportunities in the agriculture sector.

Samuel Yalew Adela, Mastercard Foundation Country Director for Ethiopia.

The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation (ATI) and the Mastercard Foundation have announced the agriculture-focused Dignified Employment for Youth in Ethiopia (“ADEY”) Program. ADEY will enable new and sustained work opportunities by engaging young people in agricultural inputs and outputs marketing, value addition and agro-processing, livestock, irrigation and mechanization services, availing affordable access to finance, digital agriculture, and ensuring policy improvements.

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