1. Characteristics of the project region and challenges and opportunities Group II Binam, Birhanu, Augustine, Buah, Irmgard, Jonathan

2. 1.Woman empowerment to improve nutritional status of the household Nutrition sensitive agricultural interventions (backyard poultry and small ruminants for women) Nutrition education (behavioural communication strategies on improved nutrition practices) Assessing the impact of NSAP on the health and nutritional status of the vulnerable groups Food safety issues?? 2. Post harvest management and value addition of agricultural products 3. Integrated crop-livestock-soil productivity enhancing interventions for different farm typologies for improved food and nutritional security Nutrient flows and nutrient use efficiency in the system Improving assess of both output and input markets by the smallholder farmers Improving overall farm productivity, profitability and synergies and trade-off Strengthening local institutions to better access to land and other productive assets, including gender transformative case studies about how institutional rules govern access to land and how they affect youth and women participation in agriculture New emerging issues

3. 4. Adoption of promising best-bet crop-livestock-soil technologies Identifying the trend and patterns of adoption including reason of non-adoption and dis-adoption Strategies to overcome barriers to adoption Develop a strategy for the adoption at scale 5. Assessing the efficacy of technology parks, mother babies and extension approach as mechanism for diffusion of technologies and broadening technology parks to include livestock activities (fodder production, crop residues conservation and use strategies, model house for poultry and small ruminants etc…)