Key stakeholders and platforms/networks in food systems transformation in Ethiopia in 2022

The stakeholder identification is initiated under the CGIAR Research Initiative on Sustainable Healthy Diets through Food Systems Transformation (SHiFT) to identify with whom the project needs to engage with in order to achieve food system transformations. It brings together all the stakeholders working on food systems issues in a so-called ‘living’ database that can be used to quickly identify potential stakeholders in each of the SHIFT target countries. For the 2022 baseline stakeholder identification, in Ethiopia data was collected building on: existing participant lists from previous consultations under the CGIAR Research Program (CRP) on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), stakeholders known from Ethiopia Food System Synthesis Report, stakeholders known from Ethiopia Food Systems Profile, and other ongoing collaborations such as Nutrition Sensitive Agriculture (NSA) forum and more. In total, 85 stakeholders were identified, representing 8 groups of stakeholders: Non-governmental organizations - NGOs (28); Research Institutions (18); International Institutions/Donor Institutions (10); Government institutions (10); Academic Institutions (6); United Nations Organizations (6); Private sector - Buyers/ traders/aggregators (4); and Civil Society Organisations (3).