In Ethiopia, intensification of agricultural production is the primary focus of the government’s poverty reduction strategy. Livestock constitute an invaluable resource providing essential goods and services to small-scale poor farmers and their families and communities.

Based on research presented in ?Institutional Alternatives in African Smallholder Irrigation: :Lessons from International Experience with Irrigation Management Transfer (IWMI Research Report 60)? by Tushaar Shah, Barbara van Koppen, Marna de Lange, Madar Samad, and Douglas Merrey.