Samenvatting

The main aim/objective of this research is to understand the opportunities for Ethiopia’s Urban Productive Safety Net Program (UPSNP) to promote Urban Agriculture (UA) as an activity to improvefood and nutrition security outcomes for the urban poor. The study was done in two sub-cities of Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, Kolfe Keraniyo and Nifas Silk lafeto. Both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods were used in the study. In total three FocusGroup Discussions were done and a total of 45 households purposively sampled were administered a semi-structured questionnaire. The study used the Food Consumption Score to measure households’ food consumption, their main sources and the main food groups consumed.