It’s been nearly 60 years since Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia, granted 500 acres of rural land to a newly burgeoning religion whose followers had begun worshipping him as a Messiah. The ...
A coupled RUSLE-SWPT modeling study shows soil loss in Ethiopia's Upper Omo Gibe Basin rose 44 percent over three decades, ...
Ethiopia promises to meet its Millennium Goal objectives of creating a middle class and providing education and health care for its indigenous tribes. India promises to reduce its green house gas ...
As an orchestra of mosquitoes and crickets greeted the dusk, Bedlu Abera looked out over fields of rice stretching across the Ethiopian lowlands towards the horizon. A flicker of contentment crossed ...
In the highlands of western Ethiopia, a simple act of restraint is quietly rebuilding the ground beneath farmers’ feet. A new ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. In Meket – a district in Ethiopia’s Amhara National Regional State (ANRS) – efforts are underway to restore what experts say is one of the more ...
Ethiopian pastoralist Hasen Hamed is seen with his herd in the northeast Afar region in January 2016. For generations, pastoral nomads like Hamed have used traditional methods to find good pasture and ...
In the last decade, Ethiopia has invested more than US$1.2 billion annually in restoring landscapes in several regions of the country. But despite its big restoration initiatives, Africa's second-most ...
Ethiopia sits in the bottom 25 of Freedom House’s press freedom rankings, close to Russia and Saudi Arabia. Under a counter-terrorism law that human rights activists and lawyers say is used to stifle ...