Youth groups around Ethiopia’s Abijata-Shalla National Park are restoring a landscape stripped bare by water loss, overgrazing and deforestation. With training in sustainable land management, they’re rebuilding habitat and livelihoods—led by community needs.

Efforts are underway to revive the cultivation & use of enset, a drought-tolerant crop native to Ethiopia, through innovation & national development programs. But, challenges such as crop disease & limited investment & support remain key obstacles to its expansion as a sustainable food solution.

After decades of invasions, pollution and state neglect, the Akroá Gamella Indigenous people have reclaimed part of their ancestral land in Brazil’s Maranhão state, and shut down illegal landfills maintained by local governments, with an aim to restore the territory through agroecological practices.

My leatest for @mongabay.com After USAID cut, Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area aims for self-sufficiency

My leatest for @mongabay.com - USAID cut curbs hopes at Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area

Photos: Ethiopian farmers blend tradition, innovation to sustain centuries-old agriculture

Ethiopia’s bold EV ambitions hit bumps in rural areas After becoming the world’s first country to ban imports of fossil fuel vehicles last year, a patchy power grid and high EV purchase costs are slowing Ethiopia’s green transport revolution in the countryside