Ethiopia's government launched the £1.1bn tree planting project earlier this year to tackle deforestation and climate change. The United Nations says forest cover in Ethiopia fell from 35% of ...

If you see a forest in Ethiopia, you know there is very likely to be a church in the middle, says Alemayehu Wassie. Wassie, a forest ecologist, has spent the past decade on a mission: preserving ...

An ethnic group in Ethiopia safeguards its UNESCO forest with a traditional, community-driven approach to conservation. Cutting down trees risks social exclusion, a powerful deterrent in Gedeo ...

Some public offices have been shut down to allow civil servants to take part. The UN says Ethiopia's forest coverage declined from 35% of total land in the early 20th Century to a little above 4% ...

The property lies along the eastern edge of the Main Ethiopian Rift, on the steep escarpments of the ... populated by the Gedeo people whose traditional knowledge support local forest management.

Ministry of Agriculture expressed readiness to engage development partners and investors in various agricultural investment areas thereby scaling up the success stories registered so far.

Professor, Paleo-Anthropology & Palaeo-Environment Program, Climate Science Centre, African Centre for Disaster Risk Management at the College of Natural Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.