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Farmers on the frontline: Adjustment and improvement in Ethiopia’s basins

Plantations International News 2 ladies in Sidama Zone, Ethiopia. Alan NicolBy Alan Nicol(IWMI). Initially published on the World Financial institution's Governance for Development. Selilah gazes out over a landscape she has dwelled for 70 years. In the valley here, deep gullies mark the inclines where rains have brought away the soil. Dealing with three of her four children, she is battling making ends meet in this component of Sidama Area, Ethiopia, where, she claims, there utilized to be a forest much more than 40 years ago.Now most trees have been felled as well as water is scarce. Selilah spends 2 hrs [...]

Food safety and security can not wait and neither can definitive action on climate adjustment

Plantations International News By Fred Snijders, Senior Natural Resources Officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization. FAO reported in its magazine "State of Food Instability on the planet 2015" last June that the variety of starving individuals has gone down to 12.9 %. This is definitely great information, however at the same time, the downright numbers are still staggering; 795 million individuals are still starving today and also if environment action isn't achieved this number will enhance. Undernourishment is among the indications to evaluate food protection; a concept that has several dimensions. It includes food accessibility, manufacturing, access to food, utilization [...]