ADDIS ABABA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A comprehensive digital map charting soil fertility in Ethiopia is proving an important tool in tackling the country’s low farm productivity, a challenge ...

A combination of land restoration activities can boost crop yields -- in some cases as much as 170 percent -- and soil carbon but increased runoff due to climate change and land-use change make ...

In July Ethiopians planted 350 million trees in a single day. This was part of the country’s national green legacy initiative to counter environmental degradation and climate change. The initiative ...

Ethiopia is setting the pace in terms of ensuring that Africa begins greening the environment and contributing toward ...

Approximately 45% of Ethiopia’s coffee, the country’s main export, originates from natural forests. Credit: Noiz Stocker/Shutterstock. The board of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) is supporting a ...

Four football fields of land degrade into desert every second. That equates to an area almost as large as Ethiopia each year.

NAIROBI/DURBAN, April 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From South Africa, where unprecedented floods this month washed away farmland, to the excessive logging of Kenya's mountain forests, Africa is ...