UN unveils 10-year plan to lift 500 million out of misery

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This article from the Independent, dated Tuesday 18th January, details how farmers are given training in basic agricultural methods transforming the productivity of over one hundred acres of land.

Aymiro Gedamu, a coffee farmer in the steep northern highlands of Ethiopia, used to dread the rain: every year it washed away his livelihood.

Like most farmers in the Lalibela region, Mr Gedamu attempts to make a meagre living cultivating a hectare of hillside, perched perilously above a ravine. His farmland lacked something very simple: stone walls. "In the downpours," he said, "there was huge flooding, taking away all the soil, and the water would pour away into gullies".


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