Excited to share my latest feature in the July/August edition of Selamta, Ethiopian Airlines' inflight magazine. It celebrates Ethiopia's wildlife and protected areas while marking EWCA's 60th anniversary. Flying Ethiopian? Grab a copy and enjoy! 🦁🌿✈️

Livestock is central to food security across Sub-Saharan Africa. But feed shortages, climate stress and low productivity remain major obstacles. Our latest #podcast explores what climate-smart feed could change. #SciComm Listen to Africa Science Focus: www.scidev.net/global/podca...

Can climate-smart feed cut livestock methane?

Researchers say better livestock feed could reduce methane emissions and improve productivity.

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My latest for Mongabay!

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A new @nature.com study shows Ethiopia’s protected areas slashed deforestation between 2000 and 2020, but often at a cost. Households near these sites reported lower food security, proving that boosting conservation budgets alone cannot guarantee local wellbeing. @solomonyimer.bsky.social reports.

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.

Ethiopian youth groups restore Rift valley lake & livelihoods

Abijata-Shalla National Park, ETHIOPIA — Under the scorching midday sun in the upper catchment of Ethiopia’s Abijata-Shalla National Park, a local youth group toils along the edges of a deep gully…

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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.

Ethiopian initiatives try to mainstream traditional and resilient enset crop in diets

ARBA MINCH, Ethiopia — On a late May morning, as the chill of dawn gives way to sunlight warming the hills of Hareba village in southern Ethiopia, 56-year-old Almaz Achamo tends to her staple crop: a…

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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.

Brazil’s Indigenous Akroá Gamella reclaim and restore their land, one patch at a time

For more than 12 years, the government of Viana municipality in Brazil’s Maranhão state dumped used needles and syringes into three springs in Tabarelzinho village, inside the Taquaritiua Indigenous…

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

After USAID cut, Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area aims for self-sufficiency

ADDIS ABABA — Local leaders at Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area are working to become financially self-sufficient and continue protecting land and wildlife independently, following the a...

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

USAID cut curbs hopes at Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area

ADDIS ABABA — Alawara Kolbala, 39, from the Mursi tribe, said he remembers the sense of pride and hope his community felt when they officially gained legal right to manage their land in the Tama Commu...

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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

In Ethiopia, EV ambitions are hitting bumps in rural areas

Ethiopia, the first country to ban fossil fuel vehicles imports, sees its green transport slow due to a patchy power grid and high EV costs

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