🌍 Ethiopia: Low-cost, nature-based solution is allowing small communities to restore gullies to stop major agricultural soil loss.

🌱 "...the people living in these areas can protect their farmland from soil erosion, reduce crop losses, grow grass or feed for their animals and create opportunities to forage for indigenous edible and medicinal plants."

https://theconversation.com/ethiopian-communities-are-using-low-cost-methods-to-restore-eroded-land-283299

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Ethiopian communities are using low-cost methods to restore eroded land

Ethiopian communities are cheaply filling destructive gullies with soil, stones and branches and replanting them to stop erosion and restore farmland.

The Conversation