Our mission
The Project aims to reverse land degradation and poverty through its community-led forest restoration program in Northern Ethiopia. It targets the dual crisis of ecosystem degradation and poverty in Ethiopia's largest secondary dry Afromontane forest—a crisis deepened after two years of civil war in Tigray. The project combines community engagement with strategies such as assisted natural regeneration, agroforestry, soil rejuvenation, and water harvesting. The overarching vision is to halt degradation, enhance biodiversity, boost local economies, and build climate resilience, thus addressing the interconnected challenges of ecological decline and socio-economic vulnerability. The objective is to restore about 40,000 hectares of Desa’a Forest, bringing water back to the region, reversing soil erosion, uplifting forest-dependent communities out of poverty, and reducing forest dependency for subsistence income.
Implementers
Classification
- Farmlands
- Forests
- Mountains
