🇪🇹Ethiopia

Bamboo towers designed by architect Arturo Vittori harvest up to 100 liters of drinking water a day from fog, dew, and rain.

In a country that has lost most of its forest, small wooded islands around Orthodox churches are often the only native trees for miles, and the church's development commission now helps neighbouring farmers protect and expand them.

Addis Ababa closes 29 road corridors to cars one Sunday a month, and the crowd that fills them has grown every year since 2019.

An Addis Ababa startup that assembles its own electric motorbikes and swaps their batteries has put more than 2,000 of them on the road in three years, most for delivery firms.

Mela, whose name means 'solution' in Amharic, employs Ethiopian women to handcraft reusable pads and period underwear and sells them door to door through 179 women agents.

At a seed and food fair in Welmera, Oromia, eight-plus school clubs and a farmers' cooperative showed how a community seed bank keeps local varieties alive for the next generation.

Farmers on Ethiopia's Mount Damota regrew a forest from old tree stumps and turned the carbon credits into grain mills, warehouses and floodproofing for their villages.

Landless and smallholder farmers in Ethiopia's Tembien highlands are regenerating degraded mountain slopes with exclosures, hillside terraces and native trees, funded by carbon credits they control.

Ethiopia's oldest environmental NGO safeguards the country's wild birds and habitats through flyway conservation, tree-planting and grassroots education.