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Bare Gullies in Ethiopia's Rift Valley Stitched Shut by 800 Farmers With Grass and Bamboo

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🇪🇹 Ethiopia

In Ethiopia's Halaba Zone, where gullies have swallowed about 15,000 hectares of productive land, farmers are sewing the earth back together with check dams, native grasses, bamboo and fruit trees.

800farmersFarmers collectively restoring degraded, gullied land across eight kebeles in Halaba
12kilometersLength of degraded land being restored by those farmers (stated as about 12 kilometers)
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