The sight in the Humbo region of the Ethiopian Highlands in April was striking: dozens of women and men using hand tools to dig terraces all the way down the steep mountain slope. Those terraces then became level ground for tree-planting to further hold back the floodwaters that used to torrent downwards after rains, carrying precious soils and carving out unfarmable gullies at the bottom.
We need interconnected approaches, owned by local communities who participate and lead in the sustainable management of their natural environments while producing bountiful crops and earning incomes in ways that sustain their lands now and for generations to come. This is not just wishful thinking.
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