The Ethiopian Forest Churches are exactly what the Benedict Option should look like on a conceptual scale: it is not a fleeing from the world but a conserving of the good, true, and beautiful ...

If you see a forest in Ethiopia, you know there is very likely to be a church in the middle, says Alemayehu Wassie. Wassie, a forest ecologist, has spent the past decade on a mission: preserving ...

A forest fire that started over a week ago on Mount Galama, located between Bokoji and Shirka districts in the Arsi zone of the Oromia region, remains uncontrolled, with residents saying no ...

Notably, approximately 45% of Ethiopia's coffee, the country's main export, originates from natural forests. The investment plan seeks to tackle climate change and land degradation. CIF funding ...

This requires guidance, mediation, and facilitation. The attempt to conserve Ethiopian coffee forests illustrates that the government, NGOs, local communities as well as private companies have their ...

Ethiopia boasts 17 heritages inscribed on UNESCO's Tangible and Intangible World Heritage Lists. While some, like Lalibela, were inscribed as early as 1978, recent additions include the Gedeo Cultural ...

Professor, Paleo-Anthropology & Palaeo-Environment Program, Climate Science Centre, African Centre for Disaster Risk Management at the College of Natural Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.