Regreening Ethiopia's Highlands: A New Hope for Africa 

Ethiopians are hard working people and it is great to see them pull themselves out of generations of agriculture disasters. Now they are making a positive contribution to the land to receive life giving water. Aloha from Hawaiʻi.

glory To hardworking Ethiopian people who are working hand in hand to change thier way of life and make the future of next generation better

Wonderful! As a geologist, I can tell you, that the loess in China is MUCH easier to work with hand tools than the rocky slopes in Ethiopia. I admire both peoples for doing something instead of talking,

This is the way to fight dessertification! And should be an example for other areas with the same problems. Restoring the ecosystem and environement leds to more food production and less poverty!

Love Etiopia from Turkey..! Hi guys 👋

I love to see the Ethiopians prosper for what they are doing to their country. GOOD JOB AND GOD BLESS.

It's nice to hear a "Good news" story from Africa

I hope these efforts are still going strong. It's always heartening to see people digging in (no pun intended) to fix their problems locally. My admiration to all the citizens of Ethiopia who put their effort into making their home a better place.

Instead of pointing fingers of blame at global warming these people have made a change by changing land management. Even with global warming and global climate change they are succeeding.

In short: Farmer education programs did solve the crisis. Education creates civilizations !

Wonderful to watch. I hope other areas of the world improved their environment also.

Thanks to Ethiopia for setting an example.

keep it up for the good work!! blessing from mexico

Thank you for sharing. I would like to see the same to happen in the Philippines. Happy people in Ethiopia! Congratulations.

I must appreciate to those guys who were played in transforming barren land into green ones..God bless all..

LOVE IT! Shared in Portugal!

Thrill to my heart, that Ethiopia.has become a model for others. Just amazing what is being done there. You deserve to be proud!

How marvellous!!...May the PRIME CREATOR BLESS ALL PEOPLE who aim to improve this Earth...

when communities work together. great things can happen.

Salute to Ethiopia's success... 🙏🙏🙏. 🇪🇹 🇪🇹 🇪🇹. 🇪🇹 🇪🇹 🇪🇹. 🇪🇹 🇪🇹 🇪🇹 . ... respect from Thailand... 👍👍👍

Alhamdulillah Praise God ! May God Continue to Bless Ethiopia....Ameen !

110% the best thing I've seen for quite some time! May the children of Ethiopia live long lives

salute to the Ethiopians. You guys are the models of conservation. A small step will ripple throughout every corner of the Earth. If everyone sees your initiative and perseverance, sooner the Earth's future will be greener again...

this is a story to be told

It is extremely important not only for locals, but also for the nature

What a brilliant work. This gives hope to the world. Well done Ethiopia and our salute from India

All those people working together with hand tools is a beautiful thing! Really great footage of the farmers facing today's most important issues head on!

Well done Ethiopia. I always knew you could do it.

Keep it up! Blood, sweat and tears never lie! Taking care of our home is the right thing to do! All the best! Love from India!

oh my gosh!! this is so freaking awesome to see!

My Africa! Good work brothers

Respected sir. I thank all your team for planning well. Sir, I have few suggestions, since Ethiopia gets very heavy rain fall and sometimes plantation gets washed away. My suggestions is you look for tree based plantation. You take tur dal also called as arhar ka dal in India. Very less care is needed. Our PM have done lots of research on this plant. This will slove protien problem of country. From one plant you get lots of production. Second tree is apple tree. Yes we have unique quality apple tree giving apple in hot summer . For all the ponds please look for plants called as a shinghdha. This grow only inside pond and seeds can be dried and used when ever needed. You do the platation of anjir, you can dry and sell as dry fruits. Please visit Mauritius. The Ethiopia atmosphere is same like Mauritius, You bring phiryaphe ....bread fruits this one tree can feed all village. We need to boil the fruit . You also bring carosole, this fruit is larger in size and have sweet as well as shower variety. You visit the place called as vascos, they vegetables in running rivers called as creso. They eat as salad. They turn and block the river water for plantation. At various places you adopt different trees. In Mauritius people eat chu.chu and pumpkin leaves this plants doesn't need to much care. Please check how they eat . My English is not good. Namh shivay. Respected sir. I am giving you one recipe for lemon pickle, first you remove the skin on lemon by grading on stone block, than wash and dry for one day thanyou need to add pure lemon juice to lemon add salt. Visit some site of lemon pickle without spices in India. In India we called as nimbu ka achar. Keep in sun for fifteen days. This pickle remain for one year or more year. Please make Rodrick Island in Mauritius. Many people sell lemon pickle to tourists. Africans are expert in making lemon pickle . Lemon also can create good sources of income. People can eat lemon pickle with steam pumpkin leaves. In Korea people eat steamed pumpkin leaves. You can eat with nomed bread. Please visit India Maharashtra and look for mayalu ka bhaji . We have green as well as red colour leaves. We can steam it and eat with lemon pickle or cook with arahar dal , this plants is very resilient, don't need to look after too much. Another vegetables is same, we also called as Papdi in marathi. When this same is young you can steam and eat with lemon pickle, plants when dry give very nice seeds , people can boil and eat. In the mountains pepper, zinger and turmeric grows very well. You are near Europe you can export it. The bread fruits friyape have very good demand in Europe. Mauritius export it to Europe. Very costly. In your country people like Banana, I have visited Fiji Island they've one variety banana is around triple size. I have not tested it. Please look for this Banana plant. Fiji Island also have one sower shrub, which they add in vegetables. I have watched few vedio of oil seeds plants in the mountains areas of China and Cambodia . I am not sure but please try to do platation in top of mountain. This is not palm tree but another variety. Each family must produce something to export. Namh shivay.

Love it! Greetings from Austria :-)

Wow! Inspirational..educational....grew up in Ethiopia...wish this would spread to other African countries! A world changing movement.

So beautiful to see these videos.love from SouthAfrica. Om Namasivaya.

You’ve got to admire the people for helping the earth to recuperate and the people trying to green our deserts let this be a start to help the earth to recover because we’ve only got one planet and no where else to go so let’s all help👍👍❤️.

Inspiring and uplifting.

So uplifting to see a people working their way up from the depths of famine and degradation. Heartiest congratulations to Ethiopia, long may you continue to prosper!

God bless you're Government .people of the village for getting you're country out of poverty ....so proud of you all

Touching and impressive achievement, itself a sequel of the World Bank success story in Chinese loess plateau.

Great to hear that, next step reducing cutting down wood with free solar panels and small scale wind turbines

Without the participation of thousands upon thousands of locals in every area, there would be no success, regardless of the methods used. When numbers of people turn out for the benefit of all to accomplish tasks of this magnitude, then we see real changes. In the modern world, we see big problems that equal big costs to pay someone, and projects are shelved or kicked down the road due to lack of funds or unpopular projects. I would like to see a world where, if something really big needs doing, sheer numbers of people trained to the project offer their time and effort to get it done. Planting forests, planting desert, cleaning up areas of horrific pollution, restoring/cleaning lakes and ponds, planting crops, etc. We are so used to taking without giving back. That has never worked, and we are suffering the consequences. Good video.

This is great, although in the recovered areas they should add rotational grazing. Instead of harvesting and transporting the grass, bring the cows to one area and let them graze it down, then move them to a new area. They fertilize and work the soil as they go, then the grasses are allowed to recover with the addition of fertilizer (manure and urine). How long each area is grazed and how often it can be re-grazed depends on the region. It varies from one day a year to a few days every month. You eliminate labor of harvesting and transporting, and the cows are healthier because the diseases and parasites in their manure die out before they return to that area.

Beautiful land of Ethiopia. Godbless you all. Keep moving up.

Finally something positive in the world 🥰

This is truly amazing for people and earth

Love and congratulations from Kerala, India. We love you Ethiopians. Ethiopia is the ancestral home of all of humanity. We are really happy to see your progress. Wish you a great prosperity, happiness and peace!

Greetings from Bulgaria! God bless and I am very proud of you

nurture the soil and it will take care of u ,

That was well worth watching! TY for a whole lotta knowledge. Loved it. 👍👍👍

Such a great video! Thank you for sharing!!

Leadership vision and effort. Amazing.

Incredible change in 35 years. So very well done.

Wow just amazing much love from Australia

Make Africa great 🌎 very grateful make Africa green 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🇺🇬👌👌😳

As soon as the grasslands recover (2-3 years) the ruminants need to be put back on it. Carefully managed rotational grazing adds nutrients to the soil -it doesn't deplete them.

Super like for this extra ordinary program and the efforts of people. Positive information indeed.

Congratulations to the people of Ethiopia for transforming the land from desertification to a sustainable increase of life. Well done!

I love most of the actions taken here, but while cutting the grass manually might be better than uncontrolled overgrazing, it might be worth looking into holistic grazing management as developped by the ecologist Allan Savory, which would improve the health of the grazing areas much more. Those methods have been used for example in Australia with great effect.

Good to see Ethiopia find right ways to solving problems, respect hard-work Ethiopian. Bless Ethiopia, love from Chinese.

8:48 "Land divided into four sections", reminds me of a RU-vid video that I watched, with Native Hawaiians dividing the land in a similar way; different than here since they lived close to an ocean beach. Top, steep, with rain clouds and fog, is sacred, untouched. 2nd section below it, slightly less steep, is kept as forest minimal harvested for wood and seeds but not enough to wear away the slope.3rd is planted tree orchards, bottom is irrigated with traditional root crops, with understanding that water leaving a field must be as clean as when it entered. 4th is the village, using the bay as a giant fish pond with rock wall with gap, and nutrients recharged every high and low tide. In short, even across continents and people who've never met, converge on a similar ecological wisdom.

It's so impressive to see those huge community gatherings and everyone working together. So awesome! It's great to know the country is thriving:)

Africa should have conversations around conservation.Its time to act and counter climate change.

😊just brilliant. All the answers to our troubles are here already, there just need people to will them into being.

Beautiful dokument super 👍👍👍❤️🌞🌞🌞👍

Congratulations to the effect of that much hard work!

Wow. So beautiful.

That is fantastic! Excellent work.

Pure music! Bravo!!

Wonderful! This is so heart warming ❤️

This kind of news we need in Africa, good job. Away from division only serve the few.

Thank you for this inspiring video

Amazing work - current and future generations should give all involved praise and gratitude - #SowTheSeeds

An excellent video, very informative. I thoroughly enjoyed this. I look forward to another video like this in 10 years time to see how matters have improved further.

Great video! Thanks

Congratulations to all the officials and citizens of Ethiopia who achieved this wonderful progess in water and land management practices

Great effort💐💐🙏

Wonderful!

This made me really happy. I hope this becomes the norm for farming practices globally.

this is so beautiful!!! This nurtures everyone, and the EARTH!🌻🌎🕊

The hard work of Ethopians will pay off. Now it's a bit greenery that will increase in coming years. Grow more 🌲 🌲.

May you be so blessed. Wise people

Fantastic. So wonderful for the people and the environment

I am from the Caribbean Trinidad and Tobago.we are a twin inland nation. it brings me great joy to see the development that is taking place in Ethiopia i am so happy for the people. I pray that there will always be among people, and that the Government of Ethiopia will do their best to help the people.. May God bless you Ethiopia.

A lot of hard work and great results. Only a beginning for the world, but a great and very practical model.

I love listening to these words of life

hard working combo with knowledge is the key

I absolutely love hearing stories like this! Great job Ethiopia 🇪🇹! ❤️🌍

This is so good!

Fantasic work !

What a wonderful inspiring video...there is hope for our world. I hope that The developing world will lead the 'first world' out of the terrible mess they have made. We need to do this work in Australia as too many people misplace' value' on money and consumerism....while our land suffers.

well done!!

Excellent !!!!

Helping 30 million people, 3/4the population of California! Both lands with a history of drought, and both learning lessons that can be taught, so the future is sustainably prospering.

Inspiring.

Wonderful.

Good job!

Just keep the good work ,this is the only path leeding to prosperity,with God blessing to you all

Africa is such a beautiful place. I want to go back some day and be where I belong.

How wonderful