The Drylands development programme is progressing in transitioning rural households from subsistence farming to sustainable rural economic development through integrated watershed management and livelihood development activities.

In the district of Kilte Awulaelo, northern Ethiopia, the Relief Society of Tigray (REST) and the local community of Tsalho are ensuring that water, now available thanks to restoration activities in the upper catchment, will contribute to tangible...

In northern Ethiopia, World Vision, other NGOs and the local government have mounted a massive effort over the last four decades to restore vegetation and bring the land back to a productive state. While much progress has been made, there have bee...

For Gebreselassie Gebrehiwet and his family, sheep-raising has now become a profitable business. Options for landless households remain extremely limited, and for Gebre and family, they struggled to make ends meet. Through training provided by RE...

The joint quality monitoring team visiting a target household's farm who benefited from irrigation technology in Boset,

Farmers in Tsaeda-Naele sub-district (Agona sub-watershed) of Kilte-Awlaelo district often face low production and low quality of forage for their herds due to natural and anthropogenic factors that induce climate change impacts on the natural res...

A team of staffs from DryDev Ethiopia participated in an ICRAF hosted East Africa Regional Learning , Sharing and Reflection workshop held in Amboseli, 5-9 December, 2016. The event was organized with the following major objectives; a) Acknowledg...

Teklehaymanot Tadele, aged 50, is landless and a resident of Kilte-Awlaelo district in Metseko sub-watershed, one of DryDev intervention site. Due to his inability to meet his basic needs, he was enrolled to productive safety net (PSNP), a progra...

In dryland areas where communities often live within degraded landscapes, the DryDev programme is demonstrating that well-organised community groups are essential to addressing rural poverty. Natural capital is often thought of as those resources ...