East Africa News

The Support to the Horn of Africa Resilience (SHARE) project aims to conserve biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services in the Bale Eco-Region (BER) of Ethiopia and improve the well being of communities that depend on these functions and services.

In May 2014, the Global Water Initiative East Africa together with WLE and it's lead center, the International Water Management Institute, convened a regional workshop on Transformations in Water for Smallholder Farmers in East Africa – towards a ‘Water-Smart Agriculture’ Learning Hub.

Management programs of grazing lands in Ethiopia have improved both degraded agricultural lands and livestock grazing, but how can they be sustained?

One WLE research project is setting out to explore how water accounting could guide decisions on water reallocation in the Eastern Nile basin.

WLE launches a new sourcebook on water-smart agriculture in East Africa.

Land degradation is a widespread issue in Ethiopia. The Meja watershed in the Jeldu region is one such example, having experienced the confluence of extreme environmental degradation and marked changes in cultural and religious practices over the past decades.