{"id":274116,"date":"2019-04-26T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T11:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMie2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZyYW5jZTI0LmNvbS9lbi8yMDE5MDQyNi1mb2N1cy1ldGhpb3BpYS1wZXJtYWN1bHR1cmUtc3VzdGFpbmFibGUtZGV2ZWxvcG1lbnQtdGlncmF5LXJ1cmFsLWFyZWFzLXZpbGxhZ2UtZmFybWVyc9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:41:17","slug":"france-24-permaculture-multiplied-harvests-in-a-tigray-highland-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274116","title":{"rendered":"France 24: permaculture multiplied harvests in a Tigray highland village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In April 2019, France 24 reported from a Tigray village roughly 800 kilometers from Addis where, since the late 1990s, food production had reportedly multiplied about tenfold and farmer incomes about twentyfold through permaculture-style soil and water work.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-429636\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Luna-Farm.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"France 24: permaculture multiplied harvests in a Tigray highland village\" \/>\n<p>Small-scale success does not cancel regional food insecurity. It does show that terracing, composting, and water harvesting can rewrite local odds when communities stay on the land.<\/p>\n<p>Later war in Tigray made such village stories ache harder. Development gains are fragile when the Ethiopian government and armed actors turn highland farms into front lines.<\/p>\n<p>As agriculture reference, the France 24 focus remains useful: name the method, name the place, and refuse to pretend donor language alone feeds people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20190426-focus-ethiopia-permaculture-sustainable-development-tigray-rural-areas-village-farmers\">France 24<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focus &#8211; Permaculture brings prosperity to Ethiopia&#8217;s rural areas&nbsp;&nbsp;FRANCE 24Over 10 million people in the Horn of Africa region are at risk of food insecurity. But on a small scale, some people are working to reverse the trend. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":429636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Luna-Farm.jpg?fit=1024%2C519&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19je","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601447,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274116\/revisions\/601447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}