{"id":279098,"date":"2019-06-17T09:55:40","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T13:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiECufaicg5w3fBjb4T9EH2SwqGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4OH9CjCg6_UCMJ-42gU?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:16:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:16:28","slug":"trocaires-sean-farrell-described-a-drought-resilience-water-project-near-adigrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279098","title":{"rendered":"Tr\u00f3caire\u2019s Se\u00e1n Farrell described a drought-resilience water project near Adigrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 June 2019 ReliefWeb carried Tr\u00f3caire\u2019s Se\u00e1n Farrell writing, on World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, about a water project near Adigrat in northern Ethiopia where a small reservoir and five kilometres of pipe watered green crops for hundreds of families.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-434588\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ethiopia-to-export-wheat-while-there-is-domestic-shortage-Fowg4A1aIAE9vyk.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tr\u00f3caire\u2019s Se\u00e1n Farrell described a drought-resilience water project near Adigrat\" \/>\n<p>Farrell said UKAID Match-backed work helped communities conserve soil, harvest fodder, build mountain terraces, and trap river water so farms could withstand more frequent drought, while arguing that those families had contributed little to climate change yet paid a high price.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as climate and humanitarian archive, the Tr\u00f3caire note dates a mid-2019 field view of drought resilience in Tigray\u2019s Adigrat area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/ethiopia\/combating-drought-climate-change-ethiopia\">ReliefWeb \/ Tr\u00f3caire<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Combating Drought &amp; Climate Change in Ethiopia &#8211; Ethiopia&nbsp;&nbsp;ReliefWebBy Se\u00e1n Farrell. On World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, Tr\u00f3caire&#8217;s Se\u00e1n Farrell reports about his visit to a life-changing water project in Ethiopia, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":434588,"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-279098","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\/02\/Ethiopia-to-export-wheat-while-there-is-domestic-shortage-Fowg4A1aIAE9vyk.jpg?fit=1080%2C809&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aBA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279098","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=279098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755241,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279098\/revisions\/755241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}