Ethiopia: Efforts for Better Grain Harvest
These farmers of an Ethiopian cooperative have not yet modern agricultural technology available. They bring the corn by hand. Nevertheless they strive for better grain harvests which is a major task in the current first year of the national revolu...
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Food for Work
This U. N. "Food for Work" project in the Highlands of Ethiopia is mobilizing villages in a soil terracing project. The need is urgent: the UN estimates that each year Ethiopia loses 1,000 million tonnes of precious topsoil. (UNEP/Charles Stewart)
United Nations Environment Programme
Socialist Ethiopia: Volunteers Help With Maize Harvest
An Addis Ababa book-keeper, Meaza Mussie came 275 kilometres to help with the maize harvest in a state farm near Awasa. "Like most of us I am not used to this kind of work. But we hold that revolutionary slogans alone are of no help. Something has...
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