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Investing in Nature Pays off for People and Biodiversity

If you take care of the land, it will take care of you, says Tsefaye Kidane, a 40-year-old coffee farmer from the Kafa Biosphere Reserve, a protected area in southwest Ethiopia that is also regarded as the birthplace of wild Arabica coffee.

date:  21/05/2020

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Kidane’s farm is more than a mile off the main road, accessible only by foot along a winding, narrow path that meanders through the hills and is just wide enough for a motorbike or bicycle to get goods to market. When he took over the farm from his father, Kidane said the soil quality was poor and crops erratic, their irregularity exacerbated by the ravages of climate change and decades of land degradation.

Full text available here: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/immersive-story/2020/05/21/investing-in-nature-pays-off-for-people-and-biodiversity