Inter Press Service: Eight years ago Kenbesh Mengesha earned an uncertain income collecting firewood from local government forests and selling them to her fellow slum-dwellers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She would earn on average about 50 cents a day, if she was lucky. But now she is part of a successful women's farming project that is a model for training other urban farmer groups all over Africa on how to adapt to climate change. According to the World Bank, Ethiopia is extremely vulnerable to drought and other...
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