From the field

Stories

The people and places behind the numbers, told, where we can, in their own words.

Tigray, Ethiopia

The spring that came back

After seven years of replanting, the spring above Adi Shumdihun runs in March again, and a village stopped walking three hours for water.

Nakuru, Kenya

What two hundred women grew

A nursery cooperative that began as a drought response now supplies seedlings to four districts, and pays for school fees in three.

Sulawesi, Indonesia

Bringing back the river

Mangrove and upland planting either side of a watershed, and the fish, and the fishers, returning to a coast written off a decade ago.

Oaxaca, Mexico

The hillside that earns

An agroforestry plot in its fifth year: coffee under native shade, soil that holds, and a family that no longer has to leave to make a living.