Throw it upwards in Kenya
Terrace farming on slopes helps conserve water. Along with other measures such as micro-dams, stone bunds and percolation pits, this can reduce surface runoff and increase soil moisture. One such system called Fanya juu terrace have expanded in several parts of East Africa, particularly in the Machachakos District in Kenya where 85% of the land is now terraced.
Arresting land erosion in Ethiopia
There has been a remarkable landscape transformation in Tigray. Soil and water conservation activities have covered half of the agricultural land building. The activities have caused crop production to increase by 50%-100% and a large range of innovations to take root. This soil and water conservation programme is very much a story of scale begets scale and success breeding success
