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.