Action Against Desertification
Food Security
How the score is calculated
The score starts at 8. It adds points from recorded affected, deaths, displaced and casualty counts, plus terms found in the story title, event type or status. For each count, only its highest matching band is used.
- Affected people
- 1–999: +5 · 1,000–9,999: +12 · 10,000–99,999: +20 · 100,000–999,999: +28 · 1 million+: +35
- Deaths
- 1–9: +8 · 10–99: +14 · 100–999: +22 · 1,000+: +30
- Displaced people
- 1–9,999: +6 · 10,000–99,999: +12 · 100,000+: +18
- Casualties
- 100 or more: +8
- Story wording
- +10 for terms such as catastrophe, famine, war, conflict, major earthquake, mass casualty or critical. Otherwise, +5 for active, ongoing, emergency, outbreak, cyclone or hurricane.
Score bands: Watch 0–24 · Moderate 25–49 · High 50–74 · Critical 75–100. Scores are capped at 100. Missing or unparseable figures add no points.
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Historical record
Status: CLOSED · Imported 2026-10-07
Closed for this historical import at the site owner’s request; not a new assessment of current conditions.
In brief
- What happenedAn estimated 92 000 hectares of forests and woodlands, as well as 2 billion metric tons of fertile soil are lost every year in Ethiopia due to improper land use, poor land management practices, population pressure, overgrazing, deforestation and climate change.
- How many affectedAffected persons: 250,000
- What help is neededAction Against Desertification works on the restoration of over 1 700 hectares of arid and semi-arid land in Ethiopia’s Amhara, Tigray and Afar regions, focusing on the following activities: Integrated restoration of landscapes: watershed-based tree planting, soil and water conservation, rehabilitation of degraded woodlands, planting agroforestry and fodder species on farmlands and homesteads.
What changed
First retained snapshot
No earlier verified snapshot is present in the recovered dataset. This record remains available as the historical baseline.
Situation
An estimated 92 000 hectares of forests and woodlands, as well as 2 billion metric tons of fertile soil are lost every year in Ethiopia due to improper land use, poor land management practices, population pressure, overgrazing, deforestation and climate change. Action Against Desertification works on the restoration of over 1 700 hectares of arid and semi-arid land in Ethiopia’s Amhara, Tigray and Afar regions, focusing on the following activities: Integrated restoration of landscapes: watershed-based tree planting, soil and water conservation, rehabilitation of degraded woodlands, planting agroforestry and fodder species on farmlands and homesteads. Diversification of livelihoods: providing inputs and training to 900 households to re-green their degraded lands. Developing non-timber forest products including gum Arabic, lowland fruits and honey. Restoration seed and seedling production in nine village nurseries, three in each region. Improving the drylands curricula of three local universities. Supporting researchers and research projects in the fields of desertification and restoration. Action Against Desertification in Ethiopia Intervention area: six watersheds in Amhara, Tigray and Afar regions Population: 359 200 inhabitants (in 3 districts of intervention) Surface: 2 718 hectares Restoration potential : 3,9 million hectares (61% of land area of Amhara, Tigray and Afar regions)
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WorldsAid verification
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Verified figures
- Affected persons
- 250,000 retained at 2020-12-30
What we knew when
- WorldsAid record entered the retained historical dataset.
- Last verification represented by this immutable snapshot.
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Provenance
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