This activity consists of:

• undertaking soil and water conservation activities ‘in order to prevent soil erosion and gully formation on agricultural and grazing land’; this to be done through the mobilization of people and productive safety-net programs;
• planting wind breaks around farms to prevent soil erosion;
• conducting activities to improve soil fertility and protection from gully formation, increasing production and productivity, and improving the ‘production of grazing grass’ (sic);
• establishing procedures for mobilizing people in water and soil conservation works;
• transferring best practices in natural resource development and conservation to pastoral areas from other parts of Ethiopia and implementing them ‘at least in areas where people have voluntarily settled’;
• undertaking ‘natural resource development and conservation practices based on the life style and livelihood of the people and ecology in pastoral areas’; this to be done through the mobilization of people.

1.4 Conduct pre-planned voluntary Commune programs to enable people in pastoral areas [to] benefit from settled life (p.48) »