Tsefaye Kidane, a 40-year-old coffee farmer from the Kafa Biosphere Reserve in southwest Ethiopia. Photo: © Kaia Rose, Connect4Climate – World Bank Group If you ...

BONGA, Ethiopia – Nestled in the dense rainforest of the Kafa Biosphere Reserve in southwest Ethiopia are thousands of genetic variants of coffee – an important seed bank of wild Arabica that faces ...

State Minister of Culture and Tourism Mulugeta Seid on his part said that out of the 651 biosphere reserves in 120 countries, Kafa, Yayo, Sheka and Tana are found in Ethiopia providing social and ...

Thought Ethiopia was all barren deserts? Think again. In June 2010, huge tracts of the remaining wild forests of Kafa were designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in honor of its intact biodiversity and ...

About 300 miles southwest of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in the shaded understory of Kafa Biosphere Reserve’s montane rainforests, one of the world’s most traded commodities still grows wild.

In 2010, the Kafa zone in Ethiopia was included in the UNESCO World Network of Biosphere Reserves. Located approximately 460 km southwest of the capital, Addis Ababa, the Kafa Biosphere Reserve is the ...

A total of 16 young participants from Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates were selected to join this excursion to UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in the two countries. After visiting the Kafa Biosphere ...

Ethiopia has managed to register four natural resources as UNESCO's Biosphere Reserves, under its Man and ... The natural resources registered are Yayu, Kafa, Sheka and Tana.

The nature protection organization NABU has documented some of them and is trying to provide them a home in UNESCO's Kafa Biosphere Reserve in south-western Ethiopia. Just under a dozen of the ...

One of the few remaining old forests of Ethiopia is the Kafa Biosphere Reserve, the birthplace of the wild Arabica coffee and home to numerous rare and endangered animal and plant species.