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Nature can provide the foundation for inclusive growth, food security, poverty reduction, and human wellbeing. The World Bank Group supports countries to sustainably manage natural resources to create jobs, improve food security, decrease pollution, and increase resilience to climate change.

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Natural resources provide livelihoods for billions of people. When managed well, renewable natural resources, watersheds, productive landscapes, and seascapes provide the foundation for sustained inclusive growth, food security, poverty reduction, and human wellbeing.

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Ethiopia Resilient Landscapes and Livelihoods Project

The project aims to improve climate resilience, land productivity and carbon storage, and increase access to diversified livelihood activities in selected rural watersheds.

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