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Development strategies
Omo River Dam
Pros
The dam is 243m tall, can hold back 14.7bn cubic metres of water, and has hydropower capacity of 1,870MW (megawatts)
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Supplies water to a 245,000 hectare sugar plantation, which is the country's largest ever agricultural scheme
Cons
Takes water from indigenous communities (200,000 affected)
Resulted in the shrinking of Kenya's Lake Turkana which receives 90% of its water from the Omo River
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Farm Africa
Cons
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Sometimes takes funds away from other projects with more immediate/direct benefits, for example building schools/hospitals
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Pros
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) is a project set up by Farm Africa that works with the Ethiopian government to protect 50,000 hectares of forest
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Farm Africa teaches 40,485 households how to manage agricultural resources
In Bale, Farm Africa is working with other NGOs to protect the Bale Eco-region