Devil?s tie bedevils water: An Irob innovation

A mountainous area of northern Tigray, occupied two years ago by Eritrea and recently regained by Ethiopia, has been called a 'worthless piece of land' by war reporters, but it is worth a lot to the Irob who call it home. Here, the Irob laboured for years to add value to their land through their own initiative. One of these people is Yohannes Tesfay, a farmer who was so innovative in using stone to conserve land that his neighbours called him 'The Engineer'.