Wonago district is one of the densely populated districts in Ghedeo Zone of the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Regional State in Ethiopia with 1137 people per sqmt. Farming specially coffee, false banana and other fruit trees is the main stay of the community. The community is practicing traditional agro forestry system long been utilized in the area. The population pressure depleted the hectares of land a family can have. Recently it was only 0.5hc/family. One can simply imagine how hard it is to ensure food security in a family of 8-12 with this very little land holding. The case of Genjo Bonja is one such example. "Genjo Bonja 80, lived in Wonago district, has raised his five children on the produce of the one hectare of land his family occupied. When two of his children married, he had to share his land with them, leaving less than half a hectare to himself and the rest of the family. That land is no longer enough to sustain the family. The problem of land shortage for the locals is exacerbated by children returning to their parents after school, and remaining dependent on their parents". (Wudineh Zenebe, FORTUNE Newspaper Nov.15 2009) He told this to journalists in the annual general assembly of the Consortium of Integrating Population Health and Environment (CIPHE). CIPHE promote the integration of population, health and environment in addressing the root causes of poverty in Ethiopia. A new approaches to the address the multi faceted problems of population pressure, health and environment in the country. CIPHE recognizes the interconnectedness between people and their environment and supports multi-sectoral collaboration and coordination across all levels of society.

The greener sightseeing scene is quite astonishing, as the community preserves the land using the traditional agro forestry system. The issue of reproductive health in spacing children and limiting the number of children has to be widely implemented in the area. It was a critical challenge to the community to preserve the land having experienced a population boom. Lem Ethiopia another NGO is helping the community by introducing improved varieties of seeds and fruits that have better yield within a short period of time. Increasing land productivity is a vital option to not destroy the trees. This is very essential in order to maintain the environment as it is. The yield per hectare has to be significantly enhanced in order to maintain the ecosystem. Coupled with this aggressive efforts need to be undertaken to heighten the awareness of the community about reproductive health for a sustainable usage of the conserved agro forestry. The landscape is steep. I have seen people settled in slope mountainous areas.

Preserving the environment goes hand in hand with having manageable size of population. It is a practical example to show the link reproductive health interventions have with environment and reduce the effects of climate change.