But the opening of a school in rural Laikipia in the central highlands will hopefully break that vicious cycle for 300 children, their teachers and the wider community.
Pioneering community-based walking holidays in the Ethiopian highlands, organised by Tesfa, an NGO based in Addis Ababa.
The film was shot in the Scottish highlands, which the charming French actor found stunning.
Victoria's faunal emblem, the Leadbeater's possum, has officially been listed as critically endangered, with the federal government's scientific advisers calling for an end to logging in the species's habitat in the Victorian central highlands.
The Victorian government has come under pressure to ban the clear felling of the central highlands, with just a fraction of older trees, which have hollows suitable for possum homes, still remaining.
Every smart farmer will use iCow," a small-scale farmer based in the cental highlands of Kenya told Forbes magazine.
From Gondar, take a thrilling jeep ride into the Wollo highlands for a trek, using sherpas to guide you around the dramatic basalt mountains.
"The committee considers the most effective way to prevent further decline and rebuild the population of Leadbeater's possum is to cease timber harvesting within montane ash forests of the central highlands," it recommended.
According to the scientific committee 42,685 hectares of mountain ash forest in the central highlands has been logged in the past 40 years, with just 1% of old growth forest now remaining.
Standing tall amid the latticework of burnt orange and blue that embroiders the north-western highlands of Jalisco, Mexico, Armando Acevez takes a sleeve in his hand and wipes it across his sweaty brow.
In Ethiopia's wet highlands farmers may try to diversify crops.
