Due to war conditions, the local farmers had to largely rely on their own crop production, mainly by subsistence farming, in Tigray, North Ethiopia. We assessed the crop stands in 2021 and evaluated the level of resilience of the indigenous farming system. Quantitative data were collected from 161 farm parcels in various ecoregions of this tropical mountain region, in order to detect the share of sown land, crop types, and their status. This participatory monitoring was accompanied by semi-structured interviews. Farmers cultivated their farms late, left it uncultivated or marginally sowed oil crops as improved fallow (28%), due to lack of farming tools, oxen, fertilizer, seeds, or manpower. As compared to peace years, only few lands were sown with sorghum as there was active warfare in the sorghum planting period. The relatively good stands of wheat and barley (47%) are in line with the farmers’ priority given to cereals. Teff got a large land share because it could be sown up to the middle of the main rainy season and because farmers had consumed the seeds of their major cereal crops (wheat and barley) when hiding for warfare. Seeds left from consumption were only sown by late June, when troops had retreated, and the communities could revive. With almost no external support, the local farming system has proven to be remarkably resilient, relying on indigenous knowledge and local practices, block rotation, manure, improved fallow, changes in relative importance of crops, seed exchange, and support for one another. This is the first analysis of the socio-agronomic roots of the 2021–2022 Tigray hunger crisis, with a cereal harvest that could not at all sustain the local population as the planting season had been largely missed. The ability of the indigenous farming system to partially rebounce in times of autarky is another novel finding.

由于战争条件，埃塞俄比亚北部提格雷的当地农民不得不主要依靠自己的作物生产，主要是自给农业。我们评估了 2021 年的作物收成，并评估了本土农业系统的恢复力水平。从这个热带山区不同生态区的 161 个农场地块收集了定量数据，以检测播种土地的份额、作物类型及其状况。这种参与式监测伴随着半结构化访谈。由于缺乏农具、牛、肥料、种子或人力，农民耕种时间较晚，未开垦或边际播种油料作物作为改良休耕地 (28%)。与和平年代相比，播种高粱的土地很少，因为高粱种植期间战火纷飞。小麦和大麦（47%）的收成相对较好，这符合农民对谷物的优先考虑。画眉草获得了很大的土地份额，因为它可以播种到主要雨季的中期，而且因为农民在躲藏起来参战时已经吃掉了主要谷类作物（小麦和大麦）的种子。消费留下的种子只在 6 月下旬播种，那时军队已经撤退，社区才能恢复生机。在几乎没有外部支持的情况下，当地农业系统已被证明非常有弹性，依靠本土知识和当地实践、块轮作、施肥、改良休耕、作物相对重要性的变化、种子交换和相互支持。这是对 2021-2022 年提格雷饥饿危机的社会农艺根源的首次分析，由于基本上错过了播种季节，谷物收成根本无法维持当地人口的生计。本土农业系统在自给自足时期部分反弹的能力是另一个新发现。