landscape restoration: insights from ethiopia
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Landscape Restoration: Insights from Ethiopia
Beating Famine Southern Africa Conference:
Sustainable Food Security through Land Regeneration in a Changing Climate
Niguse [email protected] or [email protected]
World Agroforestry Centre, Ethiopia
14 - 17 April 2015, Bingu International Conference Center, Lilongwe, Malawi
General Overview
A country with high variation in climate, vegetation and topography
1. Landscape Problems & their consequences Land degradation: Threatens sustainable livelihood
Drivers of landscape resources degradation …
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• Competit ion for communal resources, free grazing, shif t ing cultivation, demand for energy & construction
• Crop & livestock based farming system
Rehabil i tat ion & Restoration Efforts in Ethiopia as major public works
Years of experience of participatory watershed mgmt. & SWC activit ies have been implemented and practiced
As a result , many encouraging outcomes have been achieved SWC - Catchments Treatment,
Gully reclamation
Water Harvesting (f lood diversion, check dam, percolat ion ponds, wells , springs)
Farm land mgmt. practices
Area covered (ha) by watershed based SWC activities in three different phases of Tigray region
2. Landscape restoration efforts in Ethiopia
Major driving forces for years of efforts
-Food and water insecurity
-Shortage of biomass (energy, feed, etc. . )
-The changing climate
Millions of hands are being mobilized through community led efforts against NR degradation, (e.g. . in Tigray; landscape restoration)
Millions of hands are being mobilized through community led efforts against NR degradation, (e.g. . in Tigray; landscape restoration)
Gully reclamation through community mobilization
Gully reshaping & reclamation activit ies aim at: construction of loose rock, gabion supported rock check dams & biological conservation measures using fodder grass & trees – supported with reshaping of big and active gull ies
Before/after 2004/2006
Water harvest ing at farm level and range/grazing land management
Tree & shrub management across landscapes (natural regeneration and enrichment planting) Agroforestry Area exclosures Small holder plantat ion Dry forest & wood land
mgmt. Patches of high forest
areas
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3. Impacts and Lessons Learned Food and water security are improved Soil and water loss decreased while vegetation
cover & biodiversity increased Awareness raised on landscape restoration for its
multiple benefits and services Restoration is a key pillar of national policies –
based on success stories in Tigray
Irrigation in Abreha We Atsbeha<50 ha in 2004 to >300 ha in 2013
Participation of communities at al l levels of land management
NRs conservation & rehabil i tat ion based extension system Extension structure of the country Social & organizational community based insti tut ions &
groups Profound culture in social mobilization for public works
(free labour Exposure visi ts and experiences sharing Quick adoption of FMNR aiming socio-economic and
ecological benefits and services
Landscape Restoration Lead to Sustainable Development
EconomicSustainability
SocialSustainability
EcologicalSustainability
Let’s Join Hands to Build Capacity, Knowledge and
Transforming Lives and Landscapes
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