Africa RISING in the Ethiopian Highlands

Landscape Restoration and Water Harvesting (LRWH) and associated intensification of agriculture requires implementing appropriate technologies and approaches at scale. Cognizant of previous interventions, the Africa RISING project has been implementing innovative LRWH approaches to promote agricultural intensification in Ethiopia.

Introduction

Achievements

• Promoting effective LRWH at scale need to consider:• Whole landscape continuum.• Biophysical conditions of the landscapes: agro-

ecological, land use/cover, soil, geomorphological, geo-hydrological characteristics of the areas.

• Socio-economic and institutional conditions of specific landscapes/watersheds.

Promoting Landscape Restoration and Water Harvesting at scale; the case of Africa Rising project, Ethiopia

Kifle Woldearegay, Lulseged Tamene, Kindu Mekonnen, Zenebe Admassu, Tesfaye Yaekob

• Review of previous LRWH interventions (success and failures).• Analysis: Governance, Institutional Setup, and Stakeholders.• Baseline survey and participatory prioritization of interventions.• Capacity building at different levels.• Implementation with full involvement of all stakeholders.• Participatory evaluation of the implemented LRWH.• Documentation and Learning through research.

Approaches used

Fig. 1. LRWH interventions implemented in Debre Berhan AR climate smart landscape, Ethiopia.

Fig. 2. LRWH interventions implemented in Maychew AR climate smart landscape, Ethiopia.

Plate 1. LRWH interventions in Buso (A) and Zata (B) watersheds, Ethiopia.

Concluding remark

A landscape continuum model was used to implement effective LRWH (e.g. Fig. 1, 2). At later stage this approach is used to out-scale site-and context-specific interventions to other areas (e.g. Buso in Amhara, and Zata in Tigray region; Plate 1).

A B

Core partners

This poster is copyrighted by the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). It is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. November 2016

We thank farmers and local partners in Africa RISING sites for their support