Engaging stakeholders to implement community‐based rangeland rehabilitation plans in southern and northeastern Ethiopia
The semi‐arid Borana Plateau in the south and the more arid Afar region to the northeast are especially important rangelands for Ethiopia.Both have become unsustainable, however, because of numerous socioeconomic and ecological factors.Resource degradation often occurs as woody encroachment and loss of understory forage production.In many locations in Ethiopia rural people have become disempowered from making their own decisions regarding common property management.Blanket bans on traditional use of fire and other practices have occurred.Rangeland rehabilitation requires community‐based approaches along with varied technical interventions.Here we report on recent progress achieved — and new challenges created — in participatory processes for two objectives : (1) Reinstating prescribed fire for range management in the very remote Borana region, and (2) controlling the spread of the invasive alien Prosop is j uli f ora in the Afar region, which has remote and urbanized areas.
Borana Afar pastoralism participatory methods Prosopis juli f lora prescribed fire bush encroachment
G.Gebru D.Amosha S.Desta L.Gizachew A.Kebede D.L.Coppock
GL-CRS P PA R IMA,c/o IL RI,P.O.Box 5689,Addis Ababa,Ethiopia GL-CRS P PA R IMA,c/o IL R I,P.O.Box 30709,Nairobi,Kenya OA R I,P.O.Box 81265,Addis Ababa,Ethiopia Ethiop ian Wildlife Conservation Department,P.O.Box 81152,Addis Ababa GL-CRS P PA R IMA,Utah State Univ.,Logan,UT.
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）