Ethiopia

3-1. Forest area

11. Institutionally consolidating the Participatory Forest Management (PFM) body

1. Approach's Outline and Features This approach combines work to establish a participatory forest management organization alongside an initiative to produce and market agriculture and coffee as a way of incentivizing forest management and managing forests sustainably in areas where natural forest is declining.As well as establishing a WaBuB (Forest Management Association) for Participatory Forest Management (PFM), the approach aims to build farmers' capacity to analyze production systems, ident...
2022.07.22
3-1. Forest area
3-1. Forest area

12. Challenge to sustainable forest management through participatory forest management

1. Approach’s Outline and Features This approach establishes a model for sustainable forest management through participatory forest management and consolidating measures to improve livelihoods and incentivize forest conservation, by the Forest Management Group called WaBuB. Having obtained legal status, this group is now guaranteed forest use rights through periodic forest monitoring under a forest management agreement. Elected Forest Management Group (WaBuB) Board members of Participatory Fores...
2022.07.22
3-1. Forest area
3-2. Out of forest area

16. Next-generation Sustainable Land Management Framework that integrates soil-erosion prevention work, land productivity and local communities’ livelihoods

1. Approach's Outline and Features This approach aims to develop a new Sustainable Land Management (SLM) framework that integrates and promotes efforts to prevent soil erosion, improve land productivity and boost the quality of life of local communities by linking research and development. The new SLM framework comprises (i) SLM technologies to prevent soil erosion and increase land productivity and (ii) Approaches to disseminate those SLM technologies; synthesizing both for end users in the for...
2022.07.22
3-2. Out of forest area
3-6. Other cross cutting matters

21. Creation of a system of natural resource management linked to markets and business and involving the participation of local residents

1. Approach’s Outline and Features Thisapproach involves introducing a “Forest Coffee Certification Program (FCCP)” as a mechanism for local farmers (cooperative or forest users’ group), both to help conserve forest and boost livelihoods through forest coffee production. Wild coffee marketing conserves the forests: This involves the unique approach of conserving areas where forest coffee proliferates while simultaneously promoting community livelihoods and establishing market linkages to premium...
2022.07.22
3-6. Other cross cutting matters
4-1. Extension measures

27. Dissemination of agricultural and forest conservation practices through Farmer Field Schools (FFS) in areas of soil erosion and low agricultural productivity

1. Approach's Outline and Features The Farmer Field School (FFS) approach is a suitable extension methodology for promoting agroforestry and sustainable natural resource management, as farmers frequently apply the skills they learn in the process, such as soil conservation, agroforestry practices, fruit tree planting, vegetable farming, perennial fodder production and woodlot development. The following issues underpin this approach: Tree intercropping: Although people used to protect trees on th...
2022.07.22
4-1. Extension measures