Flooding events turned into farming opportunities: Innovation transforms livelihoods of pastoralists in Ethiopia

• Water Spreading Weirs: To capture and spread the torrential flood emerging in the neighboring highlands to low-lying rangelands and crop fields, five weirs were built based on land suitability studies. • Working together: Joint planning and execution between community leaders, landscape and c...

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Autores principales: Amede, Tilahun, Akker, Elisabeth van den, Berdel, Wolf, Ketter, Christina, Tilahun, Gebeyaw, Dejen, Asmare, Legesse, Gizachew, Abebe, Hunegnaw, Getnet, Mezgebu
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2019
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101389
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author Amede, Tilahun
Akker, Elisabeth van den
Berdel, Wolf
Ketter, Christina
Tilahun, Gebeyaw
Dejen, Asmare
Legesse, Gizachew
Abebe, Hunegnaw
Getnet, Mezgebu
author_browse Abebe, Hunegnaw
Akker, Elisabeth van den
Amede, Tilahun
Berdel, Wolf
Dejen, Asmare
Getnet, Mezgebu
Ketter, Christina
Legesse, Gizachew
Tilahun, Gebeyaw
author_facet Amede, Tilahun
Akker, Elisabeth van den
Berdel, Wolf
Ketter, Christina
Tilahun, Gebeyaw
Dejen, Asmare
Legesse, Gizachew
Abebe, Hunegnaw
Getnet, Mezgebu
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description • Water Spreading Weirs: To capture and spread the torrential flood emerging in the neighboring highlands to low-lying rangelands and crop fields, five weirs were built based on land suitability studies. • Working together: Joint planning and execution between community leaders, landscape and crop researchers and development agents using a combination of good agronomy, remote sensing and GIS-based maps yielded positive results. • Success draws attention: Seeing the results, pastoralists were willing to take up farming. It created local confidence, drew government attention and benefited pastoralists.
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spelling CGSpace1013892023-03-14T08:03:16Z Flooding events turned into farming opportunities: Innovation transforms livelihoods of pastoralists in Ethiopia Amede, Tilahun Akker, Elisabeth van den Berdel, Wolf Ketter, Christina Tilahun, Gebeyaw Dejen, Asmare Legesse, Gizachew Abebe, Hunegnaw Getnet, Mezgebu • Water Spreading Weirs: To capture and spread the torrential flood emerging in the neighboring highlands to low-lying rangelands and crop fields, five weirs were built based on land suitability studies. • Working together: Joint planning and execution between community leaders, landscape and crop researchers and development agents using a combination of good agronomy, remote sensing and GIS-based maps yielded positive results. • Success draws attention: Seeing the results, pastoralists were willing to take up farming. It created local confidence, drew government attention and benefited pastoralists. 2019-05 2019-05-27T09:02:28Z 2019-05-27T09:02:28Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101389 en Open Access application/pdf Tilahun Amede, Elisabeth Van den Akker, Wolf Berdel, Christina Ketter, Gebeyaw Tilahun, Asmare Dejen, Gizachew Legesse, Hunegnaw Abebe and Mezgebu Getnet. 2019. Flooding events turned into farming opportunities: Innovation transforms livelihoods of pastoralists in Ethiopia. Policy Brief 13, ICRISAT.
spellingShingle Amede, Tilahun
Akker, Elisabeth van den
Berdel, Wolf
Ketter, Christina
Tilahun, Gebeyaw
Dejen, Asmare
Legesse, Gizachew
Abebe, Hunegnaw
Getnet, Mezgebu
Flooding events turned into farming opportunities: Innovation transforms livelihoods of pastoralists in Ethiopia
title Flooding events turned into farming opportunities: Innovation transforms livelihoods of pastoralists in Ethiopia
title_full Flooding events turned into farming opportunities: Innovation transforms livelihoods of pastoralists in Ethiopia
title_fullStr Flooding events turned into farming opportunities: Innovation transforms livelihoods of pastoralists in Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Flooding events turned into farming opportunities: Innovation transforms livelihoods of pastoralists in Ethiopia
title_short Flooding events turned into farming opportunities: Innovation transforms livelihoods of pastoralists in Ethiopia
title_sort flooding events turned into farming opportunities innovation transforms livelihoods of pastoralists in ethiopia
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/101389
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