Watershed conservation-based market oriented commodity development: A move towards resilient farming?
Reversing watershed degradation and food insecurity has been one of the major development challenges in the semi-arid areas of northern Ethiopia where rainfed dependent mixed croplivestock farming is predominant (Berhanu et al., 2010; SERA, 2000). As an entry point, community based physical soil...
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| author | Woldewahid, G. Gebremedhin, Berhanu Hoekstra, Dirk Tegegne, Azage |
| author_browse | Gebremedhin, Berhanu Hoekstra, Dirk Tegegne, Azage Woldewahid, G. |
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| description | Reversing watershed degradation and food insecurity has been one of the major development
challenges in the semi-arid areas of northern Ethiopia where rainfed dependent mixed croplivestock
farming is predominant (Berhanu et al., 2010; SERA, 2000). As an entry point,
community based physical soil and water conservation has been launched at village levels
(Belete, 2009). The conservation has been initiated on cultivable lands and gradually extended to
watershed levels. The conservation and enclosure of watersheds have resulted in improved water
retention capacity and recovery of perennial bee forage plants in upstream hilly sides, and
revitalized surface and groundwater in the downstream of the watersheds (Belete, 2009). Despite
the intensive interventions in watershed conservation and recovery, the contribution to the
economy of smallholder farmers has been low. The watershed approach has been useful to
harmonize the use of soil, water and vegetation in a way that conserves these resources and
improve household income. The watershed management can be augmented with market oriented
commodity developments along the watershed resources gradient: upstream, valley bottoms and
downstream. In order to increase benefits to farmers, participatory, demand driven, skill and
knowledge based market oriented commodity development has been introduced, tested and
promoted in Atsbi-Womberta district, northern Ethiopia, since 2005/06. The objective of this
paper is to present the response to the integrated interventions along the watershed resources
gradient. |
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| spelling | CGSpace276172023-03-13T14:16:18Z Watershed conservation-based market oriented commodity development: A move towards resilient farming? Woldewahid, G. Gebremedhin, Berhanu Hoekstra, Dirk Tegegne, Azage marketing water Reversing watershed degradation and food insecurity has been one of the major development challenges in the semi-arid areas of northern Ethiopia where rainfed dependent mixed croplivestock farming is predominant (Berhanu et al., 2010; SERA, 2000). As an entry point, community based physical soil and water conservation has been launched at village levels (Belete, 2009). The conservation has been initiated on cultivable lands and gradually extended to watershed levels. The conservation and enclosure of watersheds have resulted in improved water retention capacity and recovery of perennial bee forage plants in upstream hilly sides, and revitalized surface and groundwater in the downstream of the watersheds (Belete, 2009). Despite the intensive interventions in watershed conservation and recovery, the contribution to the economy of smallholder farmers has been low. The watershed approach has been useful to harmonize the use of soil, water and vegetation in a way that conserves these resources and improve household income. The watershed management can be augmented with market oriented commodity developments along the watershed resources gradient: upstream, valley bottoms and downstream. In order to increase benefits to farmers, participatory, demand driven, skill and knowledge based market oriented commodity development has been introduced, tested and promoted in Atsbi-Womberta district, northern Ethiopia, since 2005/06. The objective of this paper is to present the response to the integrated interventions along the watershed resources gradient. 2012-12-19 2013-02-26T10:39:34Z 2013-02-26T10:39:34Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/27617 en Open Access application/pdf application/pdf Woldewahid, G., Gebremedhin, B., Hoekstra, D. and Tegegne, A. 2012. Watershed conservation-based market oriented commodity development: A move towards resilient farming? Paper presented at the Tropentag 2012, Göttingen, Germany, 19-21 September 2012. |
| spellingShingle | marketing water Woldewahid, G. Gebremedhin, Berhanu Hoekstra, Dirk Tegegne, Azage Watershed conservation-based market oriented commodity development: A move towards resilient farming? |
| title | Watershed conservation-based market oriented commodity development: A move towards resilient farming? |
| title_full | Watershed conservation-based market oriented commodity development: A move towards resilient farming? |
| title_fullStr | Watershed conservation-based market oriented commodity development: A move towards resilient farming? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Watershed conservation-based market oriented commodity development: A move towards resilient farming? |
| title_short | Watershed conservation-based market oriented commodity development: A move towards resilient farming? |
| title_sort | watershed conservation based market oriented commodity development a move towards resilient farming |
| topic | marketing water |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/27617 |
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