The Role the Current Natural Resource Conservation Program Through Mass Mobilization to Prevent Land Degradation Problem in Ethiopia. The Case of Efratana Gidim Woreda, in North Shoa Zone, Amhara Region
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2015-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
In Ethiopia for the last 8 year starting from the eve of Ethiopian
millennium the govemment of Ethiopia has launched SWC and
Environmental rehabilitation works to prevent land and Environmental
degradation using massive movement of the people. Land degradation
in the fonn of soil erosion in Amhara region in general and in the study
woreda in particular has reached the point where it will became
increasingly difficult even to maintain the present level of production of
basic food which is already insufficient in many woredas of the region.
Based on this rationale, the primwy objectives of this research was to
assess the role of the CLl/Tent massive natural resource conservation
work towards preventing land degradation in the form of soil erosion by
identifying cause and consequence of the problem, type and extent of
the change, implication of the change and causes of the positive change
in the study area.
The study employed simple random and stratified random sampling
methods for data collection and analysis. household survey, focus
group discussion, key infonnant interviews and review of secondary
sources were used as major data collection methodologies. Field
observation to observe the contribution of the current massive natural
resource conservation work and to see the changes on the ground by
comparing the data and photos which are documented in the woreda
were also takes place. Descriptive statistical method (mean, percentage)
and qualitative analysis were used as methodological tools.
The findings of the study revealed that the current massive natural
resource conservation program intervention have greatly contributed to
the protection of the expanding land degradation problem in the study
woreda. Similarly, the communal and fann land conservation, gully
rehabilitation, practice of different type of conservation works on
selected areas, changing type and source of feed for animals, the rules
and regulation which is seat by the local community to protect
conserved areas from human and animal, the awareness creation
program which is given by DAs, woreda sector offices and model
fanners ( ginbar kedem ariso aderss) have played a vital role in curbing
land degradation and sustaining the livelihood of the poor which could
have not possible in the absence of these intervention. In addition to
these the extent of the current massive conservation work, the positive
change what they seen on their fann land and PAs, the benefit what
they gain from conserved areas also motivated the local community in
the study area to accept the program and to participate voluntarily for
45 days per y ear as a public work in the selected areas and all over the
year on their private fann land.
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Role of the Current Natural Resource