Environmental Protection &
Food Security
Major land use and environmental problems in the Region
include:
- Frequent
drought or water-logging;
- Shortage of water,
wood, food and feed;
- Soil nutrient loss and
declining land productivity;
- Overpopulation and
shrinking per capital landholding;
- Heavily denuded bare
land;
- Shortage of alternative
income generating activities;
- Vulnerability to
environmental shocks and stress;
- Human and animal
diseases; and
- Lack of adequate
capacity to address those needs.
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Examples of Gully Erosion and Severe Ecological Degradation in Ethiopia |
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Examples of Land Degradation – Arsi, Ethiopia |
AGROFOREP seeks to contribute towards:
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Capacity building in the methods of
environmental protection and sustainable management and use of natural
resources
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Increasing access to improved land
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Introducing
biological means of rehabilitating degraded
soils and gullies, using multipurpose tree, shrub and grass species
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Initiating small irrigation schemes
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Improving home gardens through horizontal and
vertical intensification
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Agroforestry Systems for intercropping of
food crops, vegetables, fruits, Enset, animals and nitrogen fixing species
(Multipurpose tree, shrub and grass species)
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Feeding animals through fodder production
for cut and carry
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Tree planting for the production of fuel
wood, construction materials, and mitigation of the effects of ecological
degradation, desertification, Climate Change and Global Warming.
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Examples of Rehabilitated Gullies through our
Project in Ethiopia
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