Forest landscape restoration in Ethiopia: Progress and challenges

H Kassa, A Abiyu, N Hagazi, M Mokria… - Frontiers in Forests …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The government of Ethiopia has made an ambitious plan of building a carbon-neutral and
middle-income economy by 2030. In 2016, the country pledged to restore 15 million …

Challenges in the governance of community-managed forests in Ethiopia

M Yami, W Mekuria - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
A large proportion of the rural population in Ethiopia depends on community-managed
forests for food security and livelihoods. However, the government and development …

Forest landscape restoration: state of play

JA Stanturf, S Mansourian - Royal Society open science, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Tree planting has been widely touted as an inexpensive way to meet multiple international
environmental goals for mitigating climate change, reversing landscape degradation and …

Ecosystem service values changes in response to land-use/land-cover dynamics in dry afromontane forest in northern Ethiopia

N Solomon, AC Segnon, E Birhane - International Journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Despite their importance as sources of ecosystem services supporting the livelihoods of
millions of people, forest ecosystems have been changing into other land use systems over …

Farmers' willingness to accept payments for ecosystem services on agricultural land: The case of climate-smart agroforestry in Ethiopia

KK Haile, N Tirivayi, W Tesfaye - Ecosystem Services, 2019 - Elsevier
This study examines smallholder farmers' preferences for the uptake of contractual climate-
smart agroforestry, which yields economic and ecosystem benefits. A discrete choice …

Global drivers of change across tropical savannah ecosystems and insights into their management and conservation

BA Williams, JEM Watson, HL Beyer, HS Grantham… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
All tropical savannahs are experiencing extensive transformation and degradation, yet
conservation strategies do not adequately address threats to savannahs. Here, using a …

[HTML][HTML] Aboveground biomass models for trees and shrubs of exclosures in the drylands of Tigray, northern Ethiopia

MH Ubuy, T Eid, OM Bollandsås, E Birhane - Journal of Arid Environments, 2018 - Elsevier
Globally, drylands cover large areas, but few models for estimation of biomass are
developed for the relatively complicated tree and shrub structures found in this particular …

Topographic variables to determine the diversity of woody species in the exclosure of Northern Ethiopia

G Woldu, N Solomon, H Hishe, H Gebrewahid… - Heliyon, 2020 - cell.com
Exclosures are established with the objective of rehabilitating degraded lands and restoring
of woody vegetation. Various studies have been conducted to evaluate the success of …

Structural diversity consistently mediates species richness effects on aboveground carbon along altitudinal gradients in northern Ethiopian grazing exclosures

F Noulèkoun, E Birhane, S Mensah, H Kassa… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Grazing exclosures have been promoted as an effective and low-cost land management
strategy to recover vegetation and associated functions in degraded landscapes in the …

Future soil loss in highland Ethiopia under changing climate and land use

DM Moges, A Kmoch, HG Bhat, E Uuemaa - Regional Environmental …, 2020 - Springer
Soil erosion caused by climate and land-use changes is one of the biggest environmental
challenges in highland Ethiopia. The aim of this study was to assess the future soil erosion …