DOI: 10.17026/dans-xsh-qfn6
title: Assessing the uptake of Sustainable Land Management Towards Food and Tenure Security, South Wollo, Ethiopia
title: 1. Mapping Land Use Land Cover Changes and Their Determinants: Evidence From South Wollo Ethiopia.

description: &lt;p&gt;Agricultural land is a scarce resource in Ethiopian highlands. Contrary to this fact, Its sustainability&lt;br&gt;is highly threatened by many intertwined problems. Amongst are Tenure insecurity, land&lt;br&gt;degradation, and food insecurity. These problems are the result of many interdependent&lt;br&gt;environmental, social, institutional and economic factors. Comprising 16 woredas, Beshilo sub basin is found in Amhara regional state of Ethiopia. It is one of the sub-basins of the Blue Nile basin&lt;br&gt;known for high prevalence of land degradation and food insecurity. In the sub-basin, a huge&lt;br&gt;volume of soil, water, and forest resource will be degraded annually, resulting in soil nutrient&lt;br&gt;depletion, poor agricultural productivity and thus food insecurity. Land tenure security is entirely&lt;br&gt;hurdled by poor certification program, and it is now at a preliminary stage. The problems have&lt;br&gt;exposed a large number of people to famine, migration, and destitution. Considering these deep-rooted problems, the Ethiopia government has intervened with the Sustainable Land&lt;br&gt;Management (SLM) project to reduce the negative consequences of the above-mentioned&lt;br&gt;problems. This research intends to study how this intervention has contributed rural households&lt;br&gt;to overcome these problems. The study has four specific objectives oriented towards addressing;&lt;br&gt;i) SWC technologies commonly implemented by farmers ii) contribution of successful land&lt;br&gt;certification to tenure security and agricultural productivity iii) land use and land cover changes&lt;br&gt;that come as a result of the intervention, and iv) food security status of people engaged in SLM&lt;br&gt;activities. It will make use of a case study approach in general and exploratory case study in&lt;br&gt;particular, where a combination of qualitative and quantitative data will be used from both&lt;br&gt;primary and secondary sources. Data will be interpreted and analysed using different statistical,&lt;br&gt;econometrics & ArcGIS software and relevant food security tools, models & measurements. The&lt;br&gt;result of the study provides policy-related information and technically feasible remedies that help&lt;br&gt;to prioritize in overcoming food security, land management, and tenure security problems. More&lt;br&gt;specifically, it will develop common language and currency that should be functional among&lt;br&gt;policymakers, donor organizations, academia and development practitioners in the area of&lt;br&gt;sustainable development.&lt;br&gt;Keywords: Land degradation, tenure insecurity, food insecurity, sustainable land management,&lt;br&gt;Land use land cover, Beshilo sub basin.&lt;/p&gt;
description: &lt;p&gt;2. Ethiopia: Understanding Sustainability and Constraints of Soil and Water Conservation Uptakes in the Erosion Prone Areas of the Northeastern Escarpments&lt;/p&gt;
description: Date: 2022-01-19
description: Date Submitted: 2022-03-08