Sustainable Land Management Technologies and Approaches in Ethiopia

Danano Dale Daniel (2010)

The document presents an overview of traditional and introduced  Technologies and Approaches applied for managing land resources in Ethiopia. It is an outcome of the documentation undertakings carried out by the Ethiopian Overview of Conservation Approaches and  Technologies (EthiOCAT) Network during the period 2001 – 2009. Land management specialists at various levels (national, regional, woreda),  including development agents have participated in the collection of information using the WOCAT questionnaires. About 52 Technologies and 27 Approaches have been documented during this period and the data is found in the EthiOCAT database. Among these, 35 Technologies and 8 approaches have been screened as best practices and presented  here to be used in the scaling up of land management interventions in the country.