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Policies for Sustainable Land Management in the East African Highlands
Objectives
- To identify the key factors influencing land management in the Ethiopian highlands and their implications for agricultural productivity, sustainability and poverty;
- To identify and assess policy, institutional and technological strategies to promote more productive, sustainable, and poverty reducing land management;
- To strengthen the capacity of collaborators in the Ethiopian highlands to develop and implement such strategies, based upon policy research; and
- To increase awareness of the underlying causes of land degradation problems in the Ethiopian highlands and promising strategies for solving the problems.
The WUR contribution to the project will be the development of an integrated agro-ecological and socio-economic analytical framework for the appraisal of suitable incentives to enhance sustainable land use and farm household welfare in Northern Ethiopia (case study of Tigray).
Specific objectives for the WUR contributions to the project include the following areas:
A. Agro-ecological analyses (LEI, ALTERRA and PRI)
B. Bio-economic modelling (Department of Development Economics, Wageningen University)
Methodology
This project will build upon and complement research already being conducted in the Ethiopian highlands by IFPRI, ILRI, and MU in 1997, entitled “Policies for Sustainable Land Management in the East African Highlands”. The biophysical part (by ALTERRA, PRI and LEI) will use biophyscial modelling tools such as NUTMON and LISEM and the TCG methodology.
Partners
From Wageningen UR:
LEI
PRI
Alterra
Development Economics Group
other:
Mekelle University
IFPRI
ILRI
Duration
2001 - 2003
Research areas
Ethiopia
Donors
This project is funded by the Netherlands Development Assistance and co-sponored by the DLO Research Programme 'International Cooperation' (DLO-IC) of the Netherlands Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries.
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