| ID: | 62742 |
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| Country: | Ethiopia |
| Title: | Ethiopia - Indigenous Tree Species Restoration, Climate Change Adaptation and Indigenous Livelihood Enhancement Project November 2018 |
| Description: |
Ethiopia, December 14 2018, Chencha, Ezo, Woro Kebele Gamo people. Chencha- Guggie Indigenous Tree Species Restoration, Local Climate Change Adaptation and Indigenous Livelihood Enhancement Project Year: 2011- 2013 Ajabe Anko, (with headscarfe) 50 years of age, at her home. She is running the female headed household, her husband has died. Her son is trying to take care about her trees, many children of the Gamo people are now receiving the traditional knowledge from their children. Quantity of their harverst have increased throughout the years, thanks to planting of different trees at their land. The knowledge and awareness of the value of the trees to the land and ultimately the crops are now well understood. Before the project the awareness of the value of the trees was there but it didn’t translate to practice up until the climate change trainings by ILCA. The community has agreed that the trees planted are to be allowed to reach maturity before they can cut and used for other purposes but the sole purpose is to allow them to stay in the land. In the case where the trees must be cut, then they must be replaced. This knowledge is especially being inculcated to their children and grandchildren Adamu Arba gave an example of an old mature Koso tree that his son requested to cut down to make a bed. Adamu told his son that he can only cut the tree if he planted 10 Koso trees first and ensured they had taken root (currently his son has planted 7). Several individuals that were not beneficiaries of the project are also adapting the practice of agroforestry and specifically utilizing the knowledge from the project and planting the same indigenous tree species. The trees were identified based on their ability to fertilize the soil, help in water retention/hold moisture, canopy for shading purposes and their importance to the environment (that would help in mitigating the climate change effects). As farmers they understand how important good soil is in the production of crops and in getting a good yield. There was also a strong component of intergenerational transfer of the knowledge of the value of the trees to their children were involved in watering the tree nurseries, transplanting the trees from the nurseries to the farms, methods of protecting the young trees from being eaten by livestock and the now older (6 years) trees from being climbed on by children, knowing the right seasons for pruning the trees for leaves to use in the land or for animal feed. These practices have enabled their children and grandchildren to value the trees. They all testified to have seen concrete results as a result of planting the Anka tree in their farms which is increase in their crop yield as they use the leaves directly in the fields and also by mixing them with animal manure to create compost. photo: IFAD/Petterik Wiggers |
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| Copyright: | ©IFAD/Petterik Wiggers |
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