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Natural Resource Management and Rural Development in Ethiopia

Adrian P. Wood
- pp 187-198
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The article was published on 1991-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 35 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Natural resource management.

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Determinants of adoption and continued use of stone terraces for soil and water conservation in an Ethiopian highland watershed

Aklilu Amsalu, +2 more
- 01 Mar 2007 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the determinants of farmers' adoption and continued use of introduced stone terraces in an Ethiopian highland watershed and found that adoption is influenced by farmers' age, farm size, perceptions on technology profitability, slope, livestock size and soil fertility.
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Deforestation and Land Degradation in the Ethiopian Highlands: A Strategy for Physical Recovery

Badege Bishaw
- 01 Jan 2001 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss agriculture and forestry practices in the Ethiopian highlands and try to identify the causes of defor- estation and land degradation there, and propose agroforestry and social forestry prac- tices, plantation forestry, and conservation of the remaining forests.
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Soil and water conservation intervention with conventional technologies in northwestern highlands of Ethiopia: Acceptance and adoption by farmers

Woldeamlak Bewket
- 01 Apr 2007 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined farmers' acceptance and adoption of soil and water conservation (SWC) technologies that were claimed by the implementing agency to have been executed in a farmer-participatory approach in a representative micro-watershed (the Digil watershed) in the north-western highlands of Ethiopia.
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Knowledge, Power and Politics: The Environmental Policy-Making Process in Ethiopia

James Keeley, +1 more
- 01 Mar 2000 - 
TL;DR: The authors examines the actor-networks and key policy spaces associated with the establishment of these discourses, taking natural resource management policies, and institutionalisation of the SG-2000 extension programme as case studies.
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Farmers' participation in soil and water conservation activities in the Chemoga Watershed, Blue Nile basin, Ethiopia

Woldeamlak Bewket, +1 more
- 01 May 2002 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the extent of farmers' participation in current SWC activities in the Chemoga watershed, East Gojjam Zone, Amhara Regional State was analyzed, and the most important reason discouraging them from participating freely was the perceived ineffectiveness of the structures under construction.