Watershed Management in Highlands of Ethiopia: A Review - Open Access Library Journal

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Open Access Library Journal

Volume 2, Issue 6 (June 2015)

ISSN Print: 2333-9705 ISSN Online: 2333-9721

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Watershed Management in Highlands of Ethiopia: A Review ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1101481 8,207 Downloads 15,569 Views Citations

Author(s)

Tesfa Worku^*, Sangharsh Kumar Tripathi

Affiliation(s)

Department of Water Resource Development and Management, India Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.

ABSTRACT

Watershed is not only a hydrological unit for hydrologist but also a socio-political-ecological entity for rural community. Ethiopian highlands hailing as the cradle of humanity and home to about 80% of the population helped shelter from foreign conquest and making a strong base of rural community. The area is threatened with erosion and loss of agricultural productivity. The soil and water conservation program initiated in 1970 achieved only limited success due to its failure in addressing to the problems of local people. The prominent reasons assigned were lack of community participation, ignoring indigenous knowledge, adopting top down approach and poor institutional collaboration. The present government taking lessons from the past, started community based integrated watershed management program removing all the shortcomings through the instrument of new policies for improved livelihood and living conditions of rural communities.

KEYWORDS

Watershed, Evaluation, Soil Erosion, Land Degradation, Soil and Water Conservation, Community Based Watershed Management

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Worku, T. and Tripathi, S. (2015) Watershed Management in Highlands of Ethiopia: A Review. Open Access Library Journal, 2, 1-11. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1101481.

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