Household level tree planting and its implication for environmental conservation in the Beressa Watershed of Ethiopia

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• 作者：Tesfa Worku ; S. K. Tripathi ; Deepak Khare
• 关键词：Fuelwood ; Dung ; Deforestation ; Soil erosion ; Land degradation ; Agro ; forestry ; Environmental conservation
• 刊名：Environmental Systems Research
• 出版年：2018
• 出版时间：January 2018
• 年：0
• 卷：6
• 期：1
• 全文大小：1425KB
• 刊物主题：Monitoring/Environmental Analysis;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：2193-2697
• 卷排序：6

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BackgroundElsewhere in other developing countries, and 85% of the Ethiopian population is living in rural part of the country and more than 90% of domestic energy source is dependent of traditional biofuel. Increase in population is causing more demand for human use and more pressure on natural resources. This adversely affect the increase of multi-purpose and indigenous tree plantation and ago-forestry practice and hence has a vicious circle with food security. However, following the start of community based watershed management practice, households are encouraged to plant trees on their private land, which contributed to the increase of forest coverage. Therefore, the objective of this study was to assess household level tree planting, domestic energy consumption, and explore implication for environmental conservation.