Prospects of Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Livelihood Development in Wondo Genet Area, Southern Ethiopia

Ango, Tola Gemechu (2005) Prospects of Sustainable Natural Resource Management and Livelihood Development in Wondo Genet Area, Southern Ethiopia. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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Abstract

The lives of most rural people in developing countries are strongly tied up to renewable natural resources like forest. These resources have been exposed to many factors that degrade them which are classed as proximate and underlying causes (Barraclough, et al, 1997). Moreover, these people have not accumulated wealth from the utilization of these resources that could stimulate and sustain their economic development when the resources deplete. Thus pressures on the remaining resources have continued. In Ethiopia, natural resource degradation has become the most serious environmental problem. For instance, currently only 2.4% of the total land of the country is under forest cover though it was estimated to have been about 34% in the past (Shibru and Kifle, 1999; Daniel, 1988). In a year, between 150,000 – 200,000 ha, i.e. about 6% of the remaining forest of the country, is cleared (MNR, 1993). The fast growing population that has led to increasing need for farmland, wood for construction and fuel is taken as the major cause of deforestation in the country. In line with this, it was estimated that within a year about 80,000 ha of natural high forests is converted to farmland for subsistence agriculture; about 50,000ha of acacia woodlands are cleared for charcoal production and for state farm expansion, and about 30,000 ha of woodland, thickets and bush are cut for fuel wood in the country (UNDP/ World Bank, 1988). Moreover, political unrest, forest fire, insecure land tenure system, inappropriate conservation approaches, and lack of awareness are considered as the contributing factors to deforestation.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions:	Africana
Depositing User:	Tim Khabala
Date Deposited:	25 Jun 2018 11:43
Last Modified:	25 Jun 2018 11:43
URI:	http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/4512

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