Organic resource use in rural households in Ethiopia 2016-2017

Data on household use of organic resources including dung, wood and crop residues and their time use from Halaba district, Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region in Ethiopia.
To capture seasonality households were, where possible, interviewed twice. A Baseline Data: collected in October 2016. Second Round Data: collected March/April 2017. In addition to organic resource and time use questions, the baseline survey has information on assets and land use, and the second has limited information on marketing.<p>The shortage of organic resources in rural Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) for improving long term energy, food and water provision is one of the region's greatest challenges. The Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region in Ethiopia (SNNPR) provides an excellent case study for transdisciplinary research on how community sustainability and resilience might be improved by better use of organic resources. Organic resources are scarce, with seasonality causing significant variation in available water across the year, while diverse cultural norms and institutional arrangements, framing access to land, water and energy, emphasise that the success and impact of interventions depends on complex interactions between what science makes possible and how decisions are made by individuals and communities.
In a Nexus Network grant, engagement with farmers, householders and policy makers from Halaba District and the wider SNNPR identified key Nexus challenges as complex, multi-dimensional and inter-connected. The interaction between the use of organic resources for energy, water and food in the region is dynamic, extremely complex and highly spatially variable. As elsewhere in SSA, most of the rural population use solid biomass for cooking and heating, with wood, dung and crop residues the main energy sources. However, these resources are also crucial to long term sustainable food production and water use. Dung and crop residues provide organic fertilisers that improve water holding capacity of the soil. Demands on organic wastes for fuel and livestock feed reduce the use of dung and crop residues as soil amendments, which reduces biomass production and organic inputs to the soil.</p>

本数据集涵盖埃塞俄比亚南部各族族裔人民区域（Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region，简称SNNPR）哈拉巴地区的家庭有机资源使用情况（包括粪便、木材和作物残体）及相关时间投入数据。
为捕捉季节波动特征，研究团队尽可能对受访家庭开展了两次访谈：基线数据采集于2016年10月，第二轮数据采集于2017年3月至4月。除有机资源使用与时间投入相关问题外，基线调查还涵盖资产与土地利用信息，第二轮调查则仅包含有限的市场相关内容。
撒哈拉以南非洲（Sub-Saharan Africa，简称SSA）农村地区面临的核心挑战之一，便是有机资源短缺难以支撑长期能源、粮食与供水保障。埃塞俄比亚南部各族族裔人民区域（SNNPR）为跨学科研究提供了优质案例场景，可探索如何通过优化有机资源利用提升社区可持续性与韧性。该区域有机资源本就匮乏，加之季节波动导致全年可用水资源存在显著差异；同时，塑造土地、水与能源获取途径的多元文化规范与制度安排表明，相关干预措施的成效与影响，取决于科学可行路径与个体及社群决策逻辑之间的复杂交互作用。
在某纽带研究网络（Nexus Network）资助项目中，研究团队与哈拉巴地区及更广范围SNNPR内的农户、家庭户主及政策制定者开展合作，明确了核心纽带挑战具有复杂性、多维度性与相互关联性。该区域有机资源用于能源、水与粮食生产的交互关系具有动态性，且极度复杂、空间异质性极强。与撒哈拉以南非洲其他地区一致，多数农村人口以固体生物质作为炊事与取暖燃料，木材、粪便及作物残体为主要能源来源。但此类资源同时也是长期可持续粮食生产与水资源利用的关键支撑：粪便与作物残体可作为有机肥料，提升土壤持水能力。而当有机废弃物被用作燃料或牲畜饲料时，其作为土壤改良剂的使用量便会减少，进而降低生物质产量与土壤有机输入量。