Reducing Land Degradation and Carbon Loss from Ethiopia's Soils to Strengthen Livelihoods and Resilience, 2019-2024

Two household surveys conducted in February/March 2021 (baseline) and February/March 2023 (endline) in Southern Ethiopia in localities (kebeles) where land was judged to be highly degraded. The endline survey aimed to collect data from the same set of households (and respondents) as in the baseline survey. The data collected included a discrete choice experiment (DCE)on preferences over local community choices on land management, experience and attitudes to land degradation, plus demographic, land use and livelihood information. The second survey also collected information on knowledge, attitudes, and behaviour with respect to different types of gully interventions.
The data collected was designed to allow specific interventions to be evaluated. In two treatment kebele the Ethiopian Bureau of Agriculture provided resources to selected groups to enable them to undertake new productive activities in beekeeping, sheep and oxen rearing drawing on the resources of local “exclosure areas”. Data was collected both from these areas in the surveys plus in two control districts. In addition, in one kebele on-farm field experiments on low-cost gully rehabilitation measures were undertaken and demonstrated to the community.