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Sustainable land management and its effects on water security and poverty: Evidence from a watershed intervention program in Ethiopia

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Title Sustainable land management and its effects on water security and poverty: Evidence from a watershed intervention program in Ethiopia
 
Creator Kato, Edward
Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework
Tiruneh, Solomon
Ringler, Claudia
 
Subject sustainability
land management
water conservation
 
Description This paper investigates the impacts of sustainable land management (SLM) on water security and poverty based on an evaluation of a watershed level SLM program promoted in Amhara regional state of Ethiopia. A household survey was conducted in two WLRC watersheds with SLM programming as well as complementary support and two adjacent watersheds without such programming. Our findings show that the SLM program significantly increased plot-level adoption of SLM practices, particularly of soil bunds and stone terraces. We also find that SLM contributes to water security for both crop and livestock production. Households in SLM-supported learning watersheds have more access to groundwater for irrigation and have higher crop yields for maize, mango and millet; have experienced improving water availability for livestock production in the past five years; and have higher income from livestock products than households in control watersheds. The positive impacts of SLM and complementary interventions on livestock income is attributed to the improved water security conditions in the learning watersheds, access to better animal forage planted along the SLM constructed structures, and animal vaccination and artificial insemination services that were part of the broader set of interventions. These findings further show that although SLM impacts were limited, the potential to improve welfare of smallholders across several livelihoods is enhanced when SLM is combined with other multifaceted complimentary interventions.
 
Date 2019
2020-02-25T12:18:23Z
2020-02-25T12:18:23Z
 
Type Other
 
Identifier Kato, Edward; Mekonnen, Dawit Kelemework; Tiruneh, Solomon; and Ringler, Claudia. 2019. Sustainable land management and its effects on water security and poverty: Evidence from a watershed intervention program in Ethiopia. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1811. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133144
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/107266
https://www.ifpri.org/publication/publication/sustainable-land-management-and-its-effects-water-security-and-poverty-evidence
https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133144
Land and Water Solutions
 
Language en
 
Relation IFPRI Discussion Paper
 
Rights Copyrighted; all rights reserved
Open Access
 
Format 32p.
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute