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Presentation for African Economic Conference

Climate Change Mitigation in Ethiopia: To what extent do carbon sequestration projects put impact on smallholder farm households’ income?

*Tagesse Abo1, Senbetie Kuma2, Tegegn Hailu3Wolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia

Dec. 5- 7, 2016

Presentation Outline

Introduction Objectives

MethodologyFindingsRecommendations

Human activities caused a substantial increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO

2) in the atmosphere. Is causing measurable global warming

Adverse effects:sea-level rise; increased frequency and intensity of wild fire, floods, recurrent droughts and tropical storms; INTRODUCTION

Effects:

erratic and ever changing amount and distribution in rain fall;

snow and runoff; and disturbance of coastal marine and other ecosystems

Proposed solutions for

human driven global warming and deforestation trends :political efforts to make forest preservation more socio-economically attractive(Brown, et al. 2002; Watson

et al., 2000). The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, 2006);the Kyoto Protocol (Santilli, et al. 2005)

“Carbon sequestration”

1) Terrestrial (biological) sequestration: accomplished through soil & vegetation conservation

2) Geological sequestration: accomplished through trapping CO2 in to the ground (costly)

Ethiopia:

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Climate- sensetive agricultural production and pressures: Population increaseLand fragmentationDeforestationRecurrent drought and famine

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arbon sequestration projects (WVE + WSU)

Humbo; Sodo Community Engaged Reforestation project; and Platform (Context): FMNRClimate change mitigation practices:

Before intervention (2006)

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Seedling production and planting

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Techniques

Objectives of the study

1) examining the portfolios of economic engagements of the projects participants; 2) analyzing the extent that the project participation puts impact on per capita income of the project participants in the project site; and 3) identifying factors determine the farmers’ decision to participate in the carbon sequestration projects.

Sampling 199 households (Yemane

, 1969)Instruments: PRA (KII, FGD, observations, document analysis)Household survey questionnaire

Analytical procedures: 1) qualitative descriptions2) PSM

3) Binary logistic regression

Results & Discussion

Economic engagements:Carbon salesWood & tree products (fruits, seeds, timber, bamboo value chains, etc)Grass for fodder

Sales of seedlingsEco-Tourism income apiculture

Livelihood diversification

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