Promoting Indigenous Agro-forestry Practices for Tackling Climate Change: Experience of

Sustainable Land Use Forum, Ethiopia

Habtemariam Abate (Ph.D)Executive Director, SLUF

Rio De Janeiro, June, 2012

Why Agro Forestry? Gedeo IAFP Elements of the Ensete-based, Multistory

IAFP of Gedeo Where do SLUF Promote it? How do SLUF Promote it? What are the Challenges Recommendations

Topic

Agro forestry is sustainable unlike monoculture:

Promote agricultural development while

Responding to CC (adaptation, mitigation) and

Reduce lose of natural capital and resources

2. Why Agroforestry?

Promote Agl Devt

2. Why Cont’d

Reduce lose of natural capital

2. Why Cont.d

Responding to CC (Mitigation, Adaptation)

2. Why cont’d

Location

2. Ensete Based Multistory Indigenous Agro forestry Practice of Gedeo

Density: 1000-1500 persons/km2 vs 178 (Cereal based HE)

Support: 3 million people

2. Gedeo IAF Cont’d

Upper story (Trees (Canopy) Milletia Albezia Cordia Africana Croton Macrostachys

Middle Story Ensete Ventricosum (pacemaker) Coffea Arabica

3. Elements of the Ensete-based, multistory IAFS of Gedeo

Floor Herbaceous Annual Crops (grains) Root crops and vegetables Faunal Agroforest Components

L/S Bee hiving

3. Elements Cont’d

3. Elements Cont’d

4.1) Geography

4. Where do SLUF promote it?

4.2 Land Use Type of Intervention areas4. Where? cont’d

5.1 In Hillsides

5. How do SLUF Promote it?

5.2 In Farmlands

5. How Cont’d?

a) Policy Perspective

Can not address Food Security

b) Community Perspective

Cultural barrier (Food Habit)

6. Challenges

Constructive policy dialogue

Research Input

7. Recommendation