This chapter summarises the experience of a research project for developing and disseminating technologies for better management of Vertisols for improving productivity. Topics of discussion include Vertisol technology Development and testing in Ethiopia; the adoption pathways for the BBM…

Land degradation is a great threat for the future and it requires great effort and resources to ameliorate. The major causes of land degradation in Ethiopia are the rapid population increase, severe soil loss, deforestation, low vegetative cover and unbalanced crop and livestock production.…

The Government of Ethiopia drew up a long-term industrial strategy in 1994
known as Agricultural Development-Led Industrialization (ADLI). The
Government is convinced that agriculture is the engine that can propel the
socio-economic development of Ethiopia by providing the…

The future state of forests and forestry in Ethiopia are discussed in the light of current issues in the sector. The implications for the environment and for the success of forestry objectives are discussed.

The present “Supplement to the Report on the 1990 WCA” presents the census results collected from the reports issued by the countries that conducted censuses during the 1986-1995 decade and made them available to FAO after mid-1997. This publication also provides, in an internationally…

The current publication State of the Forest Genetic Resources in Ethiopia is issue of country national report presented at The Sub-Regional Workshop FAO/IPGRI/ICRAF on the conservation, management, sustainable utilization and enhancement of forest genetic resources in Sahelian and North-Sudanian…

The current publication «State of the Forest Genetic Resources in Eritrea» is issue of country national report presented at The Sub- Regional Workshop FAO/IPGRI/ICRAF on the conservation, management, sustainable utilization and enhancement of forest genetic resources in Sahelian and North-…

This working paper summarises the importance of forestry to Kenya’s economy and describes the effects of other sectors on its development. The current and predicted future status of the different arms of forestry in the country are presented.

The State of the World's Forests reports every two years on the status of forests, recent major policy and institutional developments and key issues concerning the forest sector. The purpose of the publication is to provide current, reliable and policy-relevant information to policy-makers…

Meeting symbol/code: COFO 2001 6-Supp.1

This publication is a set of practical guidelines and norms for field project engineers for the design and building of small hydraulic structures using earth and gabions. This publication would be useful in designing small earth dams with a gabion spillway, intake weirs for gravity irrigation…