Building soil carbon stocks to enhance adaptation and mitigate climate change in climate-smart landscapes, Southern Ethiopia

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cg.contributor.affiliationCGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Securityen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Center for Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationAddis Ababa Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationAfrica RISINGen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.coverage.countryEthiopia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ET
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierDawit Solomon: 0000-0002-6839-6801
cg.creator.identifierMaren Radeny: 0000-0001-6470-8372
cg.creator.identifierJohn Walker Recha: 0000-0002-1146-7197
cg.creator.identifierWuletawu Abera: 0000-0002-3657-5223
cg.creator.identifierLulseged Tamene: 0000-0002-4846-2330
cg.identifier.projectCCAFS: PII-EA_CSV
cg.subject.ccafsCLIMATE-SMART TECHNOLOGIES AND PRACTICESen
dc.contributor.authorTadesse, Meronen
dc.contributor.authorSimane, Belayen
dc.contributor.authorAmbaw, Gebermedihinen
dc.contributor.authorRecha, John W.M.en
dc.contributor.authorAbera, Wuletawuen
dc.contributor.authorTamene, Lulseged D.en
dc.contributor.authorDemeke, Getamesayen
dc.contributor.authorMekonnen, Kinduen
dc.contributor.authorRadeny, Maren A.O.en
dc.contributor.authorSolomon, Dawiten
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-11T14:22:06Zen
dc.date.available2018-12-11T14:22:06Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/98536
dc.titleBuilding soil carbon stocks to enhance adaptation and mitigate climate change in climate-smart landscapes, Southern Ethiopiaen
dcterms.abstractClimate change is a major challenge, particularly for Ethiopia’s rural populations who depend on rainfall for subsistence farming and are therefore more vulnerable to climate-related risks. Agriculture accounts for more than 40% of Ethiopia’s gross domestic product (GDP) (UNDP, 2015), and contributes significantly to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (FDRE, 2015). In Ethiopia, annual GHG emissions were estimated to be 150 Mt CO2e in 2010, with 50% of emissions coming from agriculture, and another 37% from forestry sectors — mainly agriculture related deforestation (FAO, 2016). Furthermore, the capacity of Ethiopia’s agricultural, forest, and grassland sectors to act as carbon sinks is decreasing rapidly due to unsustainable agricultural practices. Since 2011, the federal government of Ethiopia has embarked on implementing the Climate Resilient Green Economy (CRGE) strategy. CRGE has ambitious commitments in its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), to "climate-proof" Ethiopia’s Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP) by curbing its GHG emissions by more than half by 2030, while also building resilience against climate risks and future climate change. As set forth in the second GTP, reaching this goal will require boosting agricultural productivity by introducing climate-smart technologies and practices that include integrated watershed management, conservation agriculture, as well as nutrient and crop management across agroecosystems and landscapes with the potential to reduce GHG emissions by 40 Mt CO2e in 2030 (CRGE, 2011).en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationTadesse M, Simane B, Ambaw G, Recha J, Abera W, Tamene L, Demeke G, Mekonnen K, Radeny M, Solomon D. 2018. Building soil carbon stocks to enhance adaptation and mitigate climate change in climate-smart landscapes, Southern Ethiopia. CCAFS Info Note. Wageningen, Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).en
dcterms.issued2018-12-11
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND-3.0
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.typeBrief

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