1. Wolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia
Climate Change Mitigation in Ethiopia: To what extent do carbon sequestration projects put impact on smallholder farm households’ income?
*Tagesse Abo1, Senbetie Kuma2, Tegegn Hailu3
Wolaita Sodo University, Ethiopia
Presentation for African Economic Conference
Dec. 5- 7, 2016

2. Presentation Outline Introduction Objectives Methodology Findings
Recommendations

3. INTRODUCTION
Human activities caused a substantial increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) 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;

4. Effects:
erratic and ever changing amount and distribution in rain fall;
snow and runoff; and
disturbance of coastal marine and other ecosystems

5. 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)

6. “Carbon sequestration”
1) Terrestrial (biological) sequestration: accomplished through soil & vegetation conservation
2) Geological sequestration: accomplished through trapping CO2 in to the ground (costly)

7. Ethiopia: 1. Climate- sensetive agricultural production and pressures:
Population increase
Land fragmentation
Deforestation
Recurrent drought and famine

8. Sodo Community Engaged Reforestation project; and
Climate change mitigation practices:
Carbon sequestration projects (WVE + WSU)
Humbo;
Sodo Community Engaged Reforestation project; and
Platform (Context): FMNR

9. Before intervention (2006)

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11. Seedling production and planting

12. Techniques

13. 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.

14. Sampling 199 households (Yemane, 1969) Instruments:
PRA (KII, FGD, observations, document analysis)
Household survey questionnaire

15. Analytical procedures:
1) qualitative descriptions
2) PSM
3) Binary logistic regression

16. Economic engagements:
Results & Discussion
Economic engagements:
Carbon sales
Wood & tree products (fruits, seeds, timber, bamboo value chains, etc)
Grass for fodder
Sales of seedlings
Eco-Tourism income
apiculture

17. Livelihood diversification
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