Land use/Land cover changes in Ethiopia

Land use/land cover changes challenge of 3rd world countries over the last 50 years has been expansion of cultivated land largely at the expense of grazing land. This book is to examine land use/land cover dynamics in relation to livelihood conditions in Fogera plain, NW Ethiopia. Driving force of land use/land cover change was population pressure existed in and the adjacent areas followed by ecology, agricultural interventions, land tenure policies and growth of urban and market centers. Identified benefits assessed after change was access to high crop production prolonging food supply of inhabitants. The analysis is so to forward policy issues related to irrigation and rice technologies be upgrade for better food security in the area and transfer knowledge gained to other places nearly having similar agro-ecologic pattern. While decline in number of pure Fogera cattle breeds, after transformation of transhumant way of cattle management to sedentary farming and shortage of cattle s feed, may possibly be taken as input to devise strategy these breeds be kept, preserved and promote their economic significance to other parts of the country.

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Mussie Ybabe Mengistu, M.A. Studies Geography and Environmental Studies at Addis Ababa University, Lecturer in Gonder University, Ethiopia.