Rethinking eucalyptus globulus labill. Based land use systems in smallholder farmers livelihoods: A case of kolobo watershed, West Shewa, Ethiopia

Basic information

• Case ID: INT-242-1
• Intervention type: Created habitats
• Intervention description:

  cropland has been con- verted to growing Eucalyptus woodlots … households prefer to plant Eucalyptus on cultivated land (40%), grazing land (34%) and degraded land (26%).

• Landscape/sea scape ecosystem management: No

• Climate change impacts	Effect of Nbs on CCI	Effect measures
  Loss of food production	Positive	"Food security Soil Fertility: soil physical and chemical properties “results of the study showed higher soil bulk density, soil OC content and TN under Eu- calyptus as compared to cultivated and degraded land, which implies less detrimental e ect of Eucalyptus on soil fertility. e clay particles and CEC were signi cantly higher under the E. globulus compared with all land uses except forest.” Adaptation/Food security/local economies: Outcome measures derived from socio-economic questionaires of local farmers e cash obtained from selling the Eucalyptus has filled the food shortage gaps of the families. Eucalyptus trees are regarded as insurance resource or life saviour, because they are cut and readily converted to cash dur- ing critical needs. e average annual income from E. globulus under poor, medium and rich households are 11219.27, 12207.48 and 15024.14 ETB/ha, respectively. Table 10 showed that 83% of households were food secure because of E. globulus contri- bution to their income… made a substantial contribution to the income of the households, even more than agricultural crops Food security Soil moisture “Soil under forest had the highest (34%) and degraded land had the lowest soil moisture (13%). Soil moisture under E. globulus (18%) was lower compared to that under the forest (34%), under grazing (27%), of cultivated land (18%) but greater than that under degraded land (12%). Although the absolute value of soil moisture under E. globulus was lower than the cultivated land, the results were not signi cantly di erent at P > 0.05 (Table 2). is is probably attributed to short rotation age of E. globulus (4 years).”  coded as positive because it can have either no effect (compared to crop lands) or positive effect (compared to degraded lands)"

• Approach implemented in the field: Yes
• Specific location:

  Kolobo watershed, Adea Berga district of the west Shewa zone, Oromia, Ethiopia. e area where the study is conducted is about 250 ha. e district is located at a distance of 74 km from Addis Ababa on the way to Mogor Cement Enterprise. Geographically, it is located between 9°12′ to 9°37′N and 38°17′ to 38°36′E.

• Country: Ethiopia
• Habitat/Biome type: Created forest |
• Issue specific term: Not applicable
  

Evidence

• Notes on intervention effectivness: "Effectiveness for soil fertility determined by comparing to other land-uses (degraded land and cultivated lands with different crops) which may act as controls b/c plantations were established on lands that were previously in these uses Effectiveness for contribution to food security determined in part by statements from farmers (non-experimental) but also by comparing to farmers who do not use any plantations, only growing crops (in this case, could consider quasi-experimental) - extracting socio-economic data from questionaires "" e absence of E. globulus from the land use systems has shifted all food secure households to food insecure because of the fact that 4 quintal is de- ducted from average production (17.33 quintal) to purchase fertiliser and then 13.33 quintal is less than the average production needed to support family (15.89 quintal). erefore, restricting smallholder farmers from planting E. globulus may negatively a ect their livelihoods. """
• Is the assessment original?: Yes
• Broadtype of intervention considered: Not applicable
• Compare effectivness?: No
• Compared to the non-NBS approach: Not applicable
• Report greenhouse gas mitigation?: No
• Impacts on GHG: Not applicable
• Assess outcomes of the intervention on natural ecosystems: No
• Impacts for the ecosystem: Not reported
• Ecosystem measures: n/a
• Assess outcomes of the intervention on people: Yes
• Impacts for people: Positive
• People measures: "**same as climate impact Outcome measures derived from socio-economic questionaires of local farmers e cash obtained from selling the Eucalyptus has filled the food shortage gaps of the families. Eucalyptus trees are regarded as insurance resource or life saviour, because they are cut and readily converted to cash dur- ing critical needs. e average annual income from E. globulus under poor, medium and rich households are 11219.27, 12207.48 and 15024.14 ETB/ha, respectively. Table 10 showed that 83% of households were food secure because of E. globulus contri- bution to their income… made a substantial contribution to the income of the households, even more than agricultural crops"
• Considers economic costs: No
• Economic appraisal conducted: No
• Economic appraisal described:
• Economic costs of alternative considered: No
• Compared to an alternative: Not reported

Evaluation methodology

• Type of data: Mixed qualitative/quantitative
• Is it experimental: Yes
• Experimental evalution done: In-situ/field
• Non-experimental evalution done: Not applicable
• Study is systematic: