Farmers’ perception and reasons for practicing farmer managed natural regeneration in Tigray, Ethiopia

dc.contributor.authorKibru, Tigist
dc.contributor.authorHusseini, Rikiatu
dc.contributor.authorBirhane, Emiru
dc.contributor.authorHaggar, Jeremy
dc.contributor.authorSolomon, Negasi
dc.date.accessioned2023-02-02T23:48:34Z
dc.date.available2023-02-02T23:48:34Z
dc.date.issued2021-10
dc.description© The Author(s) 2020. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . The Version of Scholarly Record of this Article is published in Agroforestry Systems, 2021, available online at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10457-020-00546-x . Keywords: agro-ecology; agroforestry; natural regeneration; Africa; Ethiopia.
dc.description.abstractFarmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) is a rapid, low cost and easily replicated approach to restore and improve degraded agricultural, forest and pasture lands. The study was conducted in low (500–1500 m.a.s.l) and mid (1500–2300 m.a.s.l) altitude agro-ecologies of Tigray region assessing farmer’s perception and reasons to practice FMNR. Purposive sampling was used to select three peasant associations (PA’s) from each agro-ecology. Simple random sampling was used to select respondents from household heads practicing FMNR. There were 15 respondents from each PA. Total respondents used for the study in both agro-ecologies were 90. All the data required for the study was collected through in-depth household survey and group discussions. Forty two percent (42.2%) of the respondents had 21–30 years of FMNR experience. Seventeen percent of the respondents with FMNR experience were from lowland and 26% were from mid land agro-ecology. FMNR has been practiced for more than two decades in the study areas. In both low and midland agro-ecologies, motivation of the respondents to practice FMNR was the training received from expert’s (37.1%) and neighbors’ success (29.2%). In the lowland, respondent’s main purpose to practice FMNR was fuel wood and fruit collection (49%) while in the midland the objectives were for fuel wood (50%), soil conservation (47%) and fodder (47%). FMNR has enormous importance in the livelihoods of the rural people especially in providing fuel wood, food/fruits, construction materials and farm equipment.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis research was funded by Climate Impact Research Capacity and Leadership Enhancement (CIRCLE) Program form the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).
dc.identifier.citationKibru, T., Husseini, R., Birhane, E., Haggar, J., & Solomon, N. (2021). Farmers’ perception and reasons for practicing farmer managed natural regeneration in Tigray, Ethiopia. Agroforestry Systems, 95, 1327–1342. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-020-00546-x
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-020-00546-x
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14096/246
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Nature
dc.titleFarmers’ perception and reasons for practicing farmer managed natural regeneration in Tigray, Ethiopia
dc.typeArticle

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