International Journal of Weather, Climate Change and Conservation Research (IJWCCCR)

EA Journals

The Role of Community Based Watershed Management for Rural Livelihood in Wereda Adwa, Central Tigray Zone

Abstract

Currently, climate change and its impacts is a key issue in Ethiopia. Adaptation to climate change is making a system suitable to moderate the impact of climate change or deal with the consequence or to take advantage of new opportunities. In line with this, the research has assessed the role of watershed management for climate change adaptation in Adwa in the case of mariamshewito Watershed. To address the above objective, the study used both   qualitative and quantitative data type. In order to collect valuable information, semi structured questionnaire, focus group discussion, key informant guide checklist and observation tools from both primary and secondary data sources were applied.  Similarly, different statistical methods such as percentage of frequencies, bar graphs, X 2 test, independent and paired sample T-Test and one way ANOVAs were used.   The key finding   of   the   research   presents that due to different interventions the livelihood of the community was diversified and enhanced especially;   income,   soil fertility, crop productivity, forest, water and food availability become improved. Even if it has some gaps in the process of implementation such as lack of linkage between sectors, lack of targeting on the poor, young   and women participation, weak   stakeholder linkage. It is concluded that the watershed management can play a significant role to enhance household’s livelihood and cope with climate change impacts. Then, to fill the gap and go along the sustainability of the watershed, the study recommended based on the findings.

Keywords: Climate Change /variability/, Climate change Adaptation, Community based Watershed Management, Livelihood Diversification Index

cc logo

This work by European American Journals is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 Unported License

 

Recent Publications

Email ID: submission@ea-journals.org
Impact Factor: 6.98
Print ISSN: 2059-2396
Online ISSN: 2059-240X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37745/ijwcccr.15

Author Guidelines
Submit Papers
Review Status

 

Scroll to Top

Don't miss any Call For Paper update from EA Journals

Fill up the form below and get notified everytime we call for new submissions for our journals.