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Land-use change and its socio-environmental impact in Eastern Ethiopia’s highland

Land-use change and its socio-environmental impact in Eastern Ethiopia’s highland

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Date of publication
december 2014
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ISBN / Resource ID
AGRIS:US201400057554
Pages
757-768

The Alemaya district (Eastern Ethiopian highlands) is characterized by undulating physiographic features with arid, semi-arid, and humid climatic conditions. This study evaluated socio-environmental changes in land use and land cover during 1985–2011. Screen digitization on remotely sensed data (i.e., Landsat images from 1985 to 2011) was performed to produce 10 classes of land use and land cover. Then, final land-use maps were prepared using a geographic information system following field verification and accuracy assessment. The drying of water bodies, including the prominent lakes Alemaya, Adele, and Tinike, had been the most important environmental change observed. Degraded land, marsh, perennial cropland, and residential areas increased by 37, 438, 42, and 190� %, respectively, whereas grassland, plantation, shrubland, and temporal cropland decreased by 64, 11, 63, and 29� %, respectively. The increase in land degradation (+37� %), the other major observed problem, has made large areas unsuitable for agriculture and has reduced crop productivity. These land-use and land-cover changes have affected both the environment and the livelihoods of local residents; especially the issue related to land degradation requires urgent attention.

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Meshesha, Derege Tsegaye
Tsunekawa, Atsushi
Tsubo, Mitsuru
Ali, Syed Ahmad
Haregeweyn, Nigussie

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