Towards Climate-smart agriculture

Mei Xie, Ph.D Climate Change Group

World Bank

Stories from Ethiopia

Oromia

Amhara

Tigray

Ethiopia is transforming its landscape through Sustainable Land Management and Climate-smart agriculture

Area closure

Soil bunds Micro-basins

Soil bunds

Oromia

Photo: Mei Xie

community mobilization in Oromia

Photo: Mei Xie

- increase water infiltration - help stabilize soils - add “carbon”, sequestration

Before: Free grazing

Animals are under controlled grazing,

Photo: Mei Xie

Now: “Cut & Carry”

Photo: Mehari Photo: Mei Xie

“animal fattening” program

“Cut & Carry” + Community managed “area closure”

Photo: Mehari Photo: Mei Xie

Photo: Mehari

Tigray

Photo: Mei Xie Photo: Mehari, SLM

Treating degraded gullies Before After

Photo: GIZ

Photo: Mei Xie

15 million ha by conversation measures 10 million ha restored degraded land

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Photo: Mei Xie

Fish pond

Tomato, Onion Banana, chili Photo: Mei Xie

Apple seedlings

Manure management /compost Intercropping

Photo: GIZ

Higher Productivity

Health Ecosystem

Reduced GHG impact

Resilience to Climate change

Sustainable Landscape