2020 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Resilience and ecosystem services assessment in socio-ecological landscape of Jefoure land use system in Ethiopia
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19F19804
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| Research Institution | Institute for Global Environmental Strategies |
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Principal Investigator |
齊藤 修 公益財団法人地球環境戦略研究機関, その他部局等, 上席研究員 (50397668)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ACHEMO MESFIN 公益財団法人地球環境戦略研究機関, その他部局等, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-11-08 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | landscape / Jefoure roads / Agroforestry system / Church forest / Enset / Landscape resilience / Future scenario |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In the FY2020, the fellow started the period by extracting spatial features of Jefoure roads from the recent orthophoto images. He analyzed the land use land cover, key informants, focused group discussions, and household survey data. Based on these data, he developed five peer-reviewed journal manuscripts, and the first two were regarding Jefoure road’s characteristics and its contributions to the local people. The fellow researched church forests to understand their characteristics and contributions to people. In the FY2020, he wrote two peer-reviewed journal manuscripts on detailed characteristics of the home garden agroforestry system and evaluation of the diverse contributions of an indigenous enset crop in the landscape. These studies generate valuable empirical evidence about the various indigenous ecosystems and help to understand the landscape better, and they can support decision-makers to develop strategies for sustainable management of the socio-ecological landscapes.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
In FY 2020, the fellow has written five peer-reviewed journal manuscripts from the planned research activities. Two manuscripts were published, and the remaining three are under review process. He generated important empirical evidence regarding Jefoure roads, church forests, enset-based home garden systems, enset crop, and the related land use management of the socio-ecological landscape. During this reporting period, he planned to participate in conferences to outreach his research outputs and shared experiences. However, he was unable to do because most conferences have been postponed due to the COVID-19 situation. The pandemic also affected this research by not achieving planned activities such as assessing cultural ecosystem services and population predictions. The reason is that working at home could not make the technical work efficient and doing according to schedules, and the activities required additional field surveys to refine the previously collected data. Despite those unpredictable obstacles, overall, the research project is making good progress, and the remaining activities would be accomplished in the FY2021.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In FY2021, the fellow will analyze the data collected from workshops conducted to evaluate the resilience of the Gurage socio-ecological landscape. He will assess the overall resilience capacity of the landscape and explore the differences within villages. The synergies between resilience indicators of SEPLS and SDGs indicators will be evaluated. Based on this analysis, he will write a manuscript regarding the landscape’s resilience status and SDGs gaps in monitoring resilience at the landscape level. His next activity will be developing future scenarios for sustainable management of the landscape. Future scenarios such as business as usual, conservation, sustainability, and agricultural intensifications will be developed, and their synergies and trade-offs between SDGs and ecosystem services will be analyzed. The future scenarios would help to integrate all the generated results in this research project activities and support the development of landscape-based resilience and SDGs achievement strategies. The investigated results will be disseminated through publication and oral presentation at the fellow’s host institute of United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study for Sustainability and Institute for Global Environmental Strategies. The COVID-19 situation will continue affecting the research works; however, most of the research plans will be expected to be undertaken.
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