The Role of Participatory Watershed Management Practice to Ensure Food Security: Case Study in Chenetaly Watershed, Guagusa Shikudad Woreda

Addisu Dagnaw

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The Role of Participatory Watershed Management Practice to Ensure Food Security: Case Study in Chenetaly Watershed, Guagusa Shikudad Woreda

Addisu Dagnaw

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Degradation of natural resources coupled with high rate of population growth and food insecurity are major development problems. The rapid global population growth and increasing impacts of climate change have resulted water and food shortage. Successful management of healthy landscapes helps to protect the balance between the carrying capacity, water utilization and quality, soil health and biodiversity and improve food security. The objective of this study was to investigate the contribution of SLMP initiated watershed management practices for food security in Chenetaly Watershed. The study has focused on the assessment of outcomes of WM intervention in terms of food production (availability) and access to food indicators household levels. The general objective of this study was to analyze participatory watershed management practice and its role on food security among the rural community in Chenetaly Watershed, which is located in Guagusa Shikudad Woreda, Amhara National Regional State he results showed that Chenetaly watershed was severely degraded due to inappropriate cultivation, over grazing, gully formation and deforestation factors before the introduction of watershed management practices. Due to the presence of high watershed degradation, the agricultural productivity of this area was very low and about 60% of the sample households did not able to cover their annual food demand from their own production. To overcome this problem, watershed management program was introduced in Chenetaly Watershed and many physical and biological conservation measures were implemented to reduce soil erosion, rehabilitate gully formation and decrease loss of soil fertility. The results of this study confirmed that the introduction of watershed management has brought some important changes in local ecosystem. Some of the major ecological changes include decrease in soil erosion, increase soil fertility and agricultural productivity, increase forest cover and firewood availability; increase the availability of grass and other livestock fodder. The food security outcomes of watershed management intervention achieved through improved crop and livestock’s productivities diversify sources of incomes, increases availability of food and increase food access. It is concluded that watershed management can play significant role to improve ecology and food security condition of the local people. The result of this study indicated that effective watershed management intervention has been undertaken in Chenetaly Watershed such best practices should extend to neighboring watersheds.

Published in	Science Research (Volume 11, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.sr.20231103.12
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Watershed Degradation, Watershed Management, Food Security

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