Area detail
Gimbo, Kefa
Southwest Ethiopia Peoples' Region / Kefa / Gimbo
Priority score
63
Investment brief
Assisted natural regeneration + soil and water conservation
Gimbo, Kefa is a candidate area because the available map and source data point to a possible restoration opportunity.
Rank
1
Risk
low
Data quality
100
Recommendation
Assisted natural regeneration + soil and water conservation
Nearby communities may benefit from restoration work.
Rainfall looks suitable enough to support new tree growth.
What shaped the score
Local obstacles and sources
What to check before funding
This area scores 63. It ranks well because the available information on land cover, rainfall, soil, access, and community benefit looks stronger than many other mapped areas.
The abstract reports that farm households mainly used inorganic fertilizer, while also practicing crop rotation, intercropping, grass strip, contour farming, and residue management.
Farmers rated extra labor for farming, livestock feed shortage, and farmland devastation among the main consequences of soil erosion; extra labor had the highest mean score (4.57).
Inorganic fertilizer was practiced relatively well, but compost, animal manure, and green manure were practiced poorly according to respondent mean scores.
The study area had 38 rural and one urban kebeles; 26 kebeles were excluded because they did not extensively practice soil conservation and were less susceptible to erosion due to flat terrain.
Respondents identified limited use of soil fertility management measures, overgrazing, and plowing steep slopes among the main causes of soil erosion, with limited use scoring highest (mean 4.26).
In the study area, 26.2% of respondents said their fields suffered severe erosion, and 54.1% said erosion had a severe effect on crop yield productivity.