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For decades, and in line with global initiatives, Ethiopia has made persistent efforts to reclaim its degraded lands into ecologically and socioeconomically plausible enterprises through the exclosure establishment. Tigray, a region in Ethiopia, has been a key actor in the implementation of exclosures, with immense experiences and innovations for others to learn. The region was recognized internationally and won a gold medal for its "Best Future Land Policy" in 2017. To enhance success of exclosure as a restoration strategy, deeper evaluation of critical factors is crucial. For the first time, we assessed exclosures against key success factors of land restoration through detailed discussions with 76 Key Informants and five focus groups in 19 villages of Tanqua-Abergele district of Tigray. The factors include the objective of establishment, restoration approaches, pre-exclosure land-use, levels of degradation before establishment, spatial and temporal distribution, availability of command area, time elapsed to conserve and presence of conflicts in view of understanding what attributes are in support of or missing for economic and ecological development. Analysis of restoration approach revealed that 30%, 20% and 50% of the exclosures were natural regeneration, soil and water conservation only and plantation, respectively. We found out that more than 60% of the recruited exclosures were severely degraded during establishment and calculated that 54.4% were established to comply with regional plans, 34.4% for the development of grass, water and farmlands and 10 % to buffer communal resources. While 70% have command areas, only 7% started irrigation schemes. We proved that 28, 64 and 66 sites did not meet objectives, experienced illegal grazing and tree cutting, respectively. While 75 sites are linked to another village, district or region, only five administrative units collaborated to work for a common interest and 17% experienced conflicts. We conclude that pre-establishment assessment was not properly conducted which is critical for successful exclosure development and decision on type of exclosures, their management and objective evaluation of progresses. We recommend a detailed characterization of future recruitment of degraded lands for restoration programs, considering that the land is suitable for sustainable ecological and socioeconomic development of the local population.

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Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. The Study Area
3. Results
3.1. Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Exclosure Types in Tanqua-Abergele District
3.2. Exclosures objective, illegal grazing and tree cutting and Conflicts
4. Discussion
4.1. Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Exclosure Types in Tanqua-Abergele District
4.2. Objective of exclosure establishment
4.3. Pre-exclosure land use
4.4. Level of Degradation, Duration of SWC and Plantation of exclosures during establishment
4.5. Command Area, Cooperation and Conflicts
5. Conclusions
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• Haileselassie Ghebremariam Araya [ University of Nairobi, Department of Land Resources Management Agricultural Technology, Nairobi, Kenya ] Corresponding Author
• Oliver Vivian Wasonga [ University of Nairobi, Department of Land Resources Management Agricultural Technology, Nairobi, Kenya ]
• Stephen Mureithi [ University of Nairobi, Department of Land Resources Management Agricultural Technology, Nairobi, Kenya ]
• Emiru Birhane [ Mekelle University, Department of Land Resources Management and Environmental Protection, Mekelle, Ethiopia ]

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• 간행물명

  The Journal of Sciences and Innovation for Sustainable Peace(구 The journal of Hyojeong Academia)

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  반년간

• pISSN

  2982-9305

• 수록기간

  2023~2026

• 십진분류

  KDC 238 DDC 289