Assefa, R

Frankl, Amaury

Gebreslassie, Seifu

Nyssen, Jan

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Geophysical Research AbstractsVol. 19, EGU2017-2225, 2017EGU General Assembly 2017© Author(s) 2016. CC Attribution 3.0 License.Land conservation knowledge in farmers’ language – a case from Tigray,EthiopiaJan Nyssen (1,2), Romha Assefa (3,4), Seifu Gebreslassie (5,6), and Amaury Frankl (1)(1) Department of Geography, Ghent University, Belgium (jan.nyssen@ugent.be), (2) Previously at Dept. of Land ResourcesManagement and Environmental Protection, Mekelle University, Ethiopia, (3) Relief Society of Tigray, Mekelle, Ethiopia, (4)Previously at Ma’ar Project, Dogu’a Tembien, Tigray, Ethiopia, (5) EthioTrees Project, Dogu’a Tembien, Tigray, Ethiopia, (6)Previously at Selam-Watsani Project, Dogu’a Tembien, Tigray, EthiopiaResearch findings on land degradation and rehabilitation in the Tigray region of Ethiopia over more than 20 yearshave been published in many journals, and contributed to scientific knowledge that is relevant for rural developmentand sustainable livelihood. Direct knowledge sharing with farmers was done through (i) the implementation of fivedevelopment projects, (ii) the organisation of so-called Farmers’ Days (a dozen in total) in which research findingswere demonstrated in the field, and (iii) the development of three extension manuals (two in the local Tigrignalanguage and one in English). In a bid to better reach the rural community, to hand the knowledge directly tothe farmers, and hence to empower them, we took inspiration from ‘almanacs’ as they had been used in northwestEurope. One of the traditional functions of such almanacs is, in view of the close links between a calendar and farmworks, to make them most useful to the peasant majority of the population. Hence, the objectives of the researchreported here were to(1) develop a booklet in local Tigrigna language that holds basic research findings as well as local knowledge onland conservation, expressed in simple words in Tigrigna language, and combined with other useful and sometimeslighter information;(2) distribute it among farmers in our main research district with the aim that it is not only read by farmers but alsopassed on and discussed within the communities (farmer-to-farmer extension); and(3) evaluate the take-up of the messages contained in the booklet.

Land conservation knowledge in farmers’ language : a case from Tigray, Ethiopia

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