Objectives

General Objective:

The main objective of this project is to strengthen land resilience in NW Ethiopia

Specific objectives:

1. To assimilate and integrate knowledge on present and past environmental dynamics in order to understand the land resilience potential of NW Ethiopia, and
2. To strengthen the research capacity of BDU, including its capacity to outreach research findings on land resilience to the community and to stakeholders (disaggregated by sex)

Expected Intermediate results

• Understand land degradation trends
• Floodplain aggradation
• Bird ecology and forest connectivity