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To identify and assess policy, institutional and technological strategies to promote
more productive, sustainable, and poverty reducing land management;
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To strengthen the capacity of collaborators in the Ethiopian highlands to develop
and implement such strategies, based upon policy research; and
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To increase awareness of the underlying causes of land degradation problems in
the Ethiopian highlands and promising strategies for solving the problems.
2) Have there been any (major) changes to these objectives and for what reason?
No
C) Project activities
1) Which activities were employed to meet the objectives?
The overall project consisted of several activities that were executed by the different
partners, which will not be reviewed here. The focus of the agro-ecological analyses
that were carried out by the Wageningen UR partners (Alterra, PRI and LEI) were as
follows.
Assessment of current land use
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Analysis of collected data on nutrient management at farm level and cross
landscape elements, including constraint analysis (nutrient balances versus stocks,
farmers revenue/income, financial opportunities to invest).
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Formulation guidelines for problem solving.
Identification of existing alternative technologies
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Estimation of technical input-output coefficients for the identified land manage-
ment alternatives using secondary data, biophysical models and expert opinions.
Formulation of potential technologies
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Generate coefficients using the concepts incorporated in the Technical Coefficient
Generator (TCG).
Dynamics of natural resources
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Develop a dynamic description of soil quality indicators to 'fully' describe the
situation and the possible consequences of changes in agricultural practices.
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Combine the simplified descriptions ('models') that have been developed in the
framework of the 'Wageningen-SOW' activities (for nitrogen and phosphorus,
separately) and add a description (at the same level of detail) for carbon.
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