Land use types in Southwest Ethiopia, 1974 - 2011
SND-ID: snd1076-1. Version: 1.0. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5878/ckwz-5y16
Citation
Creator/Principal investigator(s)
Tola Gemechu Ango
- Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen
Research principal
Stockholm University
- Kulturgeografiska institutionen
Description
This data set contains land use types for 246 fields in Gera district in Southwestern Ethiopia. I collected this data in 2011 as part of a PhD project. Twenty-one smallholding farmers selected for the study used 213 of these fields while the remaining (33 fields) were fields adjacent to some of the fields used by the sample farmers. In addition to recording the land use in 2011 for all fields, through interview with the land users the land use types in 1991 and 1974 were identified for 151 and 117 fields, respectively. Major events occurred in 1974 (the socialist military government overthrew the last feudal monarch) and 1991 (the socialist military government was itself overthrown) in Ethiopia have helped trigger the interviewed farmers’ memory of past events. Farmers were able to identify the land use types during the three reference years (2011, 1991 and 1974) for 115 fields. Of the 213 fields used by the 21 farmers, I recorded the coordinates of the boundaries of 208 fields with a hand-held GPS. Similarly, I recorded the coordinates of the boundaries of the 33 fields adjacent to some of th
... Show more..Dataset contains land use types for 246 areas in the Gera district in southwestern Ethiopia. Data consists of GIS files with additional data in excel format. Show less..
Language
Unit of analysis
Population
farmers, fields
Time Method
Sampling procedure
Time period(s) investigated
1974 – 2011
Number of individuals/objects
246
Data format / data structure
Geographic spread
Geographic location: Ethiopia
Geographic description: Gera district in Soutwestern Ethiopia
Responsible department/unit
Kulturgeografiska institutionen
Research area
Physical geography (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Social sciences (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Human geography (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Farming (INSPIRE topic categories)
Keywords
Land use/land cover, Land use, Gis, Participatory field mapping
Ango, Tola Gemechu. "Ecosystem Services and Disservices in an Agriculture–Forest Mosaic: A Study of Forest and Tree Management and Landscape Transformation in Southwestern Ethiopia." PhD diss., Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-128537
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