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- Resource ID
- daaa3d3c-7b26-11ea-aeed-08002700f173
- Title
- Agro-ecological Zones Central Ethiopia
- Date
- April 10, 2020, 12:28 p.m., Publication
- Abstract
- The data helps users to determine the agroecological zone they are working In. Such zonation is necessary because some conservation measures cannot be applied in all areas. Also, certain trees, forage grass and legumes needed for revegetation will not grow everywhere. Therefore, the first step in soil and water conservation and forest development is to answer the question “In Which Agrocecological Zone Do You Work?”
The Ethiopian highlands have been divided for the purpose of soil and water consecration into fifteen traditional agroecological zones. Along with three additional zones, two in the extreme highlands and one in the extreme lowlands. Each zone in the data is different for mainly two reasons: rainfall and temperature.
The boundaries between two zones are generally also boundaries between agricultural crops. That is why the zones are called ‘agroecological zones’.
Conservation measures are different for each zone. Therefore, it is important to know in which zone you are located when you carry out soil and water conservation. Your job in the first step of soil and water conservation is, therefore, is to find out in which zone your area is situated. We shall help you to find your zone using rainfall and elevation data. Generally, ‘dry’ is defined as having less than 900 mm of annual rainfall. ‘Moist’ is between 900 mm to 1400 mm, and ‘wet’ is above 1400 mm of annual rainfall.
Only one zone is used for the extreme lowlands of the Berha belt (below 500 m), namely the moist zone in the western lowlands of Ethiopia. Three zones are in the Kolla belt (500–1500 m), namely a dry, moist and wet zone.
Three zones are also in the Weyna Dega belt (1500–2300 m).
The Dega belt (2300–3200 m), too, has a wet, moist, and a dry zone, the dry zone being located mainly in the north-eastern highlands.
The High Dega belt between 3200–3700 m is situated in the cold high mountain area and has a wet and moist zone.
The data was created using QGIS.
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- Owner
- admin
- Point of Contact
- kefyalewsahle.k@gmail.com
- Purpose
- This layer represents the agro-ecological zones of part of the Hawassa-Zeway watershed. The watershed is part of the Rift valley Lakes basin within Ethiopia. The watershed is part of the Rift valley Lakes basin within Ethiopia. This data was created to support the “Natural Resources Conservation and Development Activities”. It targets the conservation and sustainable use of the forest-related resources within the Hawassa-Zeway Watersheds.
- Maintenance Frequency
- continual
- Type
- grid
- Restrictions
- formal permission to do something
- None
- License
- Not Specified
- Language
- eng
- Temporal Extent
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- Supplemental Information
- No information provided
- Data Quality
- The input data have different resolutions: rainfall (900m) and elevation (30m). The rainfall data were derived from WorldClim
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- x0: 429180.000000000000000
- x1: 503910.000000000000000
- y0: 763200.000000000000000
- y1: 862830.000000000000000
- Spatial Reference System Identifier
- EPSG:32637
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- no keywords
- Category
- Environment
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