Regenerate forest in Ethiopia: Support Carbon sequestration & wellbeing of families

Ethiopia is one of the most disaster-prone countries in Africa exposing the population to famine and loss of property and livestock. Any success in socio-economic development is put at risk because of regular droughts and floods while land degradation is one of the major contributing factors. Loss of vegetation and deforestation due to increased demand for land, pasture and wood, especially firewood, exposes the soil to erosion. Vast areas of Ethiopia have decreased their soil fertility and agricultural value aggravated by climate change and erratic rainfall patterns. World Vision Ethiopia will support local communities of Kindo Koyisha, Offa and Shashemene in Southern Ethiopia to become more resilient to climate change impacts. The project involves the restoration of degraded lands through the regeneration of several indigenous tree species in mountainous regions of South Western Ethiopia. By undertaking these reforestation activities, the project will contribute to climate change mitigation by removing atmospheric carbon due to the reforestation activities. The project gives special emphasis to involving the wider community through organizing the community into voluntary community-based institutions to ensure the communities have ownership of the project. Moreover, increased participation in the sustainable use and conservation of natural resources is achieved through awareness creation, providing user-rights certification for the forest areas within the project, capacity building and empowering, sustainable generation of income from carbon credits and utilization of forest and non-forest products by the communities. The project applies the Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) Technique to reforest degraded lands (https://fmnrhub.com.au/fmnr-manual/). FMNR is an empowering form of social forestry which gives individuals and communities both responsibility for care and nurture of naturally occurring woody vegetation and rewards from sustainable harvesting of wood and non-timber forest products. The main components of FMNR are awareness creation for all partners working at ground level; advocacy for favorable policy environment; adequate follow up and encouragement and organizational structure such as forestry cooperatives. FMNR has a significant positive impact on income, food security, disaster resilience and reduction of conflict and is a significant tool for both climate change adaptation and mitigation. It has proven to have a positive effect from small scale to landscape, as a means of restoring degraded land, reversing desertification, enhancing ground water recharge and contributing to reforestation. In addition to FMNR, land that cannot be restored by natural means because of the lack of living stumps and soil seed banks will be reforested by enrichment planting. Nurseries are established within local communities and focus on production of native and naturalized seedlings.

Project ID

GS11052

Registry

Gold Standard

Type

Afforestation/Reforestation · Forestry & Land Use

Removal or reduction

Impermanent Removal

Methodology

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Developer

World Vision Finland · 1 project

Country

Ethiopia

First vintage

—

Crediting period

2020-07-31 to 2048-07-31

Estimated yearly credits

40,930

Scale

Large Scale · Standalone

Sustainable Development Goals

Goal 5: Gender Equality · Goal 15: Life On Land · Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth · Goal 13: Climate Action

Data from

Berkeley VROD v2026-08 + Gold Standard registry

The registry gives Ethiopia as the location, so this project is not drawn on the map. It is counted in the country totals.