Multi Purpose Seedling Need Assessment. The Case of Wolaita Zone, especially Humbo, Damot Woyde, Sodo Zuriya and Sodo Ketema

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2011 in the subject Forestry / Forestry Economics, grade: 1, , course: Forest management, language: English, abstract: The objectives of the study were, to assess the need of trees and coffee seedlings of the selected worada's, to know the yearly accepting potential of seedlings of the selected area, to assess the availability of Permanent tree nursery at study worada's and to assess the perception of community towards the establishment of permanent seedling nursery in their vicinity.

Deforestation is a contributor to global warming and is often cited as one of the major causes of the enhanced greenhouse effect. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, deforestation mainly in tropical areas, could account for up to one-third of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. But recent calculations suggest that carbon dioxide emissions from deforestation and forest degradation contribute about 12% of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions with a range from 6 to 17%. Plants remove carbon in the form of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during the process of photosynthesis.

Ethiopia is one of the countries where forest resources degradation exhibits primarily due to population explosion. The forest policy is also not said to be effective in forest policy regards. At present it is facing a serious ecological problem triggered mainly by the fast growth of population which led to destructive nature of land resource uses involving deforestation even without leaving time space for regeneration of natural forests. The situation exposes the land to serious land degradation altering local environment and micro climate. To change this situation urgent natural resource management primarily forest management strategies intervention is required.