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A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Watershed Rehabilitation: A Case Study in Farta Woreda, South Gondar, Ethiopia

T.W. Yitbarek, Satishkumar Belliethathan and Masresha Fetene
Ecological Restoration, March 2010, 28 (1) 46-55; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/er.28.1.46
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Yitbarek T.W. is an ecologist working with the Environmental Society of Ethiopia as a coordinator and secretary-general; PO Box 34793, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 251/91-101-5570, .
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In addressing land degradation, a number of watershed rehabilitation programs have been carried out in Ethiopia. This study aims to financially quantify watershed rehabilitation in a way that incorporates major costs and returns. We also construct scenarios to portray cost-benefit information about the future. The data were obtained from a physical survey and supplemented with secondary sources. Total cost and return values for the watersheds were compared monetarily through cost-benefit analysis and these values were extrapolated to the future. The results indicate that the benefit was Ethiopian Birr 918,049 and 4,651,167 (US$73,821 and US$374,008) for the smallest and largest of the rehabilitated watersheds, respectively, while the expenditure was Birr 154,178 and 205,712 (US$17,701 and US$23,620). Under optimal management in the future, these benefits can reach up to Birr 19,334,643 and 76,699,254 (US$2,219,821 and US$8,805,884), while the costs remain the same. The results clearly indicate that investment in watershed rehabilitation may be an economically viable short-term and long-term proposition. Hence there is a strong case for sustainable management of rehabilitated watersheds in view of the very high economic benefits from the rehabilitation.

  • ecosystem services
  • Ethiopia
  • sustainable watershed management
  • watershed rehabilitation

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T.W. Yitbarek, Satishkumar Belliethathan, Masresha Fetene
Ecological Restoration Mar 2010, 28 (1) 46-55; DOI: 10.3368/er.28.1.46

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A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Watershed Rehabilitation: A Case Study in Farta Woreda, South Gondar, Ethiopia
T.W. Yitbarek, Satishkumar Belliethathan, Masresha Fetene
Ecological Restoration Mar 2010, 28 (1) 46-55; DOI: 10.3368/er.28.1.46
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