Methods
Study area
The study was conducted in two landscape restoration sites of Gudoberet
(in Basona-worena district, North Shewa zone of Amhara region) and
Lemisuticho (in Doyogena districts, Kembata Tembaro zone of SNNP–
Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples (Fig. 1). Landscape
restoration practices were upped in these sites for the last 6-10 years.
The local Bureaus of Agriculture and communities play an important role
in the implementation and management of restoration practices in the
Gudoberet site while an NGO called Inter Aide France and local
communities lead those practices in the Lemisuticho sites (Doyogena). In
these two sites, the Alliance of Bioversity International and the
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) provide research
support ranging from planning, implementation to evidence generation.