Bale Project Area (in Oromia National Regional State)

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Supporting Conservation of Farmers’ Seed Varieties

13 Feb, 13

What are Farmers’ Seed Varieties? Farmers’ seed varieties are crop species, which are developed by natural processes, by adaptation to the natural and cultural environment in which they live. Farmers have selected, domesticated and put in use their crop varieties

Media briefing

12 Feb, 13

Community Based Agro-biodiversity Management (CBAM), MELCA-Ethiopia Program
Recently, a group of filmmakers was at Ejere kebele, in Lome woreda, Eastern Showa Zone of Oromia Regional State. The group had a visit to the kebele to document the story of how

Sheka Forest Biosphere Reserve

11 Feb, 13

Sheka Forest Biosphere Reserve Sheka Forest is found in Sheka zone of the SNNPR. It covers a unique bio-geographic unit in the area, extending from cold and very wet highlands bordering Illubabor zone of Oromia regional state and Kafa zone

Melca Sheka brochure

11 Feb, 13

Why and when did MELCA start a project in Sheka
Sheka is one of the few places in Ethiopia endowed with immense cultural and biological resources. A significant proportion of the few remaining afro-montane forest coverage of the country is

Forests of Sheka

10 May, 11

This book is the first product of MELCA Mahiber's engagement in research and advocacy in sustainable management of environment and conservation of indigenous knowledge and culture. click her to download the pdf file

Bale Project Area (in Oromia National Regional State)

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The Bale project office is the eldest branch office for MELCA. It was opened in 2005, just a few months after the establishment of MELCA and the opening of its head office in Addis Ababa.

Bale was chosen to be MELCA’s project area firstly because of its rich biodiversity and indigenous culture as well as its endemicity. The area is not only rich in biodiversity, but is also known for its variety of representative ecosystems starting from grassland through alpine climate to cloud forest.

Although the zone has a long history of an area designated as protected area since the reign of Emperor Hailesillasie, there has been an increasing pressure on the conservation of the area and its biodiversity due to expansion of agriculture, towns and pastoralists.

Hence MELCA was interested in opening its first branch office in Bale with the aim of contributing to the effort by different stakeholders to conserve the biodiversity and culture of the people from being eroded by the factors mentioned as threats.

To that end MELCA is currently undertaking different programs in the zone including Environmental Education (SEGNI), which mainly involves school children, Environmental Advocacy, which focuses on different stakeholders including government organs, soil and water conservation activities, and integration of Population, Health and Environment (PHE). Moreover, Participatory Forest Management (PFM) is also implemented around Bale project area. The first Participatory 3 Dimensional Modeling (P3DM), which is part of MELCA’s participatory mapping program, has also been done in Bale.

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