Abstract
This study examines the influence of livestock holding on households’ decision to participation in wood fuel production from dryland forest. Survey data were collected from 160 households in Dire Dawa administration council of Oromia state, Ethiopia following a snowball sampling technique. Binary logit regression model and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the impacts of livestock holding on households’ decision to participation in fuelwood production from dryland forest. The estimation of the model indicates that livestock and size of arable land holdings were significant factors in determining households’ participation in wood fuel production. An increase of one unit in livestock holding leads to the probability of participation in wood fuel production of households decreased by 0.118 units while the land size has a negative impact on the participation of wood fuel production. When land size increased by 1 hectare the probability of participating in wood fuel production will be decreased by 0.9 units. The mean of wood fuel producers’ livestock holding was about 5.84 TLU and 10.67 for non- wood fuel producer which indicates the negative correlation of livestock holding and wood fuel production. Thus the study concludes that households with large livestock less likely to participate in wood fuel extraction from dryland forest. Promoting sustainable livestock production with appropriate grazing plan can have a significant role in dryland forest conservation and sustainable forest management.
Highlights
Despite numerous importance of livestock production, it can cause habitat destruction and structural change of vegetation with many undesirable consequences especially in dryland forest and woodland ecosystems if sustainable management of dryland forest and woodland not implemented [1]
Increased in number of livestock grazing in dryland forest can cause change in structure of vegetation while reducing biodiversity accompanied by increasing soil erosion but the extent of occurrence of those conditions depends on the pattern and intensity of grazing managed grazing plan with appropriate soil and water conservation measure will reduce human-induced negative impacts on dryland [2]
About 75% of Ethiopia’s land mass considered as dry land which is characterized by a shortage of rainfall and high temperature according to the report of [11, 22]
Summary
Despite numerous importance of livestock production, it can cause habitat destruction and structural change of vegetation with many undesirable consequences especially in dryland forest and woodland ecosystems if sustainable management of dryland forest and woodland not implemented [1]. The objectives of this study are to identify the impacts of household livestock holdings in wood fuel production from dryland forest in the study area. In order to prepare and implement dryland forest management deep knowledge on the relationship between livestock and forest extraction play a significant role in one hand and there is no strong evidence on livestock holdings impact on dryland forest in the study area on the other hand. To fill those gaps conducting this study is so urgent and critical. Three livelihood strategies were employed in and around dryland forest ecosystem pastoralism agro-pastoralism and inactive agriculture with wood fuel
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