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ItemVulnerability of Smallholder Farmers to Climate Change and Adaptation Practices in South Ari Woreda, South Omo Zone( 2019-10-10) Kassahun YemaneClimate change affects all countries, but disproportionately affects poor people with less adaptive capacity. Hence, adaptation plays a great role in alleviating climate impact. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to examine the vulnerability of smallholder farmers to climate change in the South Ari woreda. The study sought to analyze climate variability over the past 33 years, to assess current vulnerability and to evaluate adaptation practices implemented in the woreda. To gather reliable data, five kebeles were selected from the woreda using simple random sampling techniques. 363 household heads were selected using a systematic sampling method. Besides, primary data was collected from FGDs, key informants and through field observations. Trend analysis and the chi-square test were used to analyze quantitative data, and qualitative data was analyzed by categorizing data into themes. The linear trend analysis shows an increasing trend of rainfall and temperature in the study area. Integrated vulnerability analysis approach results show that the three sub-agro ecology zones of the woreda are vulnerable to climate variability in different ways. Although it is not enough to reduce their vulnerability, about 26% of household heads tried to implement some climate change adaptation. The chi-square test result shows that age, level of education, income diversity, number of contacts with developmental agents and access to climate information have a significant relation with the implementation of adaptation practices in the study area. Hence, implementation of adaptation practices must be enhanced by the concerned body to reduce vulnerability of the community to climate change and climate variability.
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ItemA History of Tourism and Tourism Resources in Arba Minch and its Surroundings, Southern Ethiopia( 2019-10-10) Temesgen Woza WonberaThis paper investigates “A History of Tourism and Tourism Resources in Arba Minch and its surroundings, Southern Ethiopia, from 1967 to 2008/9”. is conducting an inspection study accordingly to make vulnerable the gradation to which Arba Minch, similar throughout the manuscript and its surroundings, has overflowing tourist attraction sites. The area, Arba Minch, is a tourist destination in Ethiopia that has been acknowledged as having considerable potential for tourism development. This study extracts that the reason that no possible research work has been carried out in the area before, and because most of these attractions are not made public to domestic and foreign visitors exaggerated the development of tourism in the area. The paper also highlights the development of tourism in the study area, its problems, and solutions. It investigates the beginning of tourism in Arba Minch and its surrounding area and its historical development. Furthermore, this study attempts to show the distribution of tourism benefits in the area and also points out the major tourism-related problems and appropriate solutions. It also shows how the eviction of both Guji and Kore communities from their residence land in the Park affected their livelihoods. It recommends the safeguarding of valuable tourism resources in Arba Minch can be used as a source of income that would be generated by tourists visiting the destination. Due to its location in the Rift Valley Region, Arba Minch is a naturally exceptional area where many potential tourism sites are found. Fatefully, findings of this work unearth, such as other crucial tourism sites, Arba Minch and its surrounding barely managed to produce good income.