LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE AS SUB-INDICATOR FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL-1

Land degradation as a result of land use and land cover change is a serious problem in Ethiopia, owing to a lack of a suitable land use strategy and a workable land use plan. Understanding land use and land cover change is critical for determining the rate of land improvement and/or degradation for achieving Sustainable Development Goal -15, which refers to making land fit for human life. Forest landscape restoration interventions have been underway for the past two decades as a result of community and government initiatives that have aided in the achievement of SDG-15. To examine the change in land use and land cover from 2000 to 2015, a study was undertaken utilising secondary data from trend Earth Global Observation of national data. The entire land mass of Ethiopia is 1,151,167.7 km2, and forest land scape restoration actions have improved or restored 18,051.8 km2 (1.61 percent), while 1,096,220.4 km2 (97.90 percent) remained stable, and 5,443.4 km2 (0.49 percent) was degraded. The result also showed that tree cover and built-up area grew, whereas crops, wet areas, grassland, and other land decreased proportionately. The findings of our research have policy implications for establishing and implementing proper land use planning in order to address the rapid trend of expanding urbanisation as a driver of land use and land cover change that has been observed in the last fifteen years. Increased urbanisation causes land degradation, which reduces the national effort to reverse land degradation and prevent desertification through forest landscape restoration initiatives.

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