2025

Data availability

The data and metadata used in the project are available on the IG PAS repository, or could be asked to the project PI Michael Nones.

2024

Modeling best management practices to reduce future sediment yield in the Fincha watershed, Ethiopia

How can be erosion addressed in the Fincha watershed? Some answers are now presented in this new article.  

Evaluating Management Practices to Reduce Sediment Yield in the Fincha Watershed, Ethiopia

The impact of Management Practices on reducing sediment erosion was investigated in a chapter recently published by Springer as part of the book "Advances in Hydraulic Research".

Modeling the impact of historical and future land use land cover changes on the hydrological response of an Ethiopian watershed

The Fincha watershed hydrology and its response to changes in LULC have been analysed in this new article.  

2023

SWAT model-based quantification of the impact of Land Use Land Cover change on sediment yield in the Fincha watershed, Ethiopia

In this new article, SWAT was used to investigate sediment yield across the Fincha Watershed.  

40th IAHR World Congress

Additional project results were presented at the 40th IAHR World Congress in Vienna (Austria), in June 2023.

The conference paper can be found here.

Impact of historical and future Land Use Land Cover Changes on the hydrological response of the Fincha watershed, Ethiopia

A new preprint discussing the impact of LULC on the hydrological response of the Fincha watershed is now available here.

2022

Trends of Historical Land Use Land Cover Changes and Future Predictions for Ethiopia's Fincha Watershed

New results were presented at the 4th Euro-Mediterranean Conference for Environmental Integration (EMCEI-2022), which was held in Sousse (Tunisia) on 1-4 November, 2022.

Past and Future Land Use/Land Cover Changes in the Ethiopian Fincha Sub-Basin

In this new work, just published on Land, the authors investigated past trends of LULC over the study area, using them to forecast how the situation will look like in the next 30 years.

The full article can be found here.

39th IAHR World Congress

The results of the first two years of the project were presented at the 39th IAHR World Congress in Granada (Spain), in June 2022.

The conference paper can be found here.

IAHR Hydrolink

The project and its initial results were disseminated via the Hydrolink magazine, the primary communication media of the IAHR community, as a part of an Issue fully dedicated to Africa.

See the full article at https://www.iahr.org/library/infor?pid=20573 

2021

Hydrological Responses to Land Use Land Cover Changes in the Fincha’a Watershed, Ethiopia

The hydrological response of the Ethiopia Fincha’a watershed to LULCC that happened during 25 years was investigated, comparing the situation in three reference years: 1994, 2004, and 2018. The information was derived from Landsat sensors, respectively Landsat 5 TM, Landsat 7 ETM, and Landsat 8 OLI/TIRS. The analysis of LULCC revealed that forest decreased by 20.0% between the years 1994–2004, and it decreased by 11.8% in the following period 2004–2018. Such decline in areas covered by forest is correlated to an expansion of cultivated land by 16.4% and 10.81%, respectively. The modelling results pointed out a general increase of average water flow, both during dry and wet periods, as a consequence of a shift of land coverage from forest and grass towards settlements and build-up areas. 

See additional analyses on a research paper published in Land-MDPI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land10090916

Review on LULCC in Ethiopian basins

Land Use Land Cover (LULC) changes analysis is one of the most useful methodologies to understand how the land was used in the past years, what types of detections are to be expected in the future, as well as the driving forces and processes behind these changes. In Ethiopia, Africa, the rapid variations of LULC observed in the last decades are mainly due to population pressure, resettlement programs, climate change, and other human- and nature-induced driving forces, as pointed out in the review paper published on Land-MDPI: https://doi.org/10.3390/land10060585 

Preliminary results

Some results of the project were presented during the 1st IAHR Online Forum in July 2021.

2020

First results

First results of the project were presented during the 1st IAHR Young Professionals Congress in mid-November 2020.