What to Plant Where in Ethiopia - version for practitioners version v.2024.07.p

PATSPO project , CIFOR-ICRAF, Addis Ababa & Nairobi, July 2024

Introduction

What to Plant Where in Ethiopia allows users to select suitable tree species and their best matching seed sources at any planting location in Ethiopia. It further gives contact information to order the seed. The seed sources included in the tool are all from Ethiopia’s National Tree Seed Source Registry, which is developed with support from the PATSPO project.

The location of the planting site is selected in the 'Planting location' TAB.

The TAB of 'Select species' chooses the species for the 'Source ranking', 'Source locations' and 'Source details' TABs.

The recommended procedure of using the tool is to access the TABs from left to right sequentially:

- Step 1: Select the planting location (Planting location TAB)

- Step 2: Select the species (Select species TAB)

- Step 3: See available seed sources and their rankings (Source ranking and Source locations TABs)

- Step 4: See information for the best matching seed source(s) (Source details TAB)

Details on the methodology that was used to develop the App are given in the version for researchers of this App.

Planting location

Select the planting location by clicking on the map below. Colours on the map correspond to planting zones.

Selected planting location: coordinates and planting zone

LON	LAT	Planting.Zone	Potential.Natural.Vegetation
38.8137	9.0151	DAF	Dry evergreen Afromontane forest

Select species

Select a use category

Select a subcategory of uses

Select a species

Seed source ranking

Selected species (select species from the 'Select species' TAB)

Acacia decurrens

Select a scenario (baseline or 2050s)

Sources are ranked by environmental distance. In case of ties, geographical distance (Distance.km) is used as tie-breaker.

Source.ID	Location	Planting.Zone	Rank	Environmental.distance	Distance.km
PL_site	(Planting site)	DAF	0	0.0000	0.000
WELM_Acadec	Welmera	DAF	1	0.0509	29.713
GONC_Acadec	Goncha Siso Enebse	DAF	2	0.0956	220.641
GUZA_Acadec	Guzamn	DAF	3	0.1084	192.790
MICH_Acadec	Michakel	DAF	4	0.1235	210.025
HULE_Acadec	Hulet Ej Enese	DAF	5	0.1273	253.200

Versions

Version v.2024.07.p

- Rectified previous errors in the calculation of the AriditySeason (Maximum Climatological Water Deficit) layers where too low precipitation values were used previously for future climates.

Version v.2023.11.p

- Added a hyperlink to the Seed Information Database from the source details.

Version v.2023.10.p

- Changed the environmental variables to match the default variables of the researchers' version (v.2023.10.r)

- Various changes in the text to further clarify the methodology.

Version v.2023.09.p

- Future climate data were compiled from the full set of GCMs available from WorldClim 2.1.

- Quartile estimates were included, corresponding to 25% percentiles for variables with extremes calculated as minima, and 75% percentiles for variables with extremes calculated as maxima.

Version v.2022.12.p

- Seed sources were selected as a subset from a Seed Sources Database (SSDB) created in 2022.

- Information on bioclimatic, soil and other environmental characteristics were collated for the selected seed sources.

- Species links to the Agroforestry Species Switchboard were standardized with the current names in the 2022 update of the Switchboard.

- Included a list of all species besides lists for use categories.

Version 1.0 (2021)

- First openly released version.

Credits

App developed by Roeland KINDT, Abrham ABIYU, Ian DAWSON, Lars GRAUDAL, Jens-Peter LILLESØ, Yigardu MENGESHA, Søren MOESTRUP, Carsten NØRGARD and Paulo VAN BREUGEL.

Methods used to develop the App are documented in the version for researchers of this App.

Planting zones correspond to the atlas of Potential Vegetation of Ethiopia .

Seed Information is available via a hyperlink to the Seed Information Database (SID) that was accessed on 13-SEP-2023. We appreciate the assistance provided by Chid Gilovitz and Simone Pedrini to access this information.

This App is an output from the Provision of Adequate Tree Seed Portfolio in Ethiopia (PATSPO) project that is supported by Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative through the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ethiopia. Additional funding came from the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees, and Agroforestry , supported by the CGIAR Trust Fund, and from Germany's Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development via support to the Transforming the Quality of Tree Planting partnership platform.

Suggested citation:

Kindt R, Abiyu A, Dawson IK, Graudal L, Lillesø J-PB, Mengesha Y, Moestrup S, Nørgard C, van Breugel P. 2024. What To Plant Where in Ethiopia. Version for practitioners 2024.07.p. Nairobi and Addis Ababa: World Agroforestry. Accessed via https://www.worldagroforestry.org/output/what-to-plant-where-in-ethiopia on DD-MM-YYYY.