Matiwos Bekele
Biographic Data
| ID | 8956179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matiwos Bekele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matiwos |
| FAMILY NAME | Bekele |
| SIGNATURE | BEKELE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bonn |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-0876-7259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Restoration policies and the ‘travelling model’ of the Great Green Wall in Ethiopia's Tigray region
The Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative was launched in 2007 as a Pan-African initiative to plant a belt of trees stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. The project aims to restore 100 million hectares of land and create 10 million jobs by 2030. However, implementation is far behind schedule due to political instability, delayed funding, fragmented governance, and other challenges. This paper examines the politics of GGW implementation i…
From trees to carbon assets
Forest landscape restoration is increasingly linked to global carbon markets as governments seek to mobilize climate finance. The article analyses how the management of restoration is restructured around the possibility of future carbon credits before these incomes are realized. Drawing on comparative fieldwork in two restoration contexts in Ethiopia, Tigray’s land use systems that build upon exclosures and the Yayo Coffee Biosphere Reserve (YCBR…
‘Green’ jobs, invisible workers
Restoring forest landscapes requires extensive human labour in ecologies across the globe. The labour underpinning restoration efforts is increasingly labelled as ‘green’ jobs. Despite prominent narratives of ‘green’ jobs to simultaneously address climate change and unemployment, the actual forest restoration labour in the global South remains largely invisible. We examined the government-led Green Legacy Initiative and the regional African Great…
Expanding political forests
The Ethiopian government has made significant efforts to promote reforestation and landscape restoration for many years. However, rural communities have been reluctant to participate in these state-led initiatives. Instead, farmers prefer to plant trees on their own land, primarily using exotic species. This apparent paradox raises questions about the motivations and consequences of on-farm tree planting. Our study examines tree-planting practice…
Resistance as agency
Forest landscape restoration programs play a vital role in addressing environmental degradation; however, when implemented through top-down approaches, they may encounter resistance from local communities, reflecting complex social dynamics that shape both ecological and social outcomes. This qualitative study explores participation and resistance dynamics in Tigray, Ethiopia, through semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, and parti…
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Resistance as agency
Forest landscape restoration programs play a vital role in addressing environmental degradation; however, when implemented through top-down approaches, they may encounter resistance from local communities, reflecting complex social dynamics that shape both ecological and social outcomes. This qualitative study explores participation and resistance dynamics in Tigray, Ethiopia, through semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions, and parti…
Restoration policies and the ‘travelling model’ of the Great Green Wall in Ethiopia's Tigray region
The Great Green Wall (GGW) initiative was launched in 2007 as a Pan-African initiative to plant a belt of trees stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. The project aims to restore 100 million hectares of land and create 10 million jobs by 2030. However, implementation is far behind schedule due to political instability, delayed funding, fragmented governance, and other challenges. This paper examines the politics of GGW implementation i…
From trees to carbon assets
Forest landscape restoration is increasingly linked to global carbon markets as governments seek to mobilize climate finance. The article analyses how the management of restoration is restructured around the possibility of future carbon credits before these incomes are realized. Drawing on comparative fieldwork in two restoration contexts in Ethiopia, Tigray’s land use systems that build upon exclosures and the Yayo Coffee Biosphere Reserve (YCBR…
‘Green’ jobs, invisible workers
Restoring forest landscapes requires extensive human labour in ecologies across the globe. The labour underpinning restoration efforts is increasingly labelled as ‘green’ jobs. Despite prominent narratives of ‘green’ jobs to simultaneously address climate change and unemployment, the actual forest restoration labour in the global South remains largely invisible. We examined the government-led Green Legacy Initiative and the regional African Great…
Expanding political forests
The Ethiopian government has made significant efforts to promote reforestation and landscape restoration for many years. However, rural communities have been reluctant to participate in these state-led initiatives. Instead, farmers prefer to plant trees on their own land, primarily using exotic species. This apparent paradox raises questions about the motivations and consequences of on-farm tree planting. Our study examines tree-planting practice…
Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (4 works) · Politics (3 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology (2 works) · African Botany and Ecology Studies (1 work) · Agroforestry (1 work) · Carbon credit (1 work) · Carbon fibers (1 work) · Climate governance (1 work)