Shifts in farming systems on land-use land-cover and biosphere reserve management in Southwestern Ethiopia

Sustainable agricultural development and land-use systems require the elaboration design of proper options, also land use changes for agro-ecosystems. This project aimed to assess shifts options major farming systems, if how biosphere reserve establishment its management have changed natural landscape components, and/or forest coverage Yayo Coffee Forest Biosphere Reserve. Focus group discussions, satellite image analysis, secondary information personal observations were used collect data in four (4) kebeles (PAs) reserve. The result revealed that areas showed trends increment as 5650.11ha, 6562.08ha 6949.62ha 1986, 2006 2016 respectively, other green vegetation somewhat increased from 1778.76ha 1986 1944.54ha 2016. Farmlands others decreased 2314.35ha 849.24ha Areas 80,000 69,100 hectares between 2007 2016, while plantation coffee 14,720 34,100 same periods. such woodlots, live fences plantations been compensate services address local communities’ needs. Therefore, this study concludes modifications ecosystem functioning intensify certain provisioning services, example implementation woodlots resulted declining agro-biodiversity services. recommends sustainable diversified need be considered changes.