@article{3170, author = "Gezahegn Gebre and Abiyot Legese and Senbetie Toma and Mathewos Agize", abstract = "The study was done to explore the constraints of traditional agro-forestry practice in sustainable land management. The research design is concurrent triangulation. The 140 households were determined using Cochran method. The respondents were selected by systematic sampling techniques. The data were analyzed using SPSS software version 20.0 excels micro software 2007 and Shanon and Soresson induces. The results indicated 108 plant species were identified from home gardens. The mean value of Simpson index is 0.35. This indicated the highest abundant and the evenness of the plant species in study area. Finally the Sorenson coefficient of similarity is 38.8%. The result of analyzed species diversity in three different agro-ecology indicated non significant difference. Traditional agro-forestry provides food, cash generate, medicinal value, keep soil fertility, cultural asset, moderate environment and construction. The most common threatening challenges were land shortage, degradation, soil erosion, mass movement, flooding hazards, bacterial wilt of enset and coffee berry wilt. Finally implementation of policy and strategic plan, the mitigation and adoption of climate change, preventing bacterial wilt and soil erosion by using indigenous knowledge were opportunities of traditional agro-forestry practices in the study area. ", issn = "23191473", journal = "IJAIR", keywords = "Agro-forestry;Dawuro;Diversity;Land Management", month = "March", number = "5", pages = "462-481", title = "{T}he {R}ole of {T}raditional {A}gro {F}orestry {P}ractices for {S}ustainable {L}and {M}anagement in {M}araka {D}istrict of {D}awuro {Z}one, {S}outhern {E}thiopia", volume = "8", year = "2020", }