Objective

This report was created at the request of the Government of Ethiopia to the United Nations Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (UN-REDD+) program. The government requested the report to aid in assessing the contribution that their forest ecosystems have on the Ethiopian national income. The report accomplished this by assessing these three topics:

• Value added of the forestry sector: the contribution of forest ecosystem goods and services to the GDP of Ethiopia attributed to the forestry industry in the Ethiopian System of National Accounts (ESNA)
• Contribution of forest ecosystems to other sectors: contribution of forest ecosystem goods and services to the GDP attributed to other industries in the ESNA
• Non-market benefits: contribution of forest ecosystems to non-market income in Ethiopia

Our Role

Our Principal, Rob Smith, was lead author on this report.